feasts
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Feast of Saint Irmina and Adele
Date: December, 24 Saint Irmina or Irma was a Benedictine abbess and patroness of St. Willibrord. The daughter of Frankish… Read More
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Feast of Saint John of Kanty
Date: December, 23 Jan Kanty (John Cantius in English) was born in 1390 in the small town of Kęty, in… Read More
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Feast of Blessed Jacopone da Todi
Date: December, 22 Jacomo or James, was born a noble member of the Benedetti family in the northern Italian city… Read More
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Feast of Saint Dominic of Silos
Date: December, 20 Born in Cañas, La Rioja, to a family of peasants, Dominic worked as a shepherd, later becoming… Read More
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Feast of Saint Anastasius I, Pope
Date: December, 19 St. Anastasius I was born in Rome. He was the son of Maximus, and was Pope from… Read More
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Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Date: December, 18 Today is exactly seven days before Christmas. Today’s feast has several names, including the Feast of the… Read More
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Feast of Saint Olympias
Date: December, 17 Olympias was the daughter born to the Antiochian Greek noblewoman, Alexandra and the wealthy Greek Rhetor, Seleucus.… Read More
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Feast of Saint Adelaide of Burgundy
Date: December, 16 The daughter of Rudolf II, king of Burgundy, and Bertha of Swabia, Adelaide, (born c. 931—died December… Read More
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Feast of Saint Lucy of Syracuse
Date: December, 13 It takes great faith to exclaim that torture and death are glorious when they result from your… Read More
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Date: December, 12 “My dear child, Am I not here, I, who am your mother? Are you not under my… Read More