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UID:mary-mother-of-god@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260101
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SUMMARY:⛪ Mary\, Mother of God
DESCRIPTION:Solemnity. Patron of Mothers\, the Church\, all humanity. 'Th
 eotokos' (God-bearer) is the oldest formally defined Marian title — Chri
 stians were rioting in the streets of Ephesus in joy when it was confirm
 ed. "Do whatever He tells you."
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UID:basil-the-great@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260102
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Basil the Great
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Hospital administrat
 ors\, monks. He essentially invented the charitable hospital — a whole c
 ity of care for the poor and sick\, centuries before modern medicine. "T
 he bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry\; the coat\, which yo
 u guard in your chest\, belongs to the naked."
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UID:genevieve@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260103
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Genevieve
DESCRIPTION:Virgin. Patron of Paris\, against disasters. When Attila's ar
 my turned away from Paris in 451\, the people credited Genevieve's all-n
 ight prayer vigils — she remains the city's patron to this day.
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UID:elizabeth-ann-seton@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260104
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
DESCRIPTION:Religious Foundress. Patron of Catholic schools\, widows\, se
 afarers. She was the first native-born citizen of the United States to b
 e canonized a saint. "We must pray without ceasing\, in every occurrence
  and employment of our lives."
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UID:john-neumann@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260105
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Neumann
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Catholic education\, immigrants. He learned
  eight languages so he could hear confessions from immigrants in their n
 ative tongues. "A man must always be ready\, for death comes when and wh
 ere God wills it."
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UID:andre-bessette@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260106
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. André Bessette
DESCRIPTION:Religious Brother. Patron of The sick\, doorkeepers. A millio
 n people filed past his casket in 1937. His job title his whole life: do
 orman. "It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most 
 beautiful pictures."
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UID:raymond-of-penyafort@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260107
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Raymond of Penyafort
DESCRIPTION:Priest. Patron of Canon lawyers. The pope ordered him to comp
 ile all of canon law\; his Decretals remained the Church's legal backbon
 e until 1917 — nearly 700 years.
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UID:severinus-of-noricum@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260108
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Severinus of Noricum
DESCRIPTION:Abbot\, Apostle of Noricum. Patron of Bavaria\, Austria. He a
 rrived from the East just as Rome's order fell apart and became the calm
  center of a region in chaos — yet he never revealed where he came from.
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UID:adrian-of-canterbury@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260109
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Adrian of Canterbury
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of Teachers\, students. He turned down the high
 est post in the English Church twice\, preferring to teach Greek\, Latin
 \, and Scripture to students who came from across Britain.
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UID:gregory-of-nyssa@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260110
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Gregory of Nyssa
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Father of the Church. Patron of Theologians. He help
 ed finalize the Creed at the Council of Constantinople in 381 — much of 
 what Christians say about the Holy Spirit each Sunday traces to his pen.
  "Concepts create idols\; only wonder grasps anything."
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UID:theodosius-the-cenobiarch@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260111
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of Monks. His desert monastery ran separate bui
 ldings for the sick\, the elderly\, and the mentally ill — organized soc
 ial care centuries before the word existed.
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UID:marguerite-bourgeoys@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260112
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Marguerite Bourgeoys
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Foundress. Patron of Against poverty\, Canada. She c
 rossed the Atlantic seven times for her colony's schools and is honored 
 as Canada's first woman saint.
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UID:hilary-of-poitiers@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Hilary of Poitiers
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Lawyers\, against sn
 ake bites. Exile backfired: sent east to silence him\, he learned his op
 ponents' arguments firsthand and returned to dismantle them. "They didn'
 t know who they were dealing with when they exiled a man whose Church is
  everywhere."
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UID:sava-of-serbia@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260114
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Sava
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop. Patron of Serbia. He gave up a throne for a monas
 tery\, then founded his country's church\, law\, and literature — Serbia
 's greatest medieval figure.
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UID:paul-the-first-hermit@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260115
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Paul the First Hermit
DESCRIPTION:Hermit. Patron of Hermits. By tradition a raven brought him h
 alf a loaf of bread each day for decades\; when St. Anthony visited\, th
 e raven brought a whole loaf.
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UID:marcellus-i@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
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SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. Marcellus I
DESCRIPTION:Pope\, Martyr. Patron of Stable hands. By tradition the emper
 or punished him by making him tend horses in a stable converted from a c
 hurch\; he died there\, a pope condemned to manual labor.
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UID:anthony-of-egypt@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260117
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Anthony of Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Abbot\, Father of Monasticism. Patron of Monks\, gravediggers
 \, those facing temptation. He lived to 105\, in an era when most people
  didn't see 40\, on a diet of bread\, salt\, and water. "The devil is af
 raid of us when we pray and make sacrifices."
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UID:margaret-of-hungary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260118
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Margaret of Hungary
DESCRIPTION:Virgin. Patron of Hungary. Her father offered her a crown and
  a husband-king\; she chose the convent's hardest chores instead and was
 hed the feet of the sick.
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UID:canute-iv@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260119
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Canute IV of Denmark
DESCRIPTION:King\, Martyr. Patron of Denmark. His own subjects rebelled a
 gainst his taxes and reforms and cut him down at the altar — and within 
 years the same nation venerated him as a martyr.
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UID:sebastian@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Sebastian
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Soldiers\, athletes\, against plague. The f
 amous arrows didn't kill him — he recovered\, walked up to the emperor t
 o rebuke him\, and only then was martyred.
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UID:agnes@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Agnes
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Martyr. Patron of Young girls\, engaged couples\, pu
 rity. She is one of only seven women named in the Roman Canon of the Mas
 s\, honored there for over 1\,500 years. "Christ made my soul beautiful 
 with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels ser
 ve."
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UID:vincent-of-saragossa@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Vincent of Saragossa
DESCRIPTION:Deacon\, Martyr. Patron of Vintners\, winemakers. St. Augusti
 ne preached that the whole Roman world knew Vincent's name — his serenit
 y under torture became one of the most retold martyr stories.
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UID:marianne-cope@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260123
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Marianne Cope
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Religious. Patron of Lepers\, outcasts. She promised
  her sisters none of them would catch leprosy in their work — and across
  decades on Molokai\, not one ever did. "I am hungry for the work."
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UID:francis-de-sales@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260124
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Francis de Sales
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Writers\, journalist
 s\, the deaf. When Calvinists wouldn't let him preach\, he slipped essay
 s under their doors — making him the patron saint of journalists. "Have 
 patience with all things\, but first of all with yourself."
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UID:conversion-of-paul@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260125
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Conversion of St. Paul
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of Missionaries. The Church doesn't mark his de
 ath today but his turning — proof that no one is beyond the reach of gra
 ce\, not even a persecutor of the faith. "Lord\, what do you want me to 
 do?"
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UID:timothy-titus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260126
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SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Timothy & Titus
DESCRIPTION:Bishops\, Companions of Paul. Patron of Stomach ailments (Tim
 othy)\; Crete (Titus). Paul called Timothy his 'beloved son' — proof tha
 t mentorship built the early Church as much as miracles did. "Let no one
  despise your youth. (1 Tim 4:12\, written to Timothy)"
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UID:angela-merici@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Angela Merici
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Foundress. Patron of The sick\, the disabled\, educa
 tors of girls. Her 'company' of women lived at home rather than in conve
 nts — a structure so radical it took the Church decades to catch up. "Di
 sorder in society is the result of disorder in the family."
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UID:thomas-aquinas@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Thomas Aquinas
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Students\, universit
 ies\, philosophers. Classmates called him 'the Dumb Ox' for his silence.
  His teacher St. Albert replied: 'This ox will bellow so loud the whole 
 world will hear him.' "To one who has faith\, no explanation is necessar
 y. To one without faith\, no explanation is possible."
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UID:gildas-the-wise@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260129
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Gildas the Wise
DESCRIPTION:Monk. Patron of Historians. Almost everything historians know
  about post-Roman Britain — the world behind the Arthur legends — surviv
 es only because Gildas wrote it down.
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UID:bathild@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260130
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bathild
DESCRIPTION:Queen. Patron of Children\, against abuse. Sold as a slave as
  a child\, she rose to queen and then banned the selling of Christians a
 s slaves across her realm — and bought many out of bondage.
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UID:john-bosco@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260131
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Bosco
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Founder. Patron of Youth\, apprentices\, editors\, m
 agicians. He learned juggling and magic tricks as a boy to draw crowds —
  then 'charged' admission: one decade of the rosary. "Run\, jump\, shout
 \, but do not sin."
