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1 (PHILIP AND JAMES, APOSTLES AND MARTYRS)
2 (Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch; and Athanasius of Alexandria, Patriarch and “Father of Orthodoxy”)
- Charles Silvester Horne, English Congregationalist Minister and Hymn Writer
- Christian Friedrich Hasse, German-British Moravian Composer and Educator
- Elias Boudinot, IV, U.S. Stateman, Philanthropist, and Witness for Social Justice
- Julia Bulkley Cady Cory, U.S. Presbyterian Hymn Writer
- Sigismund of Burgundy, King; Clotilda, Frankish Queen; and Clodoald, Frankish Prince and Abbot
3 (Caroline Chisholm, English Humanitarian and Social Reformer)
- Marie-Léonie Paradis, Founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family
- Maura and Timothy of Antinoe, Martyrs, 286
- Tomasso Acerbis, Capuchin Friar
4 (Ceferino Jimenez Malla, Spanish Romani Martyr, 1936)
- Angus Dun, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, and Ecumenist
- Basil Martysz, Polish Orthodox Priest and Martyr, 1945
- Jean-Martin Moyë, Roman Catholic Priest, Missionary in China, and Founder of the Sisters of Divine Providence and the Christian Virgins
- John Houghton, Robert Lawrence, Augustine Webster, Humphrey Middlemore, William Exmew, and Sebastian Newdigate, Roman Catholic Martyrs, 1535
5 (Charles William Schaeffer, U.S. Lutheran Minister, Historian, Theologian, and Liturgist)
- Caterina Cittadini, Founder of the Ursuline Sisters of Somasco
- Edmund Ignatius Rice, Founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ireland and the Congregation of Presentation Brothers
- Friedrich von Hügel, Roman Catholic Independent Scholar and Philosopher
- Honoratus of Arles and Hilary of Arles, Roman Catholic Bishops; and Venantius of Modon and Caprasius of Lerins, Roman Catholic Hermits
6 (Anna Rosa Gattorno, Founder of the Institute of the Daughters of Saint Anne, Mother of Mary Immaculate)
- Clarence Dickinson, U.S. Presbyterian Organist and Composer
- Maria Catalina Troiani, Founder of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
- Willibald of Eichstatt and Lullus of Mainz, Roman Catholic Bishops; Walburga of Heidenhelm, Roman Catholic Abbess; Petronax of Monte Cassino, Winnebald of Heidenhelm, Wigbert of Fritzlar, and Sturmius of Fulda, Roman Catholic Abbots; and Sebaldus of Vincenza, Roman Catholic Hermit and Missionary
7 (Domitian of Huy, Roman Catholic Archbishop)
- Alexis Toth, Russian Orthodox Priest and Defender of Orthodoxy in America
- Harriet Starr Cannon, Founder of the Community of Saint Mary
- Joseph Armitage Robinson, Anglican Dean, Scholar, and Hymn Writer
- Rosa Venerini, Founder of the Venerini Sisters; and her protégé, of Lucia Filippini, Founder of the Religious Teachers Filippini
- Tobias Clausnitzer, German Lutheran Minister and Hymn Writer
8 (Juliana of Norwich, Mystic and Spiritual Writer)
- Acacius of Byzantium, Martyr, 303
- Henri Dumont, Roman Catholic Composer and Organist
- Magdalena of Canossa, Founder of the Daughters of Charity and the Sons of Charity
- Peter of Tarentaise, Roman Catholic Archbishop
9 (Stefan Grelewski and his brother, Kazimierz Grelewski, Polish Roman Catholic Priests and Martyrs, 1941 and 1942)
- Dietrich Buxtehude, Lutheran Organist and Composer
- Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, Co-Founders of the Catholic Worker Movement
- Maria del Carmen Rendiles Martinez, Founder of the Servants of Jesus of Caracas
- Thomas Toke Lynch, English Congregationalist Minister and Hymn Writer
10 (Enrico Rebuschini, Roman Catholic Priest and Servant of the Sick; and his mentor, Luigi Guanella, Founder of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence, the Servants of Charity, and the Confraternity of Saint Joseph)
- Anna Laetitia Waring, Humanitarian and Hymn Writer; and her uncle, Samuel Miller Waring, Hymn Writer
- Ivan Merz, Croatian Roman Catholic Intellectual
- John Goss, Anglican Church Composer and Organist; and William Mercer, Anglican Priest and Hymn Translator
- Vasile Aftenie, Romanian Roman Catholic Bishop and Martyr, 1950
