In the cycle of the liturgical year, the Church commemorates the mysteries from the life of Christ and the feasts of Mary and the saints. The following is the Church calendar of feast days, saint memorial days, and solemnities celebrated by Catholics around the world. (Please note that some of the saint days listed here are only celebrated in some parts of the world and are no longer universal Catholic holidays.)

January

1 Mary, Mother of God

2 St. Basil the Great; St. Adalhard; Gregory Nazianzen, Doctor of the Church

3 St. Genevieve

4 Elizabeth Ann Seton

5 St. John Nepomucene Neumann; St. Simeon Stylites

6 Epiphany; Blessed André Bessette

13 St. Hilary

15 St. Paul the Hermit

17 St. Devota, St. Anthony of Egypt

19 St. Canute, St. Henry of Uppsala

20 St. Sebastian; St. Fabian

21 St. Agnes

22 St. Vincent of Saragossa

24 St. Francis de Sales

25 The Conversion of Paul the Apostle

26 St. Paula; St. Timothy; St. Titus

27 St. Angela Merici

28 St. Thomas Aquinas

31 St. John Bosco

February

1 St. Brigid

2 The Presentation of the Lord

3 St. Blaise; St. Ansgar

5 St. Agatha

6 St. Amand; St. Peter Baptist; St. Dorothy; Paul Miki and his companions

8 St. Jerome Emiliani

9 St. Apollonia

10 St. Scholastica

11 Our Lady of Lourdes

12 St. Julian the Innkeeper

14 St. Valentine; St. Cyril; St. Methodius

17 Seven Founders of the Order of Servites

21 St. Peter Damian; John Henry Newman

22 Chair of Saint Peter

23 St. Polycarp

25 St. Walburga

March

1 St. David

3 Blessed Katharine Drexel; St. Cunegund

4 St. Casimir

7 St. Perpetua; St. Felicity

8 St. John of God

9 St. Frances of Rome; St. Dominic Savio; St. Catherine of Bologna

13 St. Ansovinus

15 St. Louise de Marillac

17 St. Agricola of Avignon; St. Gertrude of Nivelles; St. Joseph of Arimathea; St. Patrick

18 St. Cyril of Jerusalem

19 St. Joseph (husband of Mary)

20 St. Cuthbert

21 St. Benedict

23 St. Toribio Alfonso Mogrovejo

25 Annunciation; St. Dismas

April

2 St. Francis of Paola

3 St. Adjutor

4 St. Isidore of Seville

5 St. Vincent Ferrer

7 St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

11 St. Gemma Galani; St. Stanislaus of Cracow

13 St. Martin I

14 St. Peter González; St. Lidwina

16 St. Benedict Joseph Labre

21 St. Anselm

23 St. George

24 St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen

25 St. Mark

27 St. Zita

28 St. Peter Chanel

29 St. Catherine of Siena

30 St. Pius V

May

1 St. Joseph the Worker

2 St. Athanasius

3 St. Philip; St. James

4 St. Florian

8 St. Plechelm

10 St. John of ávila, St. Antonius of Florence; St. Catald

12 St. Nereus; St. Achilleus; St. Pancras

13 St. Julian of Norwich

14 St. Matthias

15 St. Isidore the Farmer; St. Dymphna

16 St. John of Nepomuk, St. Honoratus, St. Brendan of Clonfert; St. Peregrine of Auxerre

18 St. John I

19 St. Dunstan; St. Ivo; St. Celestine V

20 St. Bernardino of Siena

22 St. Rita; St. Julia of Corsica

25 St. Gregory VII; St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi; St. Bede the Venerable

26 St. Philip Neri

27 St. Augustine of Canterbury

28 St. Bernard of Montjoux

29 St. Bona

30 St. Joan of Arc; St. Ferdinand

31 The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

June

1 St. Justin; St. Theobald

2 St. Marcellinus; St. Peter; St. Elmo

3 Charles Lwanga and companions; St. Kevin of Glendalough; St. Morand

5 St. Boniface

6 St. Norbert

8 St. Medard

9 St. Ephrem; St. Columba of Iona

11 St. Barnabas

13 St. Anthony of Padua

15 St. Vitus

19 St. Romuald

21 St. Aloysius Gonzaga

22 St. Paulinus of Nola; St. John Fisher; St. Thomas More; St. Nicetas

23 St. Joseph Cafasso

24 The Birth of St. John the Baptist

27 St. Cyril of Alexandria

28 St. Irenaeus

29 Solemnity of St. Peter and St. Paul

30 First Martyrs of the Church of Rome

July

1 Blessed Junipero Serra

3 St. Thomas

4 St. Elizabeth of Portugal

5 St. Anthony Zaccaria

6 St. Maria Goretti

7 St. Cyril; St. Methodius

8 St. Kilian

11 St. Benedict II

12 St. John Gualbert

14 Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha; St. Camillus de Lellis