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UID:brigid-of-kildare@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260201
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Brigid of Kildare
DESCRIPTION:Abbess. Patron of Ireland. Stories say she gave away so much 
 — her father's sword\, the milk\, the butter — that her charity became l
 egendary\; she is patroness of Ireland alongside Patrick.
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UID:presentation-of-the-lord@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260202
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Presentation of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:Feast (Candlemas). Patron of —. Called Candlemas because cand
 les are blessed today — Simeon hailed the child as 'a light to the natio
 ns\,' closing the Christmas season with light. "Now\, Master\, you may l
 et your servant go in peace\, for my eyes have seen your salvation."
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UID:blaise@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260203
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Blaise
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Martyr. Patron of Throat ailments\, wild animals. Ca
 tholics still get their throats blessed with crossed candles every Febru
 ary 3 — a tradition over a thousand years old.
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UID:john-de-britto@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John de Britto
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Martyr. Patron of Missionaries\, India. He adopted I
 ndian dress and customs to reach high-caste Hindus and was nicknamed the
  'Portuguese St. Francis Xavier' before his martyrdom.
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UID:agatha@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260205
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Agatha
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Martyr. Patron of Breast cancer patients\, nurses\, 
 Sicily. Sicilians have invoked her against eruptions of Mount Etna for 1
 7 centuries — and name a famous dessert after her. "Lord\, my Creator\, 
 you have protected me from the cradle. Receive now my soul."
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UID:paul-miki@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260206
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Paul Miki & Companions
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs of Nagasaki. Patron of Japan. When missionaries retur
 ned to Japan 250 years later\, they found thousands of 'hidden Christian
 s' who had kept the faith in secret all along. "After Christ's example\,
  I forgive my persecutors. I ask God to have mercy on all."
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UID:colette@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260207
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Colette
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Abbess. Patron of Expectant mothers. Orphaned and wa
 lled into a hermit's cell at twenty-one\, she emerged to reform an entir
 e religious order across France\, Flanders\, and Savoy.
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UID:josephine-bakhita@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260208
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Josephine Bakhita
DESCRIPTION:Religious Sister. Patron of Sudan\, survivors of human traffi
 cking. Her kidnappers' trauma made her forget her own name. 'Bakhita' — 
 'fortunate one' — was the name slavers gave her. She made it true. "If I
  were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me\, I would kneel and kis
 s their hands\, for if that did not happen\, I would not be a Christian 
 today."
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UID:apollonia@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Apollonia
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Martyr. Patron of Dentists\, against toothache. Beca
 use her teeth were shattered in her martyrdom\, she became the patron sa
 int invoked against toothache and of dentists.
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UID:scholastica@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Scholastica
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Foundress of Benedictine Nuns. Patron of Nuns\, agai
 nst storms. When Benedict tried to leave her last visit early\, she pray
 ed — and a thunderstorm trapped him there. 'I asked you\, and you would 
 not listen. So I asked my God.' "I asked you\, and you would not listen\
 ; so I asked my God\, and He did listen."
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UID:our-lady-of-lourdes@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
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SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Lourdes
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of The sick\, World Day of the Sick. The
  Lourdes Medical Bureau — staffed by doctors of all faiths and none — ha
 s verified 70 cures as medically inexplicable. "I am the Immaculate Conc
 eption."
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UID:meletius-of-antioch@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260212
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Meletius of Antioch
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Peacemakers. He was driven from his see thr
 ee times yet kept his temper and charity\; St. John Chrysostom\, whom he
  baptized\, never forgot him.
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UID:catherine-de-ricci@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260213
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Catherine de' Ricci
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Mystic. Patron of The sick. For twelve years she exp
 erienced a weekly ecstasy of the Passion every Thursday into Friday — an
 d yet ran her convent with brisk practical sense.
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UID:cyril-methodius@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260214
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Cyril & Methodius
DESCRIPTION:Bishops\, Apostles to the Slavs. Patron of Europe\, Slavic pe
 oples\, unity of East and West. The Cyrillic alphabet used today by 250+
  million people is named for Cyril — a missionary side project that outl
 ived empires.
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UID:valentine@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260214
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Valentine
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Martyr. Patron of Engaged couples\, love\, beekeeper
 s. The real Valentine was beheaded for marrying couples illegally. The g
 reeting-card holiday hides a story of a priest who died for marriage.
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UID:claude-de-la-colombiere@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260215
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Claude de la Colombière
DESCRIPTION:Priest. Patron of Against jealousy. When no one believed Marg
 aret Mary's visions of the Sacred Heart\, this Jesuit confessor believed
  her — and helped spread the devotion worldwide.
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UID:onesimus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Onesimus
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr. Patron of —. He is the subject of an entire 
 book of the New Testament — Paul's letter to Philemon — pleading that a 
 runaway slave be received back as a beloved brother.
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UID:seven-holy-founders-servites@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Seven Holy Founders of the Servites
DESCRIPTION:Founders. Patron of —. Seven friends gave up their fortunes o
 n the same day to found a religious order — and were canonized together 
 as a single feast.
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UID:fra-angelico@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
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SUMMARY:⛪ Bl. Fra Angelico
DESCRIPTION:Religious\, Friar. Patron of Artists. Pope John Paul II named
  this painter-friar the patron saint of artists — by tradition he prayed
  before taking up the brush and wept while painting the Crucifixion.
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UID:conrad-of-piacenza@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260219
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Conrad of Piacenza
DESCRIPTION:Hermit. Patron of Against hernias. His hunt set a forest abla
 ze and nearly hanged an innocent man — so he gave away everything he own
 ed to make it right and lived the rest of his life as a penitent.
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UID:francisco-jacinta-marto@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260220
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SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Francisco & Jacinta Marto
DESCRIPTION:Visionaries. Patron of Sick children. Canonized in 2017\, the
 y are among the youngest non-martyr saints ever — a shepherd boy and gir
 l who saw Our Lady of Fátima and offered their short lives in prayer.
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UID:peter-damian@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260221
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Peter Damian
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Reformers. He begged
  to retire back to his monastery so often that the pope finally relented
  — history's most reluctant cardinal.
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UID:chair-of-saint-peter@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260222
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Chair of St. Peter
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of The papacy. The 'chair' (cathedra) is a symb
 ol of teaching authority\; today the Church celebrates the unity and con
 tinuity of the office Christ entrusted to Peter.
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UID:polycarp@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260223
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Polycarp
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Martyr. Patron of Against earaches\, dysentery. Aske
 d to curse Christ and live\, he answered: 'Eighty-six years I have serve
 d Him\, and He never did me any wrong.' "Eighty-six years I have served 
 Him\, and He never did me any wrong. How can I blaspheme my King who sav
 ed me?"
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UID:ethelbert-of-kent@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260224
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Ethelbert of Kent
DESCRIPTION:King. Patron of —. He gave Augustine's monks land at Canterbu
 ry and let them preach freely — the opening of England's conversion — an
 d wrote the first English laws.
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UID:walburga@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Walburga
DESCRIPTION:Abbess. Patron of Against storms and plague. The eve of her f
 east\, 'Walpurgisnacht\,' became famous in European folklore — though th
 e saint herself was a quiet\, learned English missionary abbess.
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UID:porphyry-of-gaza@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260226
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Porphyry of Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. He governed one of the last strongly pag
 an cities of the empire and\, after years of patience\, saw it become Ch
 ristian in his own lifetime.
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UID:gabriel-of-our-lady-of-sorrows@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260227
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
DESCRIPTION:Religious. Patron of Students\, young people. He was a stylis
 h\, theater-loving young man — and became a saint not by great deeds but
  by doing ordinary things with extraordinary love\, dying at twenty-four
 .
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UID:oswald-of-worcester@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260228
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Oswald of Worcester
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. By tradition he died washing the feet of
  the poor\, as he did every day of Lent — kneeling at the twelfth pair w
 hen his heart gave out.
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UID:david-of-wales@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260301
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. David of Wales
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Abbot. Patron of Wales. His monks drank no wine\, at
 e no meat\, and ploughed without oxen — yet his rule produced a network 
 of monasteries across Wales and the West. "Be joyful\, keep the faith\, 
 and do the little things you have seen and heard from me."
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UID:chad-of-mercia@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Chad
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. So determined was he to preach to everyo
 ne that he walked everywhere\, until Archbishop Theodore personally lift
 ed him onto a horse.
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UID:katharine-drexel@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260303
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Katharine Drexel
DESCRIPTION:Religious Foundress. Patron of Racial justice\, philanthropis
 ts. When she asked Pope Leo XIII to send missionaries to Native American
 s\, he replied: 'Why not become a missionary yourself?' She did. "The pa
 tient and humble endurance of the cross — whatever nature it may be — is
  the highest work we have to do."
