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Luigi Guanella was an Italian Catholic priest who founded several religious communities. He was beatified on 25 October 1964 by Pope Paul VI and was canonized on 23 October 2011 in…
Christian feast day: Luigi Guanella
Magloire, better known as Saint Magloire of Dol, is a Breton saint. Little reliable information is known of Magloire as the earliest written sources appeared three centuries after …
Christian feast day: Magloire of Dol
Martin of Vertou (527–601) was a hermit and abbot, founder of Vertou Abbey, and the evangelist of the region around Nantes in Francia. He is sometimes known as the Apostle of the H…
Christian feast day: Martin of Vertou
Proclus of Constantinople was the Archbishop of Constantinople from 434 until his death. Renowned for his homiletic abilities, Proclus played a central role in the Nestorian contro…
Christian feast day: Proclus of Constantinople
Saint Senoch was a Taifal abbot and saint, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Tiffauges, in Poitou. He founded a monastery in 536, s…
Christian feast day: Senoch
October 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 25
Christian feast day: October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Food Day in the United States is celebrated annually on October 24 and often throughout the month. The celebration was started in 1975 by the Center for Science in the Public Inter…
Food Day (United States)
International Day of Diplomats is celebrated on 24 October every year. The first International Day of Diplomats was celebrated in Brasília on 24 October 2017 with the participation…
International Day of Diplomats
United Nations Day is an annual commemorative day, reflecting the official creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly declared …
United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the United Nations (International)
In 1972, the United Nations General Assembly decided to institute a World Development Information Day coinciding with United Nations Day on October 24. The General Assembly had the…
World Development Information Day
World Polio Day was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this inact…
World Polio Day
Bernat Calbó (or Calvó) (c. 1180 – 26 October 1243), sometimes called Bernard of Calvo, was a Catalan jurist, bureaucrat, monk, bishop, and soldier.
Christian feast day: Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo)
Canna was a sixth-century mother of saints and later a nun in south Wales, to whom two Welsh churches are dedicated.
Christian feast day: Canna
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 Carlo Gnocchi
An Armed Forces Day, alongside its branch-specific variants often referred to as Army or Soldier's Day, Navy or Sailor's Day, and Air Force or Aviator's Day, is a holiday dedicated…
Armed Forces Day (Romania)
Saints Chrysanthus and Daria were saints of the Early Christian period. Their names appear in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, an early martyrs list, and a church in their honour w…
Christian feast day: Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity)
Saints Crispin and Crispinian are the Christian patron saints of cobblers, curriers, tanners, and leather workers. They were beheaded during the reign of Diocletian; the date of th…
Christian feast day: Crispin and Crispinian
Saint Fructus was a Castilian hermit of the eighth century venerated as a saint. Christian tradition states that he had two siblings, named Valentine (Valentín) and Engratia (Engra…
Christian feast day: Fructus
Gaudentius was Bishop of Brescia from 387 until 410, and was a theologian and author of many letters and sermons. He was the successor of Philastrius.
Christian feast day: Gaudentius of Brescia
Goeznovius, also known as Goueznou, was a Cornish-born Bishop of Léon in Brittany, who is venerated as a saint in the region around Brest and the diocese of Léon. According to his …
Christian feast day: Goeznovius
María Teresa Ferragut Roig was a Spanish Roman Catholic laywoman and martyr, killed near Alzira, Valencia during the anti-clerical persecutions in Republican-controlled Spain at th…
Christian feast day: María Teresa Ferragut Roig and four of her daughters
Maurus of Pécs or Mór was the first known prelate who was born in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma between around 1029 and 1036, and bis…
Christian feast day: Maurus of Pécs
Saint Minias, also known as Minas or Miniatus, is venerated as the first Christian martyr of Florence. The church of San Miniato al Monte is dedicated to him. According to legend, …
Christian feast day: Minias of Florence
Mar, also Mor in Western Syriac, is an Aramaic word meaning "my lord". The corresponding feminine forms in Syriac are Mart and Mort for "my lady".
Christian feast day: Mar Nestorius (in the Nestorian churches)