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Solemnities, Feast Days, Memoriae ...

in December 2020

 1 December - Bl Charles de Foucauld

 3 December - St Francis Xavier

 4 December - St Clement of Alexandria & St John Damascene

 6 December - 2nd Sunday of Advent

 7 December - St Ambrose of Milan

 8 December - Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 9 December - St Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin

10 December - Our Lady of Loreto

12 December - Our Lady of Guadalupe

14 December - St John of the Cross

21 December - St Peter Canisius

25 December - Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord, Christmas Day

26 December - St Stephen (the First Martyr)

27 December - Feast of the Holy Family
                         (also on this date St John, Apostle & Evangelist)

28 December - Holy Innocents, Martyrs

in January 2020

 1 January - Solemnity of Mary Most Holy, Mother of God
53rd World Day of Peace - Peace as a journey of hope: dialogue, reconciliation & ecological conversion
 
 2 January - St Basil the Great & St Gregory Nazianzen, Doctors of the Church

 3 January - St Joseph Mary Tomasi 

 4 January - St Elizabeth Ann Seton & St Angela of Foligno

 5 January - St John Neumann & St Charles of St Andrew Houben

 6 January - Solemnity of the Epiphany

10 January - St Gregory of Nyssa, Cappadocian Father of the Church

12 January - Feast of the Baptism of the Lord - 1st Luminous Mystery of the Rosary
(this date also feast of St Marguerite Bourgeoys)

13 January - St Hilary of Poitiers

18-25 January - Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

19 January - St Frances de Sales

20 January - Bl Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi

22 January - St Vincent Pallotti
                   Bl William Joseph Chaminade

24 January - St Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church

25 January - Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle

26 January - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
(this date also feast of Ss Timothy & Titus)

27 January - St Enrique de Ossó y Cervelló, Patron saint of Catechists

28 January - St Thomas Aquinas, the 'Angelic' Doctor of the Church

30 January - St Mutien-Marie Wiaux FSC

31 January - St John Bosco

in February 2020

2 February - Feast of the Presentation of the Lord & 24th World Day for Consecrated Life

8 February - St Josephine Bakhita

9 February - St Miguel Febres Cordero

10 February - St Scholastica

11 February - Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes & 28th World Day for the Sick

14 February - Ss Cyril & Methodius, Patrons of Europe

15 February - St Claude de la Colombière

20 February - Ss Jacinta & Francisco Marto

21 February - St Peter Damian

22 February - Chair of St Peter

26 February - Ash Wednesday & the beginning of Lent
                    St Paula of St Joseph Calasanz

in March 2020

 1 March - 1st Sunday of Lent
                 (also feast of St David of Wales on this date)

 2 March - St Nicholas Owen, martyr

18 March - St Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop & Doctor of the Church

19 March - Solemnity of St Joseph, Husband of Mary

25 March - Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

30 March - St John Climacus, monk

in April 2020

 4 April - St Isidore, bishop & Doctor of the Church

 5 April - Palm Sunday

 6 April - St Juliana of Cornillon, apostle of the Blessed Sacrament

 9 April - Holy Thursday - beginning of Easter Triduum with the Mass of the Last Supper

10 April - Good Friday

11 April - Holy Saturday
               (this date is also the feast of St Stanislaus)

12 April - Easter Sunday - Day 1 of Octave of Easter

19 April - Feast of Divine Mercy - Day 8 of Octave of Easter

21 April - St Anselm, bishop & Doctor of the Church

26 April - III Sunday of Easter

28 April - St Louis Marie de Montfort & St Gianna Beretta Molla

29 April - St Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church

30 April - St Joseph Cottolengo

in Mary's month of May, 2020

 1 May - St Joseph the Worker

 2 May - St Athanasius, Bishop & Father of the Church

 3 May - IV Sunday of Easter
               (this date is also the feast of Saints Philip & James, Apostles)

 4 May - Holy Martyrs of England and Wales

 8 May - Our Lady of the Rosary (Pompeii, Italy, 875)

 9 May - St George Preca

10 May - V Sunday of Easter
           (this date is also the feast of St John of Avila, & St Damien de Veuster)

12 May - St Leopold Mandić of Castelnuovo, Capuchin priest, 'Apostle of Unity'
              St Germanus of Constantinople

13 May - Our Lady of Fatima

14 May - St Matthias, Apostle

17 May - VI Sunday of Easter

18 May - St Leonard Murialdo

19 May - St Crispin of Viterbo

21 May - Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (40 days after Easter Sunday)

22 May - St Rita of Cascia

24 May - VII Sunday of Easter

25 May - St Bede the Venerable, Father of the Church
              St Maria Madalena de' Pazzi

26 May - St Philip Neri

27 May - St Augustine of Canterbury

29 May - St Paul VI & Bl Joseph Gérard, 'Apostle of Lesotho'

30 May - St Joan of Arc
             St Joseph Marello

31 May - Solemnity of Pentecost
            (this date is also the feast of The Visitation of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth)

in the month of the Sacred Heart, June 2020

 1 June - Mary, the Mother of the Church
             (this date is also the feast of St Justin, Martyr)

 3 June - Charles Lwanga, Kizito & the Uganda Martyrs

 4 June - Feast of Jesus, the Eternal High Priest

 5 June - St Boniface, Bishop & Martyr

 7 June - Holy Trinity Sunday

9 June - St Ephrem 

11 June - Solemnity of Corpus Christi
              (this date is also the feast of St Barnabas Apostle & St Paula Frassinetti)