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UID:casimir-of-poland@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260304
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Casimir
DESCRIPTION:Prince. Patron of Poland\, Lithuania. Offered the throne of H
 ungary by rebellious nobles\, he turned it down as unjust — and is honor
 ed today as the patron of Poland and Lithuania.
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UID:john-joseph-of-the-cross@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Joseph of the Cross
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Friar. Patron of —. He joined the strict Franciscan 
 reform at sixteen and helped build the friary with his own hands before 
 he was even ordained.
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UID:fridolin-of-sackingen@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260306
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Fridolin of Säckingen
DESCRIPTION:Abbot\, Missionary. Patron of —. Legend says he was called 't
 he Traveler' for the distances he covered planting the faith along the R
 hine from Gaul into the Alps.
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UID:perpetua-felicity@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260307
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SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Perpetua & Felicity
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of Mothers\, expectant mothers\, Carthage. Fe
 licity gave birth in prison days before execution — so she could legally
  die with her friends\, since Rome wouldn't execute a pregnant woman. "I
  cannot call myself anything other than what I am: a Christian."
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UID:john-of-god@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260308
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John of God
DESCRIPTION:Religious Founder. Patron of Hospitals\, nurses\, booksellers
 \, the mentally ill. He was once committed to an asylum himself — and em
 erged determined to revolutionize how the mentally ill were treated. "La
 bor without stopping\; do all the good works you can while you still hav
 e the time."
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UID:frances-of-rome@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260309
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Frances of Rome
DESCRIPTION:Married Woman & Foundress. Patron of Motorists\, widows. She'
 s the patron of drivers because she reportedly traveled with her guardia
 n angel lighting the road ahead like a headlamp. "A married woman must\,
  when called upon\, quit her devotions to God at the altar to find Him i
 n her household affairs."
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UID:john-ogilvie@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Ogilvie
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Martyr. Patron of Scotland. Tortured by being kept a
 wake for over a week to make him name fellow Catholics\, he refused — an
 d is Scotland's only canonized martyr of the Reformation.
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UID:eulogius-of-cordoba@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260311
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Eulogius of Córdoba
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Martyr. Patron of —. He wrote the history of his cit
 y's persecuted Christians while it was still happening — then joined the
 ir number\, executed for protecting a young convert.
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UID:maximilian-of-tebessa@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260312
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Maximilian of Tebessa
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Conscientious objectors. Often called the f
 irst recorded conscientious objector\, he told the court plainly\, 'I ca
 nnot serve as a soldier\; I am a Christian\,' and died for it at twenty-
 one.
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UID:leander-of-seville@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260313
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Leander of Seville
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. He converted a royal dynasty and a whole
  kingdom from Arian heresy — and trained his little brother Isidore\, wh
 o would surpass him in fame.
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UID:matilda-of-germany@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260314
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Matilda
DESCRIPTION:Queen. Patron of Widows\, large families. Her own sons accuse
 d her of squandering the treasury on the poor — so she gave away even mo
 re\, founding abbeys and hospitals across Saxony.
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UID:louise-de-marillac@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260315
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Louise de Marillac
DESCRIPTION:Widow\, Foundress. Patron of Social workers. She helped inven
 t modern social work: her sisters served not behind convent walls but in
  homes\, hospitals\, and slums\, 'the streets their cloister.'
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UID:heribert-of-cologne@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260316
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Heribert of Cologne
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop. Patron of Against drought. By tradition a great d
 rought broke into rain during a penitential procession he led barefoot —
  and he became the saint invoked for rain.
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UID:patrick@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Patrick
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Apostle of Ireland. Patron of Ireland\, engineers\, 
 against snakes. Patrick wasn't Irish. He was a Roman Briton who went bac
 k\, voluntarily\, to the land of his enslavement to bring it the Gospel.
  "Christ with me\, Christ before me\, Christ behind me\, Christ in me."
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UID:cyril-of-jerusalem@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Cyril of Jerusalem
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Catechists. He spent
  16 of his 35 years as bishop in exile — and still left us some of the m
 ost beautiful catechesis ever written. "The dragon sits by the side of t
 he road\, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to t
 he Father of souls\, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon."
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UID:joseph@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Spouse of the Virgin Mary. Patron of The universal Church\, f
 athers\, workers\, a happy death. Not a single word of his is recorded i
 n Scripture. He answered God entirely in action.
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UID:cuthbert-of-lindisfarne@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260320
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Cuthbert
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Hermit. Patron of Northern England. He set up some o
 f the earliest bird-protection laws in the world to guard the eider duck
 s of the Farne Islands\, still called 'Cuddy's ducks.'
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UID:nicholas-of-flue@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Nicholas of Flüe
DESCRIPTION:Hermit. Patron of Switzerland. By tradition he ate nothing bu
 t the Eucharist for nineteen years\, and his single intervention in 1481
  held the young Swiss nation together.
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UID:nicholas-owen@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260322
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Nicholas Owen
DESCRIPTION:Religious\, Martyr. Patron of Illusionists\, builders. For tw
 enty years he built ingenious hidden chambers in Catholic houses by nigh
 t\, single-handed\; under torture he never revealed one of them.
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UID:turibius-of-mogrovejo@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Turibius of Mogrovejo
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Latin American bishops. He traveled his vas
 t Andean diocese on foot for years\, confirmed and catechized the indige
 nous in their own tongues\, and baptized the future St. Martin de Porres
 .
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UID:oscar-romero@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260324
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Óscar Romero
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop & Martyr. Patron of El Salvador\, persecuted Chris
 tians\, the poor. He was shot while elevating the chalice at Mass\, the 
 day after begging soldiers on national radio: 'In the name of God\, stop
  the repression.' "Aspire not to have more\, but to be more."
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UID:annunciation-of-the-lord@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Annunciation of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:Solemnity. Patron of —. Nine months before Christmas to the d
 ay\, the Church celebrates the moment of the Incarnation itself — not Je
 sus' birth\, but his conception. "Behold\, I am the handmaid of the Lord
 \; let it be done to me according to your word."
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UID:margaret-clitherow@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260326
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Margaret Clitherow
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Businesswomen. Called 'the Pearl of York\,'
  she was pressed to death under a door piled with weights — refusing to 
 plead guilty or not guilty to protect her family and friends.
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UID:rupert-of-salzburg@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Rupert of Salzburg
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Salzburg. He gave Salzburg ('Salt-castle') 
 its name and its church\; the city's wealth and his mission both grew fr
 om the salt mines he reopened.
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UID:guntram-of-burgundy@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260328
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Guntram
DESCRIPTION:King. Patron of —. Gregory of Tours called him more like a go
 od bishop than a king — a Merovingian monarch who did public penance and
  emptied his treasury for famine relief.
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UID:jonas-and-barachisius@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260329
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Jonas & Barachisius
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of —. They were arrested not for being Christ
 ians in hiding but for openly comforting fellow believers on their way t
 o execution.
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UID:john-climacus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260330
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Climacus
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of —. His surname 'Climacus' means 'of the ladd
 er\,' after the book that has shaped Eastern Christian spirituality for 
 fourteen centuries.
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UID:benjamin-the-deacon@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260331
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Deacon\, Martyr. Patron of —. Freed on condition that he neve
 r speak of Christ again\, he answered that he could not stay silent\, an
 d went back to preaching until he was put to death.
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UID:mary-of-egypt@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Mary of Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Penitent. Patron of Penitents. After a lifetime of sin she fl
 ed into the desert beyond the Jordan and lived there nearly half a centu
 ry in penance — one of the great conversion stories of the East.
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UID:francis-of-paola@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260402
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Francis of Paola
DESCRIPTION:Hermit\, Founder. Patron of Mariners\, boatmen. Tradition say
 s that\, refused passage across the Strait of Messina\, he spread his cl
 oak on the water and sailed across on it — hence his patronage of sailor
 s.
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UID:richard-of-chichester@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260403
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Richard of Chichester
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Sussex\, coachmen. His bedside prayer — to 
 know Christ more clearly\, love him more dearly\, follow him more nearly
  — became one of the best-loved prayers in the English language. "May I 
 know you more clearly\, love you more dearly\, and follow you more nearl
 y\, day by day."
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UID:isidore-of-seville@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260404
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Isidore of Seville
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of The internet\, compu
 ter users\, students. He attempted to organize the sum of human knowledg
 e into one searchable structure — which is why he's the patron saint of 
 the internet. "Learning unsupported by grace may get into our ears\; it 
 never reaches the heart."
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UID:vincent-ferrer@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260405
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Vincent Ferrer
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Missionary. Patron of Builders\, construction worker
 s. Listeners of different languages reportedly understood his Valencian 
 sermons — a gift of tongues on a continental tour. "If you truly want to
  help the soul of your neighbor\, you should approach God first with all
  your heart."
