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Solanus Casey, OFMCap was an American Catholic priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was known as a healer and for his abilities as a spiritual counselor, but especially…
Christian feast day: Blessed Solanus Casey
Fabius was a martyr of the Roman Empire from the ancient Mauretania, venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. The memory of the liturgy is scheduled on …
Christian feast day: Fabius
Giustino Sebastiano Pasquale de Jacobis, CM was an Italian Catholic bishop and member of the Congregation of the Mission who served as Apostolic Vicar of Abyssinia and the Titular …
Christian feast day: Giustino de Jacobis
Ignatius of Loyola, venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society…
Christian feast day: Ignatius of Loyola
Neot was an English monk. Born in the first half of the ninth century, he lived as a monk at Glastonbury Abbey. He preferred to perform his religious devotions privately, and he la…
Christian feast day: Neot
July 30 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Aug. 1
Christian feast day: July 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Germanus of Auxerre was a western Roman clergyman who was bishop of Autissiodorum in Late Antique Gaul. He abandoned a career as a high-ranking government official to devote his fo…
Christian feast day: Germanus of Auxerre
Helena of Skövde was a Swedish saint and patron to what is now Västergötland, in southwest Sweden, where she was born. Her father might have been a duke named Guthorm. Helena was w…
Christian feast day: Helena of Skövde
The Baháʼí calendar used in the Baháʼí Faith is a solar calendar consisting of nineteen months and four or five intercalary days, with new year at the moment of Northern spring equ…
Earliest day on which the Feast of Kamál (Perfection) can fall, while August 1 is the latest; observed on the first…
Trinity term is the third and final term of the academic year at the University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, Canterbury Christ Church University, and some private schools in …
End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England)
Sovereignty Restoration Day is a national holiday of the former Hawaiian Kingdom celebrated on July 31 and still commemorated by Native Hawaiians in the state of Hawaii. It honors …
Lā Hae Hawaiʻi Day (Hawaii, United States), and its related observance: Sovereignty Restoration Day (Hawaiian…
Holidays in Poland are regulated by the Non-working Days Act of 18 January 1951. The Act, as amended in 2010, currently defines fourteen public holidays.
Treasury Day (Poland)
Heroes' Day or National Heroes' Day may refer to a number of commemorations of national heroes in different countries and territories. It is often held on the birthday, or the deat…
Warriors' Day (Malaysia)
There are several public holidays in Azerbaijan. Public holidays were regulated in the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR for the first time on 19 May 1921. They are now regulated …
Azerbaijani Language and Alphabet Day (Azerbaijan)
Abgar V, called Ukkāmā, was an Arab King of Osroene with his capital at Edessa and described as "king of the Arabs".
Christian feast day: Abgar V of Edessa (Syrian Church)
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian…
Christian feast day: Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori
Udham Singh was an Indian revolutionary belonging to Ghadar Party and HSRA, best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of the Punjab in British In…
Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh (Haryana and Punjab, India)
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 (Lebanon)
PLA Day, also known as Army Day, is a professional military holiday celebrated annually by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the military of China, on 1 August. It commemorates t…
Armed Forces Day (China) or Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army (People's Republic of China)
Barbados is an island nation in the Caribbean located in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and is the southern and easternmost island of the …
Emancipation Day is commemorated in many parts of the former British Empire, which marks the day the Slavery Abolition…
Æthelwold of Winchester was Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984 and one of the leaders of the tenth-century monastic reform movement in Anglo-Saxon England.
Christian feast day: Æthelwold of Winchester
Bernard Vu Van Due, was a Vietnamese convert to Catholicism. He became a priest and worked as a missionary in the country for several decades. He was arrested and beheaded in 1838,…
Christian feast day: Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name…
Christian feast day: Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder
Eusebius of Vercelli was a bishop from Sardinia and is counted a saint. Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against Arianism.
Christian feast day: Eusebius of Vercelli