Universal Calendar

January

1

Mary, the Holy Mother of God (Octave of the Nativity)

Solemnity

2

St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors of the Church

Memorial

3

Most Holy Name of Jesus

6

The Epiphany of the Lord

Solemnity

7

St Raymond of Peñafort, Priest

13

St Hilary, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

17

St Anthony, abbot

Memorial

20

St Fabian, Pope, Martyr, St Sebastian, Martyr

21

St Agnes, Virgin, Martyr

Memorial

22

St Vincent, Deacon, Martyr

24

St Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

25

The Conversion of St Paul, Apostle

Feast

26

Ss Timothy and Titus, Bishops

Memorial

27

St Angela Merici, Virgin

28

St Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

31

St John Bosco, Priest,

Memorial

The Baptism of the Lord (Sunday after 6 January)

Feast

February

2

The Presentation of the Lord

Feast

3

St Blaise, Bishop, Martyr;
St Ansgar, Bishop

5

St Agatha, Virgin, Martyr

Memorial

6

St Paul Miki, and Companions, Martyrs

Memorial

8

St Jerome Emiliani;
St Josephine Bakhita, Virgin

10

St Scholastica, Virgin

Memorial

11

Our Lady of Lourdes

14

Ss Cyril, monk,and Methodius, Bishop,

Memorial

17

The Seven Founders of the Order of Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary

21

St Peter Damian, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

22

The Chair of St Peter, Apostle

Feast

23

St Polycarp, Bishop, Martyr

Memorial

27

St Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church

March

4

St Casimir

7

Ss Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs

Memorial

8

St John of God, Religious

9

St Frances of Rome, Religious

17

St Patrick, Bishop

18

St Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

19

St Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Solemnity

23

St Turibius de Mogrovejo, Bishop

25

The Annunciation of the Lord

Solemnity

April

2

St Francis of Paola, Hermit

4

St Isidore, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

5

St Vincent Ferrer, Priest

7

St John Baptist de la Salle, Priest

Memorial

11

St Stanislaus, Bishop, Martyr

Memorial

13

St Martin I, Pope, Martyr

21

St Anselm, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

23

St George, Martyr;
St Adalbert, Bishop, Martyr

24

St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest, Martyr

25

St Mark, Evangelist

Feast

28

St Peter Chanel, Priest, Martyr;
St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, Priest

29

St Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

30

St Pius V, Pope, Religious

May

1

St Joseph the Worker

2

St Athanasius, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

3

Ss Philip and James, Apostles

Feast

10

St. John of Avila, priest and doctor of the Church

12

Ss Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs;
St Pancras, Martyr

13

Our Lady of Fatima

14

St Matthias, Apostle

Feast

18

St John I, Pope, Martyr

20

St Bernardine of Siena, Priest, Religious, missionary

21

Ss Christopher Magallanes and companions, Martyrs, Priest,

22

St Rita of Cascia, Religious

25

St Bede the Venerable, Priest, Doctor of the Church;
St Gregory VII, Pope;
St Mary Magdalene de'Pazzi, Virgin

26

St Philip Neri, Priest

Memorial

27

St Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop

29

St Paul VI, Pope

31

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Feast

Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church (Monday after Pentecost)

Memorial

The Most Holy Trinity (First Sunday after Pentecost)

Solemnity

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest (Thursday after Holy Trinity)

Feast

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Thursday or Sunday after Holy Trinity)

Solemnity

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Friday following Second Sunday after Pentecost)

Solemnity

The Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saturday following Second Sunday after Pentecost)

Memorial

June

1

St Justin, Martyr

Memorial

2

Ss Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs

3

Ss Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs

Memorial

5

St Boniface, Bishop, Martyr

Memorial

6

St Norbert, Bishop

9

St Ephrem, Deacon, Doctor of the Church

11

St Barnabas, Apostle

Memorial

13

St Anthony of Padua, Priest, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

19

St Romuald, abbot

21

St Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious

Memorial

22

Ss John Fisher, Bishop, and Thomas More, Martyrs;
St Paulinus of Nola, Bishop

24

The Nativity of John the Baptist

Solemnity

27

St Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

28

St Irenaeus, Bishop, Martyr

Memorial

29

Ss Peter and Paul, Apostles

Solemnity

30

The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church

July

3

St Thomas, Apostle

Feast

4

St Elizabeth of Portugal

5

St Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Priest

6

St Maria Goretti, Virgin, Martyr

9

Ss Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest and Companions, Martyrs