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UID:notker-the-stammerer@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260406
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Bl. Notker the Stammerer
DESCRIPTION:Monk. Patron of Musicians. He could barely speak\, yet he wro
 te soaring sacred poetry and music — proof\, his brothers said\, that Go
 d's praise needs no perfect tongue.
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UID:john-baptist-de-la-salle@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Baptist de la Salle
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Founder. Patron of Teachers\, educators. He pioneere
 d teaching in the local language instead of Latin\, grouping students in
 to grade levels\, and training teachers — your school still runs on his 
 ideas. "To touch the hearts of your students is the greatest miracle you
  can perform."
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UID:julie-billiart@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260408
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Julie Billiart
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Foundress. Patron of Against poverty\, the disabled.
  She was paralyzed and largely mute for decades\, yet ran a hidden catec
 hism school from her bed — and was cured the year she founded her teachi
 ng order.
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UID:waudru-of-mons@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260409
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Waudru
DESCRIPTION:Abbess. Patron of Mons. Her whole family became saints — husb
 and\, sister\, and children alike — and the town of Mons in Belgium grew
  around the religious house she founded.
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UID:magdalene-of-canossa@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260410
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Magdalene of Canossa
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Foundress. Patron of —. Born into one of Italy's gre
 at families\, she gave it up to gather abandoned children from the stree
 ts of Verona and teach them herself.
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UID:stanislaus-of-krakow@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260411
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Stanislaus of Kraków
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr. Patron of Poland. He excommunicated a tyrant
  king for his crimes\; the enraged king killed him during Mass — and the
  bishop\, not the king\, became Poland's hero.
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UID:teresa-of-the-andes@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260412
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Teresa of the Andes
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Religious. Patron of Chile\, young people. She was a
  Carmelite for less than a year and died at nineteen\, yet her letters a
 nd joy made her the most beloved saint of her country.
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UID:martin-i@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. Martin I
DESCRIPTION:Pope\, Martyr. Patron of —. He is the last pope venerated as 
 a martyr — arrested for defending orthodox faith\, dragged across the em
 pire\, and left to starve in exile.
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UID:lidwina-of-schiedam@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Lidwina of Schiedam
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Mystic. Patron of The chronically ill\, skaters. Inj
 ured skating at fifteen\, she turned a lifetime of illness into a minist
 ry of prayer — and is honored both as patron of the chronically ill and 
 of skaters.
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UID:hunna@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Hunna
DESCRIPTION:—. Patron of Laundresses. She is the patron saint of laundres
 ses because\, though a lady of rank\, she insisted on washing the clothe
 s of the sick and poor with her own hands.
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UID:bernadette@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bernadette Soubirous
DESCRIPTION:Visionary of Lourdes. Patron of The sick\, the poor\, shepher
 ds. Interrogators tried for years to break her story. Her answer never c
 hanged: 'I am charged to tell you\, not to make you believe.' "I am char
 ged to tell you\, not to make you believe."
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UID:stephen-harding@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260417
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Stephen Harding
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of —. His simple constitution for the strugglin
 g new monastery of Cîteaux became the blueprint that spread the Cisterci
 ans across all of Europe.
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UID:apollonius-the-apologist@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260418
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Apollonius the Apologist
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of —. Given the chance to recant before the Ro
 man Senate\, he instead delivered a philosophical defense of Christianit
 y — and was executed for refusing to yield.
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UID:alphege-of-canterbury@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260419
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Alphege
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop\, Martyr. Patron of —. He refused to let a ransom 
 be raised for him\, knowing it would crush the poor\; his furious captor
 s pelted him to death with ox bones at a feast.
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UID:agnes-of-montepulciano@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Agnes of Montepulciano
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Abbess. Patron of —. She was running a convent befor
 e she was out of her teens\, dispensed from age by the pope himself\, an
 d became one of Tuscany's most loved holy women.
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UID:anselm@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Anselm
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Theologians. He 
 twice went into exile rather than let kings control the Church — a philo
 sopher with a spine. "I do not seek to understand in order that I may be
 lieve\, but I believe in order to understand."
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UID:soter@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. Soter
DESCRIPTION:Pope\, Martyr. Patron of —. A letter survives thanking him be
 cause the church of Rome under his care sent help to Christians across t
 he empire — 'from the beginning\, your custom.'
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UID:george@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260423
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. George
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of England\, soldiers\, scouts. Long before th
 e dragon legend\, soldiers venerated him simply as a soldier brave enoug
 h to defy an emperor to his face.
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UID:fidelis-of-sigmaringen@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Martyr. Patron of Lawyers. He left the law because h
 e would not defend injustice\, became a friar\, and was cut down preachi
 ng in the mountains — the first martyr of the missions of his order.
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UID:mark@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260425
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Mark the Evangelist
DESCRIPTION:Evangelist. Patron of Venice\, notaries\, lions. His Gospel i
 s widely considered Peter's memories written down — the apostle's eyewit
 ness preaching in book form. "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Chris
 t\, the Son of God. (Mk 1:1)"
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UID:our-lady-of-good-counsel@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260426
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Good Counsel
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of Those seeking guidance. By tradition 
 the image appeared at Genazzano in 1467\; for centuries since\, the fait
 hful have come to ask Mary's counsel before hard choices.
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UID:zita-of-lucca@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260427
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Zita
DESCRIPTION:Virgin. Patron of Domestic workers\, housekeepers. She is the
  patron of maids and housekeepers — a servant who proved that sanctity i
 s built out of ordinary chores done faithfully and with love.
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UID:gianna-beretta-molla@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Gianna Beretta Molla
DESCRIPTION:Wife\, Mother\, Physician. Patron of Mothers\, unborn childre
 n. A modern working mother and doctor\, she chose her unborn daughter's 
 life over her own — and was canonized in 2004 with that daughter present
 . "Love and sacrifice are closely linked\, like the sun and the light."
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UID:catherine-of-siena@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260429
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Catherine of Siena
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Italy\, Europe\, nur
 ses\, against fire. She talked Pope Gregory XI into moving the papacy ba
 ck to Rome from Avignon. A laywoman in her twenties redirected the Churc
 h. "Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire."
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UID:pius-v@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. Pius V
DESCRIPTION:Pope. Patron of —. He kept his coarse white Dominican habit a
 s pope — which is why popes have worn white ever since — and credited th
 e win at Lepanto to the Rosary.
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UID:joseph-the-worker@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260501
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Joseph the Worker
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of Workers\, laborers\, employment. The feast w
 as deliberately placed on May 1 — a Christian answer to May Day\, claimi
 ng work itself for God.
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UID:athanasius@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260502
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Athanasius
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Theologians\, defend
 ers of orthodoxy. The saying 'Athanasius contra mundum' — Athanasius aga
 inst the world — exists because at times he nearly was. "The Son of God 
 became man so that we might become God."
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UID:philip-james@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260503
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Philip & James
DESCRIPTION:Apostles. Patron of Uruguay (Philip)\; pharmacists (James). P
 hilip's blunt request — 'show us the Father' — earned one of the Gospel'
 s greatest replies: 'Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.'
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UID:florian@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260504
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Florian
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Firefighters. By tradition he once saved a 
 town from fire\, and is invoked against fire and flood — the patron of f
 irefighters across Europe to this day.
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UID:hilary-of-arles@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Hilary of Arles
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. He sold church plate and even melted dow
 n sacred vessels to buy back prisoners taken in the raids of his trouble
 d age.
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UID:dominic-savio@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Dominic Savio
DESCRIPTION:Student. Patron of Choirboys\, the falsely accused. He is one
  of the youngest non-martyrs ever canonized — a teenager whose motto was
  simply 'Death rather than sin.' "Death rather than sin."
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UID:rose-venerini@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260507
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Rose Venerini
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Foundress. Patron of Teachers. She founded over fort
 y free schools for girls at a time when few thought girls worth educatin
 g — a pioneer of public education for women.
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UID:apparition-of-st-michael@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260508
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of Soldiers\, the sick. The mountain shrine of 
 Monte Gargano\, marking his apparition there around 490\, is the oldest 
 sanctuary in Western Europe dedicated to St. Michael.
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UID:pachomius@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260509
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Pachomius the Great
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of —. Before him\, monks lived alone\; he inven
 ted the monastery — common life\, common work\, and a daily rule — the p
 attern every religious order still follows.
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UID:damien-of-molokai@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260510
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Damien of Molokai
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Missionary. Patron of People with leprosy\, outcasts
 \, Hawaii. His sermon greeting changed one Sunday from 'My dear brethren
 ' to 'We lepers.' He had chosen to share everything — including the dise
 ase. "I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.
