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Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) was an English cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Sh…
Christian feast day: Jeremy Taylor (Anglican Communion)
John Berchmans, SJ was a Belgian Jesuit scholastic and is revered as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Christian feast day: John Berchmans
Saint Junian was a 6th-century Christian hermit and abbot. He was the founder of Mairé, or Mariacum, Abbey at Mairé-Levescault in Poitou, France and is the patron saint of Poitou p…
Christian feast day: Junian of Mairé
Mark of Aviano, born Carlo Domenico Cristofori was an Italian Capuchin friar. In 2003, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
Christian feast day: Blessed Marco d'Aviano
Maximus the Confessor, also spelled Maximos, otherwise known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople, was a Christian monk, theologian, and Neoplatonic scholar.
Christian feast day: Maximus the Confessor
Nerses IV the Gracious was Catholicos of Armenia from 1166 to 1173.
Christian feast day: Nerses Glaietsi (Catholic Church)
Pope Pontian was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 230 to 28 September 235. In 235, during the persecution of Christians in the reign of the Emperor Maximinus Thrax, Pontian was arre…
Christian feast day: Pope Pontian
Radegund was a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. She is the patroness saint of several churches in France and England and…
Christian feast day: Radegunde
Wihtberht or Wigbert born in Wessex around 675, was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk and a missionary and disciple of Boniface who travelled with the latter in Frisia and northern a…
Christian feast day: Wigbert
August 12 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 14
Christian feast day: August 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
This is a list of public holidays in the Central African Republic
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Central African Republic from France in 1960.
International Left Handers Day is an international day observed annually on August 13 to celebrate the uniqueness and differences of left-handed individuals. The day was first obse…
International Lefthanders Day (International)
Since the December 2010 revolution in Tunisia and protests across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) began, Tunisian women have played an unprecedented part in the protests. H…
Women's Day, commemorates the enaction of Tunisian Code of Personal Status in 1956. (Tunisia)
Organ donation is defined as the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor…
World Organ Donation Day
Arnold (Arnoul) of Soissons or Arnold or Arnulf of Oudenburg is a saint of the Catholic Church, the patron saint of hop-pickers, Belgian brewers.
Christian feast day: Arnold of Soissons
Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia was a Spanish Dominican priest and missionary. After teaching at the Colegio de Santo Tomas in Manila, he went to Japan in 1623, where he ministered inco…
Christian feast day: Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia
Eusebius of Rome, the founder of the church on the Esquiline Hill in Rome that bears his name, is listed in the Roman Martyrology as one of the saints venerated on 14 August.
Christian feast day: Eusebius of Rome
Fachtna of Rosscarbery, known also as Fachanan, was an Irish Christian leader known as the founder of the monastery of Rosscarbery, County Cork. He died around 600.
Christian feast day: Fachtna of Rosscarbery
Jonathan Myrick Daniels was an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist. In 1965, he was killed by Tom Coleman, a highway worker and part-time deputy sheriff, in Hayneville, …
Christian feast day: Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
Maria Elisabetta Renzi, O.L.S. was an Italian Catholic Religious Sister who, in 1839, founded the Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows, an international religious institute of women dedi…
Christian feast day: Maria Elisabetta Renzi
The Martyrs of Otranto, also known as Saints Antonio Primaldo and his Companions, were 813 inhabitants of Otranto, Salento, Apulia, in southern Italy, who were killed on 14 August …
Christian feast day: Martyrs of Otranto
A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. The term is most often used for United States …
National Navajo Code Talkers Day is a holiday in the United States honoring Navajo code talkers in the military.
Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592, and is celebrated on 14 August.
Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592.
Maximilian Maria Kolbe, OFM Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr. He volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in …
Christian feast day: Maximilian Kolbe