Calendar of saints

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A calendar of saints forms a way of organising a liturgical year on the finely-granulated level of days by assigning each day to association with a saint. This calendar system, when combined with major church festivals and movable and immovable feasts, constructs a very human and personalised yet often localised way of organising the year and identifying dates. Compare Roman Missal.

Medievalists continue the old tradition of dating by saints' days: their works may appear "dated" as "The Feast of Saint Martin" or "Lammastide". Poets such as John Keats commemorate the importance of The Eve of Saint Agnes. Many children acquire baptismal or confirmational names from the saint associated with their date of birth, baptism or confirmation, and believing Eastern Orthodox Christians mark the "name day" of the saint whose name they bear with special attention.

Some traditional dates (Roman Catholic unless otherwise indicated) include:

Table of contents

1 January
2 Febraury
3 March
4 April
5 May
6 June
7 July
8 August
9 September
10 October
11 November
12 December
13 Movable Feasts

January

January 1: Mary, Mother of God
January 5: Saint Angela of Foligno
January 6: Epiphany
January 7: Saint Raymond of PeÃÂ±afort
January 17: Saint Anthony the Great
January 18: The Confession of Saint Peter
January 21: Saint Agnes
January 22: Saint Vincent
January 25: The Conversion of Saint Paul

Febraury

February 4: Saint Ansgar
February 10: Saint Charalampos (Eastern Orthodox Church)
February 14: Saint Valentine

March

April

May

May 3: Saint Philip and Saint James
May 14: Saint Matthias the Apostle
May 15: Saint Dymphna and Saint Gerebernus
May 19: Saint Dunstan

June

July

July 3: Saint Thomas the Apostle
July 11: Saint Benedict
July 13: Saint Teresa de los Andes
July 15: Saint Swithun (Anglican Church),Saint Vladimir the Great (Eastern Orthodox churches)
July 22: Saint Mary Magdalene
July 25: Saint James the Great
July 31: Saint Ignatius of Loyola