 "
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UID:mamertus-of-vienne@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Mamertus
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. The springtime Rogation processions to b
 less the fields\, kept across Europe for fifteen centuries\, began with 
 him as a response to calamity.
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UID:pancras-of-rome@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Pancras
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Children\, oaths. This teenage martyr's nam
 e spread as far as England — the London district and railway station of 
 St. Pancras are named for him.
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UID:our-lady-of-fatima@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260513
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Fatima
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of Portugal\, peace. The final apparitio
 n's 'Miracle of the Sun' was witnessed by a crowd of about 70\,000 — inc
 luding skeptical secular journalists who reported it. "Pray the Rosary e
 very day to obtain peace for the world."
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UID:matthias@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Matthias
DESCRIPTION:Apostle. Patron of Tailors\, carpenters\, hope in alcoholism 
 recovery. His one qualification\, per Acts: he had been with Jesus from 
 the beginning. Faithful presence was the whole résumé.
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UID:isidore-the-farmer@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260515
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Isidore the Farmer
DESCRIPTION:Layman. Patron of Farmers\, rural communities\, laborers. Fel
 low workers complained he arrived late from morning Mass — until\, legen
 d says\, they saw angels plowing alongside him to make up the time.
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UID:brendan-the-navigator@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260516
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Brendan the Navigator
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of Sailors\, travelers. His sea-saga\, the 'Voy
 age of St. Brendan\,' had medieval readers wondering whether an Irish mo
 nk reached America a thousand years before Columbus.
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UID:paschal-baylon@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260517
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Paschal Baylon
DESCRIPTION:Religious\, Friar. Patron of Eucharistic congresses. A self-t
 aught shepherd who learned to read so he could study the faith\, he was 
 named patron of all Eucharistic congresses and societies.
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UID:eric-of-sweden@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Eric of Sweden
DESCRIPTION:King\, Martyr. Patron of Sweden. Attacked as he came out of c
 hurch\, he is honored as the patron saint of Sweden\, his image still on
  the arms of Stockholm.
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UID:dunstan@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Dunstan
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop. Patron of Goldsmiths\, blacksmiths. A skilled met
 alworker\, he is patron of goldsmiths and blacksmiths — and legend says 
 he once seized the devil by the nose with his red-hot tongs.
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UID:bernardine-of-siena@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bernardine of Siena
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Missionary. Patron of Advertisers\, public relations
 \, gamblers. He's the patron of advertising — his 'IHS' monogram campaig
 ns were so effective that playing-card makers complained he was ruining 
 their business.
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UID:christopher-magallanes-companions@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Christopher Magallanes & Companions
DESCRIPTION:Priests & Martyrs. Patron of Mexico. Forbidden to function as
  a priest\, Christopher Magallanes ran a secret seminary\; arrested on t
 he way to say Mass\, he absolved his executioners before they fired.
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UID:rita-of-cascia@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260522
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Rita of Cascia
DESCRIPTION:Religious\, Widow. Patron of Impossible causes\, abuse victim
 s\, difficult marriages. She's the 'saint of the impossible' — every doo
 r in her life closed\, and every one eventually opened.
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UID:john-baptist-de-rossi@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260523
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Baptist de Rossi
DESCRIPTION:Priest. Patron of —. He turned a hostel for the homeless into
  a center of mercy and spent his nights in the confessional for cab driv
 ers\, laborers\, and outcasts.
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UID:our-lady-help-of-christians@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260524
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady Help of Christians
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of Australia\, families. St. John Bosco 
 built his great Turin basilica under this title and said every brick was
  a grace from Our Lady\, Help of Christians.
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UID:bede-the-venerable@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260525
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bede the Venerable
DESCRIPTION:Monk\, Doctor of the Church. Patron of Historians\, scholars.
  His 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People' is why we know early
  England at all — and he helped popularize counting years as 'AD\,' from
  the birth of Christ.
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UID:philip-neri@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Philip Neri
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Founder. Patron of Joy\, humor\, Rome. He sometimes 
 wore his clothes inside out or shaved half his beard — deliberately cour
 ting ridicule to stay humble. "A joyful heart is more easily made perfec
 t than a downcast one."
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UID:augustine-of-canterbury@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260527
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Augustine of Canterbury
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Apostle of England. Patron of England. He and his mo
 nks nearly turned back in fear of the 'barbarian' English. Gregory's let
 ter ordering them onward changed the history of England.
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UID:bernard-of-montjoux@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bernard of Montjoux
DESCRIPTION:Priest. Patron of Mountaineers\, the Alps. The Alpine passes\
 , the hospices\, and the famous rescue dogs all bear his name — he is th
 e patron saint of mountaineers and skiers.
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UID:paul-vi@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260529
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. Paul VI
DESCRIPTION:Pope. Patron of —. He was the first pope in over a century to
  leave Italy\, carrying his message to five continents and to the United
  Nations itself. "If you want peace\, work for justice."
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UID:joan-of-arc@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260530
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Joan of Arc
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Martyr of Conscience. Patron of France\, soldiers\, 
 prisoners. The Church court that condemned her was overturned 25 years l
 ater\; the English soldier who watched her burn reportedly cried\, 'We h
 ave burned a saint.' "I am not afraid. I was born to do this."
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UID:visitation@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260531
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of —. At this meeting the unborn John the Bapti
 st 'leaps for joy' in Elizabeth's womb\, and Mary sings the Magnificat\,
  the Church's evening prayer ever since. "My soul magnifies the Lord\, a
 nd my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."
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UID:justin-martyr@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Justin Martyr
DESCRIPTION:Philosopher & Martyr. Patron of Philosophers\, apologists. Hi
 s writings include the earliest outsider-readable description of the Mas
 s — from around 155 AD\, and instantly recognizable today. "You can kill
  us\, but you cannot hurt us."
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UID:erasmus-of-formia@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Erasmus (Elmo)
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr. Patron of Sailors. The blue electrical glow 
 seen on ships' masts in a storm — 'St. Elmo's fire' — was taken by sailo
 rs as a sign of his protection and named for him.
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UID:charles-lwanga@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Charles Lwanga & Companions
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs of Uganda. Patron of African youth\, converts\, tortu
 re victims. As he burned\, he reportedly said quietly\, 'You are burning
  me\, but it is as if you are pouring water over my body.' Uganda is now
  majority Christian.
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UID:francis-caracciolo@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Francis Caracciolo
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Founder. Patron of Naples. His order kept the Euchar
 ist watched in unbroken adoration\, the brothers taking turns day and ni
 ght — a practice he carried to his own death.
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UID:boniface@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260605
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Boniface
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr\, Apostle of Germany. Patron of Germany\, bre
 wers. When the oak fell and no god struck him down\, the watching tribes
  converted. He built a chapel from its wood. "Let us be neither dogs tha
 t do not bark nor silent onlookers\, but faithful watchmen."
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UID:norbert@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260606
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Norbert
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Founder. Patron of Against false accusations. Struck
  from his horse by lightning and spared\, he gave away his wealth and be
 came a reformer of clergy and a famed promoter of devotion to the Euchar
 ist.
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UID:robert-of-newminster@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260607
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Robert of Newminster
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of —. Known for his mildness and his nights of 
 prayer\, he founded three more monasteries from his own\, spreading the 
 reform across northern England.
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UID:medard@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260608
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Médard
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Weather\, vineyards. French weather-lore sa
 ys that as it goes on his feast\, so it goes for forty days — the countr
 y's own version of the St. Swithin's Day rain legend.
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UID:ephrem@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260609
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Ephrem the Syrian
DESCRIPTION:Deacon & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Spiritual directors\
 , hymn writers. He fought heresy with melody: heretics were winning conv
 erts through catchy songs\, so he wrote better ones.
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UID:landry-of-paris@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260610
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Landry of Paris
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Paris. He is credited with founding the Hôt
 el-Dieu\, the great Paris hospital that has cared for the city's sick fo
 r more than thirteen centuries.
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UID:barnabas@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260611
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Barnabas
DESCRIPTION:Apostle. Patron of Cyprus\, against hailstorms\, peacemakers.
  No Barnabas\, no Paul: he's the one who convinced the terrified Jerusal
 em church that their persecutor had truly converted.
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UID:onuphrius@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260612
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Onuphrius
DESCRIPTION:Hermit. Patron of —. His extreme solitude made him a favorite
  subject of medieval art across Europe — the wild-haired hermit fed\, it
  was said\, by an angel.
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UID:anthony-of-padua@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260613
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Anthony of Padua
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Lost things\, the po
 or\, Portugal. He's invoked for lost things because a novice stole his p
 salter and\, after Anthony prayed\, hastily returned it. "Actions speak 
 louder than words\; let your words teach and your actions speak."