11 (Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church)
- Barbara Andrews, First Female Minister in The American Lutheran Church, 1970
- John James Moment, U.S. Presbyterian Minister and Hymn Writer
- Matteo Ricci, Roman Catholic Missionary
- Matthêô Lê Van Gam, Vietnamese Roman Catholic Martyr, 1847
12 (Germanus I of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople, and Defender of Icons)
- Gregory of Ostia, Roman Catholic Abbot, Cardinal, and Legate; and Dominic of the Causeway, Roman Catholic Hermit
- Paul Mazakute, First Sioux Episcopal Priest
- Roger Schütz, Founder of the Taizé Community
- Sylvester II, Bishop of Rome
13 (Henri Dominique Lacordaire, French Roman Catholic Priest, Dominican, and Advocate for the Separation of Church and State)
- Frances Perkins, United States Secretary of Labor
- Gemma of Goriano Sicoli, Italian Roman Catholic Anchoress
- Glyceria of Heraclea, Martyr, Circa 177
- Unita Blackwell, African-American Civil Rights Activist, Rural Community Development Specialist, and Mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi
14 (Francis Makemie, Father of American Presbyterianism and Advocate for Religious Toleration)
- Carthage the Younger, Irish Abbot-Bishop
- Maria Dominica Mazzarello, Co-Founder of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians
- Theodore I, Bishop of Rome
- Victor the Martyr and Corona of Damascus, Martyrs in Syria, 165
15 (JUNIA AND ANDRONICUS, CO-WORKERS OF SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE)
16 (Andrew Fournet and Elizabeth Bichier, Co-Founders of the Daughters of the Cross; and Michael Garicoits, Founder of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Betharram)
- John Nepomucene, Bohemian Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr, 1393
- Martyrs of the Sudan, 1983-2005
- Ubaldo Baldassini, Roman Catholic Bishop of Gubbio
- Vladimir Ghika, Romanian Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr, 1954
17 (Thomas Bradbury Chandler, Anglican Priest; his son-in-law, John Henry Hobart, Episcopal Bishop of New York; and his grandson, William Hobart Hare, Apostle to the Sioux and Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Niobrara then South Dakota)
- Caterina Volpicelli, Founder of the Servants of the Sacred Heart; Ludovico da Casoria, Founder of the Gray Friars of Charity and Co-Founder of the Gray Sisters of Saint Elizabeth; and Giulia Salzano, Founder of the Congregation of the Catechetical Sisters of the Sacred Heart
- Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall, Attorneys and Civil Rights Activists
- Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Ivan Ziatyk, Polish Ukrainian Greek Catholic Priest and Martyr, 1952
18 (Maltbie Davenport Babcock, U.S. Presbyterian Minister, Humanitarian, and Hymn Writer)
- Felix of Cantalice, Italian Roman Catholic Friar
- John I, Bishop of Rome
- Mary McLeod Bethune, African-American Educator and Social Activist
- Stanislaw Kubski, Polish Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr, 1945
19 (Jacques Ellul, French Reformed Theologian and Sociologist)
- Celestine V, Bishop of Rome
- Dunstan of Canterbury, Abbot of Glastonbury and Archbishop of Canterbury
- Georg Gottfried Muller, German-American Moravian Minister and Composer
- Ivo of Kermartin, Roman Catholic Attorney, Priest, and Advocate for the Poor
20 (Alcuin of York, Abbot of Tours)
- Columba of Rieti and Osanna Andreasi, Dominican Mystics
- John Eliot, “The Apostle to the Indians”
- Mariá Angélica Pérez, Roman Catholic Nun
- Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Founder of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
21 (Christian de Chergé and His Companions, Martyrs of Tibhirine, Algeria, 1996)
- Eugene de Mazenod, Bishop of Marseilles, and Founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries, Oblates of Mary Immaculate
- Franz Jägerstätter, Austrian Roman Catholic Conscientious Objector and Martyr, 1943
- Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope, English Poets
