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Maurice was an Egyptian military leader who headed the legendary Theban Legion of Rome in the 3rd century, and is one of the favourite and most widely venerated saints of that mart…
Christian feast days: Theban Legion, including: Maurice (Western Christianity)
Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on …
Christian feast day: Blessed Bernardyna Maria Jabłońska
Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on …
Christian feast day: Blessed Elena Duglioli
Elizabeth was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah and a relative of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke. She was past normal child-bearing age …
Christian feast day: Elisabeth and Zechariah
Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on …
Christian feast day: Blessed Émilie Gamelin
Colomba Matylda Gabriel Her religious name was Janina, and she was a Ukrainian Roman Catholic professed religious. She is the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Charity. Gabriel…
Christian feast day: Blessed Colomba Gabriel
William Spenser was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.
Christian feast day: Blessed William Spenser
Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on …
Christian feast days: Blessed Crescencia Valls Espí
Blessed Anton Martin Slomšek was a Slovene Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Lavant from 1846 until his death. He served also as an author and poet as well as a st…
Christian feast day: Blessed Anton Martin Slomšek
Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on …
Christian feast days: Blessed Kaspar Stanggassinger
Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on …
Christian feast days: Blessed Luigi Tezza
Hiltrude of Liessies was a French Catholic nun and saint. She is commemorated on September 27.
Christian feast days: Hiltrude of Liessies
Amalia Abad Casasempere was a Catholic woman killed in Alcoy, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. She was born in Alcoy and was a widow and mother of two daughters, and she was ve…
Christian feast day: Amalia Abad Casasempere
Nykyta Budka was an Austro-Hungarian-born priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who lived and worked in Austria-Hungary, Canada, Poland, and the Soviet Union. In Canada, he…
Christian feast day: Nykyta Budka
Armed Forces Day in South Korea is an annual event usually celebrated on 1 October to commemorate the service of men and women in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces. The day that S…
Armed Forces Day (South Korea)
Saint Bavo of Ghent is a Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint. He exchanged a dissolute lifestyle for that of a missionary under the guidance of Saint Amand.
Christian feast day: Bavo of Ghent
Edward James was an English Catholic priest and martyr.
Christian feast day: Blessed Edward James
Saint Nicetius was a bishop of Trier, born in the latter part of the sixth century, exact date unknown; died in 563 or more probably 566.
Christian feast day: Nicetius (Roman Catholic Church)
Remigius was the Bishop of Reims and "Apostle of the Franks". On 25 December 496, he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks. The baptism, leading to about 3000 additional converts, …
Christian feast day: Remigius
Thérèse of Lisieux, religious name Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known in…
Christian feast day: Thérèse of Lisieux
A fiscal year is a one-year time interval whose beginning and end may be shifted with respect to the calendar year . In the Northern Hemisphere, the most common shifted fiscal year…
Beginning of the United States' Fiscal Year
Children's Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honour of children, whose date of observance varies by country. In 1925, International Children's Day was first procl…
Children's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Sri Lanka)
Abai was a martyr in Syria. He was killed during the reign of Shapur II. He is a saint in the Syriac Orthodox Church and his feast day is October 1. He is included in Kalendarium M…
Christian feast day: Abai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
The Intercession of the Theotokos, or the Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, is a Christian feast of the Mother of God celebrated in the Eastern Ortho…
Christian feast day: Protection/Patronage of the Theotokos (Eastern Catholic Churches)