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UID:methodius-i-of-constantinople@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260614
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Methodius I of Constantinople
DESCRIPTION:Patriarch. Patron of —. He presided over the 'Triumph of Orth
 odoxy' in 843\, the day the Eastern Church restored its icons for good —
  still celebrated every year in the East.
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UID:vitus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260615
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Vitus
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Dancers\, against epilepsy. The nervous dis
 order 'St. Vitus' Dance' is named for him\, after the dancing done at hi
 s shrines on his feast in hope of good health.
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UID:john-francis-regis@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Francis Regis
DESCRIPTION:Priest. Patron of Social workers\, lacemakers. He set up work
 rooms making lace so that poor women had honest work\, and died of exhau
 stion after preaching a winter mission on foot through the snow.
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UID:albert-chmielowski@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260617
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Albert Chmielowski
DESCRIPTION:Religious\, Founder. Patron of The homeless. A celebrated pai
 nter who gave it all up for the poor\, he became the hero of a play by t
 he young Karol Wojtyła — later Pope John Paul II\, who canonized him.
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UID:elizabeth-of-schonau@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260618
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Elizabeth of Schönau
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Mystic. Patron of —. A friend and correspondent of H
 ildegard of Bingen\, she was one of the most read of the medieval women 
 visionaries in her own century.
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UID:romuald@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260619
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Romuald
DESCRIPTION:Abbot & Founder. Patron of Hermits. His rule for hermits begi
 ns: 'Sit in your cell as in paradise. Put the whole world behind you and
  forget it.' "Sit in your cell as in paradise. Put the whole world behin
 d you and forget it."
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UID:alban@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260620
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Alban
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Converts\, refugees. He died in another man
 's place — giving the hunted priest his own cloak to escape — and the ci
 ty of St Albans grew up around his grave.
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UID:aloysius-gonzaga@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260621
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Aloysius Gonzaga
DESCRIPTION:Religious. Patron of Youth\, students\, caregivers\, plague v
 ictims. Asked as a child playing at recreation what he would do if the w
 orld ended in an hour\, he answered: 'Keep playing.' He was where God wa
 nted him.
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UID:thomas-more@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Thomas More & John Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of Lawyers\, statesmen\, politicians (More)\;
  bishops (Fisher). More's last words on the scaffold: 'I die the King's 
 good servant\, but God's first.' He joked with his executioner on the wa
 y up. "I die the King's good servant\, but God's first."
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UID:joseph-cafasso@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Joseph Cafasso
DESCRIPTION:Priest. Patron of Prisoners. He accompanied dozens of men to 
 the gallows\, won them to repentance at the last\, and called them affec
 tionately his 'hanged saints.'
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UID:john-the-baptist@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Nativity of St. John the Baptist
DESCRIPTION:Solemnity. Patron of Baptism\, converts\, tailors. His birthd
 ay sits near the summer solstice as days shorten\, Christ's near the win
 ter solstice as days lengthen: 'He must increase\; I must decrease\,' bu
 ilt into the calendar. "He must increase\; I must decrease."
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UID:william-of-vercelli@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260625
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. William of Vercelli
DESCRIPTION:Abbot\, Founder. Patron of —. Crowds drawn by his holiness fo
 llowed him into the wilderness\, and the hermit's mountain became one of
  southern Italy's great pilgrim sanctuaries.
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UID:josemaria-escriva@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260626
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Josemaría Escrivá
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Founder. Patron of Ordinary work\, people with diabe
 tes. His core message in one line: you don't have to leave the world to 
 become a saint\; sanctify your desk\, your kitchen\, your commute. "Grea
 t holiness consists in carrying out the little duties of each moment."
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UID:cyril-of-alexandria@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260627
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Cyril of Alexandria
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Doctor of the Church. Patron of Theologians. It was 
 his teaching that carried the day at Ephesus in 431\, when the Church de
 fined that Mary is truly the Mother of God.
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UID:irenaeus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260628
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Irenaeus
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Apologists\
 , unity. He's two handshakes from Jesus: Irenaeus learned from Polycarp\
 , who learned from John\, who leaned on Christ's chest at the Last Suppe
 r. "The glory of God is man fully alive."
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UID:peter-paul@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260629
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Peter & Paul
DESCRIPTION:Apostles\, Solemnity. Patron of Rome\, the papacy (Peter)\; m
 issionaries\, writers (Paul). Peter was crucified upside down at his own
  request\, judging himself unworthy to die as his Lord did\; Paul\, a Ro
 man citizen\, was beheaded. "Lord\, to whom shall we go? You have the wo
 rds of eternal life. (Peter)"
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UID:first-martyrs-of-rome@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260630
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of —. Blamed for a fire he likely set himself
 \, Nero had Christians covered in pitch and burned as torches in his gar
 dens — the Church's first great host of martyrs.
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UID:junipero-serra@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Junípero Serra
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Missionary. Patron of California\, vocations. San Di
 ego\, San Francisco\, Santa Clara — the map of California is largely a l
 ist of his missions. "Always go forward\, never turn back."
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UID:otto-of-bamberg@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260702
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Otto of Bamberg
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Pomerania. Where armed crusades had failed\
 , he baptized tens of thousands by going unarmed\, learning the people's
  needs\, and earning the name 'Apostle of Pomerania.'
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UID:thomas-apostle@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260703
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Thomas the Apostle
DESCRIPTION:Apostle. Patron of India\, architects\, doubters. The 'Thomas
  Christians' of India trace their church to his preaching in 52 AD — old
 er than Christianity in most of Europe. "My Lord and my God!"
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UID:elizabeth-of-portugal@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260704
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Elizabeth of Portugal
DESCRIPTION:Queen. Patron of Peace\, against war. More than once she rode
  out between battle lines to reconcile her husband\, her son\, and rival
  kings — earning her enduring title\, 'the Peacemaker.'
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UID:anthony-zaccaria@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260705
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Founder. Patron of Physicians. He helped revive the 
 custom of ringing church bells at three on Friday afternoon in memory of
  the Crucifixion\, and died worn out at thirty-six.
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UID:maria-goretti@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260706
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Maria Goretti
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Martyr. Patron of Youth\, victims of assault\, forgi
 veness. Her murderer repented after a dream of her in prison\, attended 
 her canonization in 1950\, and sat in the crowd beside her mother. "I fo
 rgive him\, and I want him with me in heaven forever."
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UID:willibald@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260707
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Willibald
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. His travels — written down by a nun who 
 heard them from his own lips — make him the first known Englishman to vi
 sit the Holy Land\, and one of the earliest travel writers.
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UID:kilian@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260708
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Kilian
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr. Patron of Würzburg. Called the 'Apostle of F
 ranconia\,' he and his companions were killed for telling a duke his mar
 riage was unlawful — and Würzburg keeps his feast as its great festival.
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UID:augustine-zhao-rong@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs of China. Patron of China. Zhao Rong guarded a bishop
  being marched to execution\, was converted by his patience\, became a p
 riest\, and was martyred himself.
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UID:seven-holy-brothers@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260710
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Seven Holy Brothers
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of —. Their story echoes the Old Testament mo
 ther of the Maccabees — a mother watching all seven sons die rather than
  deny God\, and counted a martyr with them.
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UID:benedict@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260711
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Benedict of Nursia
DESCRIPTION:Abbot\, Father of Western Monasticism. Patron of Europe\, stu
 dents\, against poison. His monasteries copied the books\, kept the scho
 ols\, and farmed the land through the Dark Ages. 'Ora et labora' — pray 
 and work — rebuilt Europe. "Prefer nothing whatever to Christ."
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UID:louis-zelie-martin@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260712
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Louis & Zélie Martin
DESCRIPTION:Married Couple. Patron of Marriage\, parents. They are the fi
 rst married couple ever canonized together\, honored in 2015 as proof th
 at holiness grows in laundry\, work\, and the raising of children.
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UID:henry-ii@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260713
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Henry II
DESCRIPTION:Emperor. Patron of The childless. The only German king ever c
 anonized\, he is honored not for conquest but for ruling justly\, reform
 ing the Church\, and his childless\, prayerful marriage.
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UID:kateri-tekakwitha@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260714
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Kateri Tekakwitha
DESCRIPTION:Virgin. Patron of Native Americans\, ecology\, exiles. Witnes
 ses at her death swore her smallpox scars vanished within minutes — the 
 'Lily of the Mohawks' is the first Native American saint. "Who can tell 
 me what is most pleasing to God\, that I may do it?"