15 St. Bonaventure; St. Swithun; St. Vladimir

16 Our Lady of Mount Carmel

19 St. Justa; St. Rufina

21 St. Lawrence of Brindisi

22 St. Mary Magdalene

23 St. Bridget of Sweden

25 St. James the Greater

26 St. Joachim and St. Anne (parents of Mary)

27 St. Pantaleon

29 St. Martha; St. Olaf

30 St. Peter Chrysologus

31 St. Ignatius of Loyola

August

1 St. Alphonsus de Liguori; St. Friard

2 St. Eusebius of Vercelli

3 St. Hippolytus

4 St. John Vianney

5 Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major; St. Addai

6 The Transfiguration of the Lord

7 Pope St. Sixtus II and his companions; St. Cajetan

8 St. Dominic

10 St. Lawrence

13 St. Pontian; St. Hippolytus

14 St. Maximilian Kolbe

15 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

16 St. Stephen of Hungary; St. Roch

18 St. Jane Frances de Chantal

19 St. John Eudes; St. Sebald

20 St. Bernard of Clairvaux

21 St. Pius X

22 Queenship of Mary

23 St. Rose of Lima

24 St. Bartholomew; St. Ouen

25 St. Joseph Calasanctius; St. Genesius the Actor

27 St. Monica

28 St. Augustine of Hippo; St. Moses the Ethiopian

29 The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

31 St. Raymond Nonnatus

September

1 St. Fiacre; St. Giles

3 St. Gregory I (the Great)

7 St. Gratis of Aosta

8 Birth of Mary; St. Hadrian

9 St. Peter Claver

10 St. Nicholas Tolentine

11 St. Hyacinth

13 St. John Chrysostom

14 Triumph of the Cross

15 Our Lady of Sorrows

16 St. Cornelius; St. Cyprian; St. Ludmilla

17 St. Robert Bellarmine; St. Hildegard of Bingen

18 St. Joseph of Cupertino

19 St. Januarius

20 Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and their companions

21 St. Matthew

22 St. Phocas

23 St. Adamnan

26 St. Cosmas; St. Damian

27 St. Vincent de Paul

28 St. Wenceslaus; St. Lawrence Ruiz and companions

29 Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael

30 St. Jerome; St. Gregory the Illuminator

October

1 St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus (of Lisieux)

2 Guardian Angels

4 St. Francis of Assisi

6 Blessed Marie Rose Durocher; St. Bruno

7 Our Lady of the Rosary

9 St. Denis and his companions; St. John Leonardi; St. Louis Betrand

10 St. Francis Borgia; St. Gereon

14 St. Callistus I

15 St. Teresa of Jesus (of ávila)

16 St. Hedwig; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque; St. Gall; St. Gerard Majella

17 St. Ignatius of Antioch

18 St. Luke

19 St. John de Brébeuf, St. Isaac Jogues, and their companions

20 St. Paul of the Cross; Blessed Contardo Ferrini

22 St. Peter of Alcántara

23 St. John of Capistrano

24 St. Anthony Claret

25 St. Crispin; St. Crispinian

27 St. Frumentius

28 St. Simon; St. Jude

November

1 All Saints

2 All Souls

3 St. Martin de Porres; St. Hubert of Liège

4 St. Charles Borromeo

5 St. Kea

6 St. Leonard of Noblac

7 St. Willibrord

8 Four Crowned Martyrs

9 Dedication of the St. John Lateran Basilica

10 St. Leo the Great; St. Aedh Mac Bricc; St. Gertrude the Great

11 St. Martin of Tours

12 St. Josaphat

13 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini; St. Brice; St. Homobonus; St. Stanislaus Kostka

15 St. Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus)

16 St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude

17 St. Elizabeth of Hungary; St. Gregory the Woodworker

18 St. Rose Philippine Duchesne; St. Odo of Cluny; Dedication of the Churches of Peter and Paul

21 The Presentation of Mary

22 St. Cecilia

23 Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro; St. Clement I; St. Columbanus

24 St. Andrew Dung-Lac and his companions

26 St. Leonard Casanova; St. John Berchmans

30 St. Andrew

December

1 St. Eligius

2 St. Bibiana

3 St. Francis Xavier

4 St. John Damascene; St. Osmund; St. Barbara

6 St. Nicholas of Myra

7 St. Ambrose

8 The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

9 Blessed Juan Diego

11 St. Damasus I

12 Our Lady of Guadalupe; St. Jane Frances de Chantal

13 St. Lucy; St. Odilia

14 St. John of the Cross

21 St. Peter Canisius

23 St. John of Kenty; St. Thorlac; St. John Cantius

25 Christmas

26 St. Stephen

27 St. John the Evangelist

28 The Holy Innocents

29 St. Thomas à Becket

30 Holy Family

31 St. Sylvester I

In addition to these fixed-date feasts, the Catholic Church celebrates a number of floating feasts.

Sunday after Christmas — The Feast of the Holy Family (Jesus, Mary, Joseph)

Third Sunday after Christmas — Feast of the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist

First Sunday after Pentecost — Holy Trinity

Thursday after Holy Trinity — Body and Blood of Christ

Friday following the second Sunday after Pentecost — Sacred Heart

Saturday following the second Sunday after Pentecost — Immaculate Heart of Mary

Last Sunday of Ordinary Time — Christ the King

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