- Manuel Gómez González, Spanish-Brazilian Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr, 1924; and Adilo Daronch, Brazilian Roman Catholic Altar Boy and Martyr, 1924
22 (Frederick Hermann Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church in America)
- Humility, Italian Roman Catholic Hermitess and Abbess
- John Forest and Thomas Abel, English Roman Catholic Priests and Martyrs, 1538 and 1540
- Julia of Corsica, Martyr at Corsica, 620
- Maria Rita Lópes Pontes de Souza Brito, Brazilian Roman Catholic Nun
23 (Ivo of Chartres, Roman Catholic Bishop)
- Frederick Augustus Bennett, First Maori Anglican Bishop in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Józef Kurgawa and Wincenty Matuszewski, Polish Roman Catholic Priests and Martyrs, 1940
- William of Perth, English Roman Catholic Baker and Martyr, 1201
24 (Nicolaus Selnecker, German Lutheran Minister, Theologian, and Hymn Writer)
- Benjamin Carr, Anglo-American Composer and Organist
- Jackson Kemper, Episcopal Missionary Bishop
- Edith Mary Mellish (a.k.a. Mother Edith), Founder of the Community of the Sacred Name
- Maria Gargani, Founder of the Sisters Apostles of the Sacred Heart
- Mary Madeleva Wolff, U.S. Roman Catholic Nun, Poet, Scholar, and President of Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana
25 (Bede of Jarrow, Roman Catholic Abbot and Father of English History)
- Aldhelm of Sherborne, Poet, Literary Scholar, Abbot of Malmesbury, and Bishop of Sherborne
- Cristobal Magollanes Jara and Agustin Caloca Cortés, Mexican Roman Catholic Priests and Martyrs, 1927
- Madeleine-Sophie Barat, Founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart; and Rose Philippine Duchesne, Roman Catholic Nun and Missionary
- Mykola Tsehelskyi, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Priest and Martyr, 1951
26 (Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop)
- Lambert Péloguin of Vence, Roman Catholic Monk and Bishop
- Philip Neri, the Apostle of Rome and the Founder of the Congregation of the Oratory
- Quadratus the Apologist, Early Christian Apologist
27 (Paul Gerhardt, German Lutheran Minister and Hymn Writer)
- Alfred Rooker, English Congregationalist Philanthropist and Hymn Writer; and his sister, Elizabeth Rooker Parson, English Congregationalist Hymn Writer
- Amelia Bloomer, U.S. Suffragette
- John Charles Roper, Anglican Archbishop of Ottawa
- Lojze Grozde, Slovenian Roman Catholic Martyr, 1943
28 (John H. W. Stuckenberg, German-American Lutheran Minister and Academic)
- Bernard of Menthon, Roman Catholic Priest and Archdeacon of Aosta
- Edwin Pond Parker, U.S. Congregationalist Minister and Hymn Writer
- Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, Anglican Priest and Hymn Writer
- Jeremias Dencke, Silesian-American Moravian Composer and Organist; and Simon Peter and Johann Friedrich Peter, German-American Composers, Educators, Musicians, and Ministers
- Robert McAfee Brown, U.S. Presbyterian Minister, Theologian, Activist, and Ecumenist
29 (Percy Dearmer, Anglican Canon and Translator and Author of Hymns)
- Bona of Pisa, Roman Catholic Mystic and Pilgrim
- Jiri Tranovsky, Luther of the Slavs and Father of Slovak Hymnody
- Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, Founder of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Peter Claver, and “Mother of the African Missions;” and her sister, Ursula Ledóchowska, Founder of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Gray Ursulines)
- Ruby Middleton Forsythe, African-American Episcopal Educator
30 (Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Visionary and Martyr, 1430)
- Apolo Kivebulaya, Apostle to the Pygmies
- Joachim Neander, German Reformed Minister and Hymn Writer
- Josephine Butler, English Feminist and Social Reformer
- Luke Kirby, Thomas Cottam, William Filby, and Laurence Richardson, Roman Catholic Priests and Martyrs, 1582
31 (VISITATION OF MARY TO ELIZABETH)
Floating
- Ascension
- First Book of Common Prayer, 1549
Lowercase boldface on a date with two or more commemorations indicates a primary feast.
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