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UID:bonaventure@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260715
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bonaventure
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Theologians. When pa
 pal envoys brought his cardinal's hat\, they found him washing dishes. H
 e asked them to hang it on a tree until he finished.
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UID:our-lady-of-mount-carmel@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260716
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Mount Carmel
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of The Carmelite Order\, deliverance fro
 m purgatory. The brown scapular associated with this feast is one of the
  most worn devotional objects in history — two small squares of wool clo
 th.
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UID:martyrs-of-compiegne@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260717
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Martyrs of Compiègne
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of —. They mounted the guillotine one by one\
 , each kneeling for the prioress's blessing and singing — and within ten
  days the Terror itself collapsed.
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UID:frederick-of-utrecht@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260718
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Frederick of Utrecht
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr. Patron of —. He pressed the conversion of th
 e northern Frisians and paid for his outspokenness with his life\, struc
 k down after celebrating Mass.
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UID:macrina-the-younger@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260719
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Macrina the Younger
DESCRIPTION:Virgin. Patron of —. She shaped two of the greatest Fathers o
 f the Church — her own brothers — and Gregory wrote a whole book recordi
 ng her wise\, serene death.
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UID:margaret-of-antioch@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260720
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Margaret of Antioch
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Martyr. Patron of Childbirth\, expectant mothers. On
 e of the heavenly voices St. Joan of Arc said she heard\, she was among 
 the most venerated saints of the Middle Ages and a patron of safe childb
 irth.
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UID:lawrence-of-brindisi@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260721
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Lawrence of Brindisi
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Doctor of the Church. Patron of —. He could read the
  Scriptures in their original Hebrew and Greek\, debated the learned of 
 every faith\, and rode at the head of an army holding only a cross.
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UID:mary-magdalene@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260722
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Mary Magdalene
DESCRIPTION:Apostle to the Apostles. Patron of Converts\, contemplatives\
 , women. The risen Christ appeared first not to Peter or John but to her
 \, and sent her to tell them — earning her the ancient title 'Apostle to
  the Apostles.' "I have seen the Lord."
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UID:bridget-of-sweden@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260723
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bridget of Sweden
DESCRIPTION:Mystic & Foundress. Patron of Europe\, Sweden\, widows. She m
 anaged a castle\, raised eight children (one a canonized saint\, Catheri
 ne of Sweden)\, and still found time to scold a pope back to Rome.
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UID:sharbel-makhlouf@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260724
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Sharbel Makhlouf
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Hermit. Patron of Lebanon. A simple mountain hermit 
 little known in life\, he became after death one of the most beloved mir
 acle-working saints of the Middle East.
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UID:james-the-greater@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260725
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. James the Greater
DESCRIPTION:Apostle. Patron of Spain\, pilgrims\, laborers. The Camino de
  Santiago to his shrine in Spain still draws nearly half a million walke
 rs a year\, 12 centuries after the route began.
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UID:joachim-anne@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260726
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Joachim & Anne
DESCRIPTION:Parents of the Virgin Mary. Patron of Grandparents\, mothers\
 , miners. The Church celebrates the grandparents of Jesus — a feast that
  quietly canonizes the hidden work of every grandparent.
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UID:pantaleon@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260727
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Pantaleon
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Physicians. He treated the sick for free as
  a 'silver-less' physician\, and became one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
  and a patron of doctors and midwives.
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UID:stanley-rother@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260728
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Bl. Stanley Rother
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Martyr. Patron of —. Warned his name was on a death 
 list\, he said 'the shepherd cannot run' and stayed — the first U.S.-bor
 n martyr and the first American-born priest beatified.
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UID:martha@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260729
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Martha\, Mary & Lazarus
DESCRIPTION:Friends of the Lord. Patron of Cooks\, hosts\, homemakers (Ma
 rtha). Martha gets remembered for being busy\, but she delivered one of 
 the Gospel's greatest confessions of faith: 'You are the Christ\, the So
 n of God.' "Yes\, Lord\, I believe that you are the Christ\, the Son of 
 God. (Martha)"
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UID:peter-chrysologus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260730
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Peter Chrysologus
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Doctor of the Church. Patron of —. He kept his homil
 ies short on purpose\, fearing to tire his hearers — and that very brevi
 ty preserved them and made his name for fifteen centuries.
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UID:ignatius-of-loyola@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260731
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Ignatius of Loyola
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Founder of the Jesuits. Patron of Soldiers\, retreat
 s\, educators. Stuck in bed\, he wanted romance novels\; the castle only
  had a life of Christ and the saints. The boredom of one knight became t
 he Jesuit order. "Go forth and set the world on fire."
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UID:alphonsus-liguori@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260801
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Alphonsus Liguori
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Confessors\, moral t
 heologians\, arthritis sufferers. He passed the bar at 16 and reportedly
  never lost a case in 8 years — until the one loss that drove him to a f
 ar better verdict. "He who prays is certainly saved\; he who does not pr
 ay is certainly damned."
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UID:peter-julian-eymard@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260802
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Peter Julian Eymard
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Founder. Patron of —. Called the 'Apostle of the Euc
 harist\,' he gave up everything to promote adoration of Christ in the Sa
 crament\, founding both priests' and sisters' communities for it.
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UID:lydia-of-thyatira@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260803
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Lydia
DESCRIPTION:—. Patron of Dyers\, merchants. She is the first recorded Eur
 opean convert to Christianity — and her house became the very first Chri
 stian church on the European continent.
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UID:john-vianney@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260804
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Vianney
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Curé of Ars. Patron of Parish priests. He nearly flu
 nked out of seminary over Latin. By the end\, he was hearing confessions
  16 hours a day and France was building special train lines to reach him
 . "Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself."
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UID:dedication-of-st-mary-major@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260805
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Dedication of St. Mary Major
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of —. Legend says Mary marked out the ch
 urch by a miraculous August snowfall on the Esquiline Hill — and each ye
 ar white petals are showered down to recall it.
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UID:transfiguration@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260806
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Transfiguration of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of —. For a moment the three apostles saw Chris
 t's hidden glory blaze out — a foretaste of Easter given to steady them 
 before his Passion. "This is my beloved Son\, with whom I am well please
 d\; listen to him."
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UID:cajetan@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260807
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Cajetan
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Founder. Patron of The unemployed\, job seekers. He 
 founded a 'mount of piety' — a non-profit pawnshop lending to the poor w
 ithout crushing interest — and is invoked today by the unemployed and jo
 b seekers.
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UID:dominic@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260808
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Dominic
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Founder. Patron of Astronomers\, the Dominican Order
 \, preachers. As a student he sold his hand-copied books — worth a fortu
 ne — to feed famine victims: 'I will not study on dead skins while livin
 g skins starve.' "Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword."
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UID:teresa-benedicta@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260809
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Martyr\, Co-Patroness of Europe. Patron of Europe\, 
 converted Jews\, loss of parents. She read Teresa of Ávila's autobiograp
 hy cover to cover in a single night and closed it saying: 'This is the t
 ruth.' "The world doesn't need what women have\, it needs what women are
 ."
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UID:lawrence@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260810
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Lawrence
DESCRIPTION:Deacon & Martyr. Patron of Cooks\, comedians\, the poor\, lib
 rarians. Mid-martyrdom\, he reportedly told his executioners: 'Turn me o
 ver — this side is done.' The Church made him patron of both cooks and c
 omedians. "Behold\, these are the treasures of the Church."
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UID:clare@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260811
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Clare of Assisi
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Foundress. Patron of Television\, eye disease\, embr
 oiderers. She's the patron of television because\, too ill for Christmas
  Mass\, she saw and heard it on her cell wall — a vision\, centuries bef
 ore screens. "Love that cannot suffer is not worthy of that name."
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UID:jane-frances-de-chantal@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Jane Frances de Chantal
DESCRIPTION:Widow\, Foundress. Patron of Widows\, parents separated from 
 children. With Francis de Sales she created an order that welcomed the w
 idowed\, the frail\, and the older woman — communities of gentleness rat
 her than harsh penance.
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UID:pontian-and-hippolytus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260813
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Pontian & Hippolytus
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of —. Bitter opponents in life — one a pope\,
  the other the first antipope — they made peace in the mines and died as
  brother martyrs.
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UID:maximilian-kolbe@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260814
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Maximilian Kolbe
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Martyr of Charity. Patron of Prisoners\, journalists
 \, drug addicts\, families. The man he saved\, Franciszek Gajowniczek\, 
 lived to 94 and attended his canonization. 'I want to take his place. He
  has a wife and children.' "No one in the world can change Truth."
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UID:assumption@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260815
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:Solemnity. Patron of —. No church has ever claimed the bones 
 of Mary. For apostolic-era figures\, that silence is itself the argument
 .