13 June - St Anthony of Padua, Priest & Doctor of the Church

19 June - Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

20 June - Immaculate Heart of Mary

22 June - Ss John Fisher & Thomas More, Martyrs,
              St Paulinus of Nola, Bishop, St Joseph Cafasso

24 June - Birth of St John the Baptist

25 June - 39th anniversary of the reported apparitions of Our Lady in Medjugorje
               also feast of St Maximus of Turin

26 June - St Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei

27 June - St Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop & Doctor of the Church

28 June - St Irenaeus, Father of the Church & Martyr

29 June -  Ss Peter & Paul, Apostles

in July 2020

 1 July - St Oliver Plunkett, Martyr

 3 July - St Thomas, the Apostle

 4 July - Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati

 6 July - St Maria Goretti, Virgin & Martyr

 9 July - St Veronica Giuliani

11 July - St Benedict of Norcia, Abbot, Patron of Europe

12 July - Louis & Zélie Martin, parents of St Thérèse of Lisieux

15 July - St Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church

16 July - Our Lady of Mount Carmel

18 July - St Simon of Lipnica

21 July - St Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest & Doctor of the Church

22 July - St Mary Magdalen

23 July - St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe

24 July - St Charbel Makhlouf

25 July - St James, the Apostle

31 July - St Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits

in August 2020

1 August - St Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop & Doctor of the Church

2 August - 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
                (St Eusebius of Vercelli)

4 August - St John Mary Vianney, the Curé of Ars, Patron Saint of Priests

5 August - Dedication of Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome - Our Lady of Snows

6 August - Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

7 August - St Cajetan of Tiene, Patron Saint of the unemployed

8 August - St Dominic Guzman, Founder of the Dominicans

9 August - 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
                (St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), Martyr & Co-Patroness of Europe)

11 August - St Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of St Clare

13 August - St Maximus the Confessor

14 August - St Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Martyr of Love

15 August - Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

17 August - Our Lady of Knock
                  St Jeanne Delanoue (de la Croix)

19 August - St John Eudes, Priest

20 August - St Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot & Father of the Church

21 August - St Pius X

22 August - Feast of the Queenship of Mary

23 August - St Rose of Lima

24 August - St Bartholomew, the Apostle

26 August - Our Lady of Częstochowa

28 August - St Augustine, Bishop & Father of the Church

29 August - Feast of the Beheading of St John the Baptist

30 August - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
                    (St Margaret Clitherow, Martyr)

in September 2020

 3 September - St Gregory the Great, Pope & Father of the Church

 5 September - St Mother Teresa of Calcutta

 8 September - the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 9 September - Bl Jacob Desiré Laval

12 September - The Most Holy Name of Mary

13 September - St John Chrysostom, Bishop & Father of the Church

14 September - Feast of the Exultation of the Cross

15 September - Our Lady of Sorrows
                       St Catherine of Genoa

16 September - St Cyprian

17 September - St Hildegarde of Bingen, Doctor of the Church
                        St Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor of the Church

20 September - Ss Andrew Kim Taegon & companions, Korean martyrs

21 September - St Matthew, the Apostle & Evangelist

23 September - St Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)

24 September - Our Lady of Walsingham

29 September - Ss Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, the Archangels

30 September - St Jerome, Priest & Father of the Church

in the month of the Holy Rosary, October 2020

  1 October - St Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, Doctor of the Church
                   St Romanus the Melodist

  2 October - The Guardian Angels

  4 October - 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
                 (date also the feast of St Francis of Assisi)

  5 October - St Faustina Kowalska

  7 October - Our Lady of the Rosary

  9 October - St John Henry Newman
                    St John Leonardi

11 October - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
                   (date also the feast of St John XXIII)

13 October - 103rd anniversary of Our Lady's final apparition in Fatima when there was a miracle of the sun

15 October - St Teresa of Jesus, Doctor of the Church

16 October - St Margaret Mary Alacoque (of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart)

17 October - St Ignatius of Antioch

19 October - Ss John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues, Noël Chabanel & their companions, Martyrs

22 October - St John Paul II

28 October - Saints Simon & Jude, Apostles

30 October - St Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ

in the month of prayer for the Holy Souls, November 2020

 1 November - All Saints

 2 November - All Souls

 4 November - St Charles Borromeo

 8 November - 32nd Sunday of the Year
                        (also on this date Bl John Duns Scotus, Franciscan priest & Theologian)

10 November - St Leo the Great, Pope & Doctor of the Church

12 November - St Theodore the Studite, Abbot

15 November - 33rd Sunday of the Year
                   (also on this date St Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church, Patron Saint of Scientists)

16 November - St Gertrude the Great, Abbess

17 November - St Elizabeth of Hungary

19 November - St Matilda of Hackeborn

21 November - Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

22 November - Feast of Christ, King of the Universe

23 November - St Clement of Rome, Pope & Martyr
                      St Columbanus

24 November - Ss Andrew Dung-Lac & his companions, Martyrs

25 November -  St Catherine of Alexandria, Patron Saint of Philosophers & Students

27 November - St Catherine Labouré (of Rue du Bac & the Miraculous Medal)

29 November - 1st Sunday of Advent
                           (also on this date St Francis Antony Fasani)

30 November - St Andrew, Apostle