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Monthly Saints Calendar by St Peter Canisius - August

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

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SAINTS CALENDAR ACCORDING TO ST PETER CANISIUS - THE MONTH OF AUGUST 

Saint Peter Canisius 

➡️ Introduction to this Saints Calendar

The month of August has 31 days. 

1 August: Saint Peter's Chains and the 7 Maccabees with their mother, martyrs, 164 BC. 

2 August: Stephen, the 24th Pope and martyr, 256. 

3 August: The Finding of St. Stephen, 415. 

4 August: Dominic, founder of an order, 1221. 

5 August: Oswald, martyr and King of England, 642, and Our Lady of the Snows. 

6  August: The Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor. 

7 August: Afra, penitent and martyr at Augsburg, 304. 

8 August: Cyriacus, Largus, and others, martyrs at Rome, 303. 

9 August: Romanus, soldier and martyr at Rome, 258. 

10 August: Lawrence, archdeacon and martyr, 258. 

11 August: Tiburtius, martyr at Rome, under Diocletian. 

12 August: Clare, abbess and virgin, 1253, and Hilaria, mother of Saint Afra, and others, martyrs at Augsburg, 304. 

13 August: Hippolytus and Concordia, martyrs in Rome, 255. 

14 August: Eusebius, priest and martyr, 290. 

15 August: The Assumption of Mary. 

16 August: Roch, pilgrim and confessor, c. 1327. 

17 August: Liberatus, Abbot and Martyr in Africa, in the year 483. 

18 August: Agapitus, Martyr at Praeneste, in the year 274, and Helena, Empress, in the year 328.

19 August: Sebald, Confessor of Nuremberg, 1st century. 

20 August: Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church, d. 1153. 

21 August: Jane Frances de Chantal, d. 1641. 

22 August: Symphorian, Martyr of Autun, c. 178. 

23 August: Zacchaeus, Bishop of Jerusalem, disciple of Christ. 

24 August: Bartholomew, the Apostle, 1st century. 

25 August: Louis, King of France, d. 1270. 

26 August: Zephyrinus, 16th Pope and Martyr, c. 218. 

27 August: Caesarius, Archbishop of Arles, d. 542. 

28 August: Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, d. 430. 

29 August: Beheading of St. John the Baptist. 

30 August: Rose of Lima (Peru), d. 1617. 

31 August: Paulinus, Bishop of Trier and Martyr under Emperor Constantius. 

*In this month, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, the most distinguished of the feasts of the Blessed Virgin. In times past, this was observed with pious remembrance for thirty days - hence the name "Our Lady's Thirty Days" (Dreißigst) - extending from the Assumption of Mary to the Nativity of Mary (which has an octave). The eve of this feast is a day of obligatory fasting. 

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