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8: A Brief Sanctoral Calendar

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    Moveable Solemnities:

    Holy Week (Palmarum through the Triduum)

    The Resurrection of Our Lord

    The Ascension of Our Lord

    The Day of Pentecost

    The Holy Trinity

    November

    30 — St. Andrew (Feast)

    December

    4 — St. John of Damascus (Memorial)

    6 — St. Nicholas of Myra (Memorial)

    7 — St. Ambrose of Milan (Memorial)

    8 — The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity)

    13 — St. Lucia (Memorial)

    20 — Katharina von Bora Luther (Memorial)

    21 — St. Thomas (Feast)

    25 — The Nativity of Our Lord (Solemnity)

    26 — St. Stephen, Proto-Martyr (Feast)

    27 — St. John (Feast)

    28 — The Holy Innocents (Feast)

    January

    1 — Circumcision and Name of Jesus (Solemnity)

    2 — Bl. J. K. Wilhelm Loehe (Memorial)

    6 — The Epiphany of Our Lord (Solemnity)

    10 — Ss. Basil the Great of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa (Memorial)

    15 — Ss. Philemon and Onesimus (Memorial)

    18 — The Confession of St. Peter (Feast)

    24 — St. Timothy (Memorial)

    25 — The Conversion of St. Paul (Feast)

    26 — St. Titus (Memorial)

    27 — St. John Chrysostom (Memorial)

     

    February

    2 — The Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Our Lord (Solemnity)

    5 — St. Agatha (Memorial)

    18 — Bl. Martin Luther (Memorial)

    24 — St. Matthias (Feast)

    23 — St. Polycarp of Smyrna (Memorial)

    March

    7 — Ss. Perpetua and Felicity (Memorial)

    17 — St. Patrick (Memorial)

    19 — St. Joseph (Solemnity)

    25 — The Annunciation of Our Lord (Solemnity)

    April

    6 — Bls. Matthias Grünewald, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer (Memorial)

    9 — Bl. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Memorial)

    19 — Bl. Philip Melanchthon (Memorial)

    24 — Bl. Johann Walter of Wittenberg (Memorial)

    25 — St. Mark (Feast)

    May

    1 — Ss. Philip and James the Less (Feast)

    5 — Bl. Frederick the Wise (Memorial)

    7 — Bl. Carl F. W. Walther (Memorial)

    21 — Ss. Constantine the Great and Helena (Memorial)

    31 — The Visitation of Mary (Solemnity)

    June

    2 — St. Athanasius of Alexandria (Memorial)

    11 — St. Barnabas (Feast)

    12 — The First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (Memorial)

    24 — The Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Solemnity)

    25 — The Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Memorial)

    29 — Ss. Peter and Paul (Feast)

    July

    22 — St. Mary Magdalene (Feast)

    25 — St. James the Greater (Feast)

    28 — Bl. Johann Sebastian Bach (Memorial)

    29 — Ss. Mary, Martha, Lazarus of Bethany (Memorial)

    August

    1 — The Seven Maccabee Brothers

    10 — St. Lawrence (Memorial)

    15 — The Heaven-Going (Himmelfahrt) of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity)

    19 — St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Memorial)

    24 — St. Bartholomew (Feast)

    27 — St. Monica (Memorial)

    28 — St. Augustine of Hippo (Memorial)

    29 — The Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist (Memorial)

    September

    3 — St. Gregory the Great (Memorial)

    8 — The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity)

    14 — Holy Cross Day (Feast)

    21 — St. Matthew (Feast)

    29 — Ss. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and All Angels (Feast)

    Solemnity: day of highest rank related to our Lord, His Mother, His Guardian, and John the Baptist,

    preceded by a vigil

    Feast: day related to our Lord’s apostles

    Memorial: lesser commemoration of saints and events

    St. = saint

    Ss. = saints

    Bl. = blessed (honorable title for commemorated individuals and events after the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession, June 25, 1530) † = mart


    8: A Brief Sanctoral Calendar is shared under a CC BY 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Chad Kendall, Patrick Bayers, Karen Calendo, Meghan Sleezer, David Rognar, Mary Zaharis, Concordia University Chicago.