11

St Benedict, abbot

Memorial

13

St Henry

14

St Camillus de Lellis, Priest

15

St Bonaventure, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

16

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

20

St Apollinaris, Bishop, Martyr

21

St Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest, Doctor of the Church

22

St Mary Magdalene

Feast

23

St Bridget, Religious

24

St Sharbel Makhluf, Priest

25

St James, Apostle

Feast

26

Ss Joachim and Ann, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Memorial

29

St Martha, Mary and Lazarus

Memorial

30

St Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

31

St Ignatius of Loyola, Priest

Memorial

August

1

St Alphonsus Mary de'Liguori, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

2

St Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop;
St Peter Julian Eymard, Priest;
St Peter Faber, Priest

4

St John Mary Vianney, Priest

Memorial

5

The Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary

6

The Transfiguration of the Lord

Feast

7

St Sixtus II, Pope, Martyr, and Companions, Martyrs;
St Cajetan, Priest

8

St Dominic, Priest

Memorial

9

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin, Martyr

10

St Lawrence, Deacon, Martyr

Feast

11

St Clare, Virgin,

Memorial

12

St Jane Frances de Chantal

13

Ss Pontian, Pope, and Hippolytus, Priest, Martyrs

14

St Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest, Martyr

Memorial

15

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Solemnity

16

St Stephen of Hungary

19

St John Eudes, Priest

20

St Bernard, abbot, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

21

St Pius X, Pope

Memorial

22

The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Memorial

23

St Rose of Lima, Virgin

24

St Bartholomew, Apostle

Feast

25

St Louis; St Joseph Calasanz, Priest

27

St Monica

Memorial

28

St Augustine, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

29

The Beheading of St John the Baptist, Martyr

Memorial

September

3

St Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

8

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Feast

9

St Peter Claver, Priest

12

Most Holy Name of Mary

13

St John Chrysostom, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

14

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Feast

15

Our Lady of Sorrows

Memorial

16

Ss Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

Memorial

17

St Robert Bellarmine, Bishop, Doctor of the Church
or St Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin, Doctor of the Church

19

St Januarius, Bishop, Martyr

20

Ss Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Priest, Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs

Memorial

21

St Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist

Feast

23

St Pio of Pietrelcina

Memorial

26

Ss Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs

27

St Vincent de Paul, Priest

Memorial

28

St Wenceslaus, Martyr; Ss Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs

29

Ss Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels

Feast

30

St Jerome, Priest, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

October

1

St Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

2

The Guardian Angels

Memorial

4

St Francis of Assisi

Memorial

5

St Faustina Kowalska, Virgin

6

St Bruno, Priest

7

Our Lady of the Rosary

Memorial

9

Ss Denis, Bishop, and his Companions, Martyrs;
St John Leonardi, Priest

11

St John XXIII, Pope

14

St Callistus I, Pope, Martyr

15

St Teresa of Jesus, Virgin, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

16

St Hedwig, Religious;
St Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin

17

St Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop, Martyr

Memorial

18

St Luke, Evangelist

Feast

19

Ss John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs;
St Paul of the Cross, Priest

22

St John Paul II, Pope

23

St John of Capistrano, Priest

24

St Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop

28

Ss Simon and Jude, Apostles

Feast

November

1

All Saints

Solemnity

2

The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls)

3

St Martin de Porres, Religious

4

St Charles Borromeo, Bishop

Memorial

9

The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

Feast

10

St Leo the Great, Pope, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

11

St Martin of Tours, Bishop

Memorial

12

St Josaphat, Bishop, Martyr

Memorial

15

St Albert the Great, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

16

St Margaret of Scotland;
St Gertrude, Virgin

17

St Elizabeth of Hungary, married woman, Religious

18

The Dedication of the Basilicas of the Ss Peter and Paul, Apostles

21

The Presentation of the Virgin Mary

Memorial

22

St Cecilia, Virgin, Martyr

Memorial

23

St Clement I, Pope, Martyr;
St Columban, abbot, missionary

24

Ss Andrew Dung-Lac, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

Memorial

25

St Catherine of Alexandria

30

St Andrew, Apostle

Feast

Our Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe (Last Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Solemnity

December

3

St Francis Xavier, Priest

Memorial

4

St John Damascene, Priest, Doctor of the Church

6

St Nicholas, Bishop

7

St Ambrose, Bishop, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

8

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Solemnity

9

St John Diego Cuahtlatoatzin

10

Our Lady of Loreto

11

St Damasus I, Pope

12

Our Lady of Guadalupe

13

St Lucy, Virgin, Martyr

Memorial

14

St John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor of the Church

Memorial

21

St Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor of the Church

23

St John of Kanty, Priest

25

The Nativity of the Lord

Solemnity

26

St Stephen, the first Martyr

Feast

27

St John, Apostle, Evangelist

Feast

28

The Holy Innocents, Martyrs

Feast

29

St Thomas Becket, Bishop, Martyr

31

St Sylvester I, Pope

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Sunday within the octave of the Birth of the Lord or, if there is no Sunday within the octave, 30 December)

Feast