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The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul or Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul honors the martyrdom of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Rome and is liturgically observed on 29 …
Christian feast day: Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox)
World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Coun…
World Population Day (International)
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebren…
International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, established by the U.N. in May…
Hermagoras of Aquileia is considered the first bishop of Aquileia, northern Italy. Christian tradition states that he was chosen by Mark to serve as the leader of the nascent Chris…
Christian feast day: Hermagoras and Fortunatus
Jason of Thessalonica, also known as Jason of Tarsus, was a Jewish convert and early Christian believer mentioned in the New Testament in Acts 17:5–9 and Romans 16:21.
Christian feast day: Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church)
Giovanni Gualberto was an Italian Roman Catholic abbot and the founder of the Vallumbrosan Order. Born into a noble family, Gualberto was a predictably vain individual who sought p…
Christian feast day: John Gualbert
John Jones O.F.M, also known as John Buckley, John Griffith, Godfrey Maurice, or Griffith Jones, was a Franciscan priest and martyr. He was born at Clynnog Fawr, Caernarfonshire (G…
Christian feast day: John Jones
Saint Drostan, also known as Drustan, was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Old Deer in Aberdeenshire. His relics were later translated to the church at New Aberdour and hi…
Christian feast day: Drostan
Louis Martin and Azélie-Marie "Zélie" Guérin Martin were a French Catholic couple and the parents of five nuns, including Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite canonized by the Catholic …
Christian feast day: Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin
Nabor and Felix were Christian martyrs thought to have been killed during the Great Persecution under the Roman emperor Diocletian. A tomb in Milan is believed to contain their rel…
Christian feast day: Nabor and Felix
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish bishop. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala from 1914 to 1931, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is commemora…
Christian feast day: Nathan Söderblom (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA))
Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a widow from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian traditions. Apocryphal texts relate how Ve…
Christian feast day: Veronica
Saint Viventiolus was the Archbishop of Lyon 514–523. Later canonized and venerated as a saint within the Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Lyon, France his feast Day is July 12. He …
Christian feast day: Viventiolus
July 11 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 13
Christian feast day: July 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Naadam is a traditional festival celebrated in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and Tuva, involving Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery. The festival is also locally termed "erii…
The second day of Naadam (Mongolia)
The Twelfth is an Ulster Protestant celebration held on 12 July. It celebrates the Glorious Revolution and victory of Protestant king William of Orange over Catholic king James II …
The Twelfth, also known as Orangemen's Day (Northern Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Labrador)
Abd al-Masih, born Asher ben Levi, is described as a saint and martyr in early Christianity. The name Abd al-Masih means "servant/slave of the Messiah" in Arabic.
Christian feast day: Abd-al-Masih
Abel of Tacla Haimonot was a monk at the monastery of Tacla Haimonot. He is considered a saint of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and has a feast day of July 13.
Christian feast day: Abel of Tacla Haimonot (Coptic Church)
Clelia Barbieri was an Italian Catholic and the founder of the Little Sisters of the Mother of Sorrows. She is regarded as the youngest founder of a religious congregation in the h…
Christian feast day: Clelia Barbieri
Conrad Weiser, born Johann Conrad Weiser, Jr., was a Pennsylvania German pioneer who served as an interpreter and diplomat between the Pennsylvania Colony and Native American natio…
Christian feast day: Conrad Weiser (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eugenius of Carthage was a Christian prelate unanimously elected Bishop of Carthage in 480 to succeed Deogratias. He was caught up in the disputes of his day between Arianism and m…
Christian feast day: Eugenius of Carthage
Henry II, also known as Saint Henry, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor from 1014. He died without an heir in 1024 and was the last ruler of the Ottonian line. As Duke of Bavaria, …
Christian feast day: Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Jacobus de Voragine, OP was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the Golden Legend, a collection of the legendary l…
Christian feast day: Jacobus de Voragine
Mariano de Jesús Euse Hoyos was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest ordained in 1872 for the Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos. He worked in his parish as a staunch defender of the poor …
Christian feast day: Blessed Mariano de Jesús Euse Hoyos