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UID:stephen-of-hungary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260816
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Stephen of Hungary
DESCRIPTION:King. Patron of Hungary. He turned a pagan people into a Chri
 stian kingdom in a single generation\, and the Holy Crown of St. Stephen
  remained Hungary's emblem for a thousand years.
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UID:hyacinth-of-poland@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260817
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Hyacinth of Poland
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Friar. Patron of —. Called the 'Apostle of the North
 \,' he traveled thousands of miles preaching from Poland to the Baltic a
 nd the edge of Russia\, founding convents as he went.
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UID:helena@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260818
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Helena
DESCRIPTION:Empress. Patron of Archaeologists\, converts. By tradition he
 r excavations in Jerusalem uncovered the True Cross — and the basilicas 
 she raised at Bethlehem and the Holy Sepulchre still stand in part today
 .
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UID:john-eudes@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Eudes
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Founder. Patron of —. He composed the first liturgic
 al texts honoring the Sacred Heart\, decades before the famous visions a
 t Paray-le-Monial made the devotion universal.
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UID:bernard-of-clairvaux@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260820
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
DESCRIPTION:Abbot & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Beekeepers\, Cisterci
 ans\, candlemakers. He was so persuasive that mothers reportedly hid the
 ir sons when he came recruiting. He arrived at the monastery with 30 con
 verts\, including his own brothers. "You will find something more in woo
 ds than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can nev
 er learn from masters."
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UID:pius-x@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260821
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Pius X
DESCRIPTION:Pope. Patron of First communicants\, pilgrims. Born a poor vi
 llage postman's son\, he walked miles to school barefoot to save shoe le
 ather — and never stopped living simply\, even as pope. "Holy Communion 
 is the shortest and safest way to Heaven."
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:queenship-of-mary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260822
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:Marian Memorial. Patron of —. Placed deliberately eight days 
 after the Assumption\, it completes that feast: she who was taken up bod
 y and soul is honored now as queen beside Christ the King.
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UID:rose-of-lima@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260823
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Rose of Lima
DESCRIPTION:Virgin. Patron of The Americas\, Peru\, florists\, gardeners.
  She was the first canonized saint born in the Americas — the New World'
 s first official saint was a laywoman who never left her hometown. "Apar
 t from the cross\, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heave
 n."
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UID:bartholomew@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260824
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bartholomew
DESCRIPTION:Apostle. Patron of Armenia\, leatherworkers\, plasterers. His
  brutal martyrdom (flayed alive\, by tradition) is why Michelangelo pain
 ted him in the Sistine Chapel holding his own skin — with Michelangelo's
  face on it. "Rabbi\, you are the Son of God\; you are the King of Israe
 l. (as Nathanael)"
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UID:louis-ix@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Louis of France
DESCRIPTION:King. Patron of France\, the Third Order. He washed the feet 
 of beggars\, settled disputes under an oak in his garden\, and built the
  Sainte-Chapelle to house relics of Christ's Passion.
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UID:our-lady-of-czestochowa@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Częstochowa
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of Poland. The scarred face of the Black
  Madonna — slashed by raiders centuries ago — has made the icon a sign o
 f a nation's wounds and endurance\, drawing millions of pilgrims.
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UID:monica@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260827
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Monica
DESCRIPTION:Mother. Patron of Mothers\, difficult marriages\, wayward chi
 ldren. A bishop once told her\, 'It is not possible that the son of so m
 any tears should perish.' He was right. "Nothing is far from God."
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UID:augustine@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260828
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Augustine of Hippo
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Theologians\, printe
 rs\, brewers. His honest prayer from his wild years: 'Lord\, make me cha
 ste — but not yet.' Few saints have documented their flaws so thoroughly
 . "You have made us for yourself\, O Lord\, and our heart is restless un
 til it rests in you."
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UID:passion-of-john-the-baptist@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260829
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Passion of St. John the Baptist
DESCRIPTION:Memorial. Patron of —. The last of the prophets died for tell
 ing a king the truth about his marriage — silenced by a rash oath sworn 
 over a banquet.
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UID:jeanne-jugan@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260830
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Jeanne Jugan
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Foundress. Patron of The elderly. Pushed aside in he
 r own community for decades\, she spent her last 27 years in obscurity a
 mong the novices — who never knew she had founded the order.
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UID:raymond-nonnatus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260831
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Raymond Nonnatus
DESCRIPTION:Religious. Patron of Midwives\, expectant mothers. His name m
 eans 'not born' — delivered after his mother died — which\, with his ran
 soming of captives\, made him patron of midwives and expectant mothers.
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UID:giles@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Giles
DESCRIPTION:Hermit\, Abbot. Patron of The disabled\, beggars. Legend says
  a king's arrow meant for his pet deer struck Giles instead\, leaving hi
 m lame — which is why he became patron of the disabled and beggars.
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UID:martyrs-of-september-1792@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Martyrs of September 1792
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of —. Offered their lives if they would swear
  an oath against the Church\, more than a hundred and ninety chose death
  in the Paris prisons in a single bloody week.
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UID:gregory-the-great@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260903
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Gregory the Great
DESCRIPTION:Pope & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Musicians\, singers\, 
 students\, teachers. Gregorian chant bears his name. So does the job des
 cription he wrote for popes: 'servant of the servants of God' — still us
 ed today. "The proof of love is in the works."
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UID:rose-of-viterbo@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260904
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Rose of Viterbo
DESCRIPTION:Virgin. Patron of Young people. Barely into her teens\, she s
 tood on the street corners of her city preaching loyalty to the Church —
  and was banished for it before she was grown.
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UID:teresa-of-calcutta@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260905
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Teresa of Calcutta
DESCRIPTION:Religious Foundress. Patron of World Youth Day\, the poorest 
 of the poor. Her private letters revealed she felt God's absence for nea
 rly 50 years — and served joyfully anyway. Her faith ran deeper than fee
 lings. "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things wi
 th great love."
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UID:magnus-of-fussen@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260906
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Magnus of Füssen
DESCRIPTION:Abbot\, Missionary. Patron of Against vermin and storms. Coun
 try folk of the Alps long invoked him against vermin\, pests\, and storm
 s that threatened the harvest — the 'Apostle of the Allgäu.'
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UID:cloud-of-paris@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260907
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Cloud
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Monk. Patron of —. Heir to a Frankish kingdom whose 
 family killed for power\, he cut off his royal hair himself and chose a 
 monk's cell — the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud bears his name.
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UID:nativity-of-mary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260908
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of —. Hers is one of only three birthdays the C
 hurch celebrates — Jesus\, John the Baptist\, and Mary — because her bir
 th was the near dawn of salvation.
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UID:peter-claver@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260909
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Peter Claver
DESCRIPTION:Priest. Patron of Slaves\, Colombia\, race relations\, seafar
 ers. He personally baptized an estimated 300\,000 people — and signed hi
 s vows 'Peter Claver\, slave of the slaves forever.' "We must speak to t
 hem with our hands before we try to speak to them with our lips."
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UID:nicholas-of-tolentino@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Nicholas of Tolentino
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Friar. Patron of Holy souls in purgatory. Told in a 
 vision to pray for the dead\, he became the great patron of the holy sou
 ls in purgatory — and is said to have refused all food but bread soaked 
 with a sign of the cross.
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UID:john-gabriel-perboyre@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260911
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Gabriel Perboyre
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Martyr. Patron of China missions. He was bound to a 
 wooden cross and strangled — his death so resembling his Lord's that he 
 became the first canonized martyr of the China missions.
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UID:holy-name-of-mary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260912
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Most Holy Name of Mary
DESCRIPTION:Marian Memorial. Patron of —. It was made universal to thank 
 Mary for the Christian victory at Vienna in 1683 — won\, the king said\,
  under the banner of her holy name.
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UID:john-chrysostom@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260913
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Chrysostom
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Preachers\, orators\
 , Constantinople. His preaching was so good that congregations applauded
  mid-sermon — and he scolded them for it\, telling them to applaud with 
 their lives instead. "If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the chu
 rch door\, you will not find Him in the chalice."
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UID:exaltation-of-the-holy-cross@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of —. What was the cruelest of Roman executions
  the Church now lifts up in triumph: the Cross\, by which\, Christians b
 elieve\, the world was saved.
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UID:our-lady-of-sorrows@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Sorrows
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of Those who grieve. The feast falls the
  day after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: first the cross\, then the 
 one who stood beside it.
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UID:cornelius-and-cyprian@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian
DESCRIPTION:Pope & Bishop\, Martyrs. Patron of —. Cyprian\, the great Afr
 ican bishop and writer\, was beheaded outside Carthage\; his ally Pope C
 ornelius died in exile — two pillars of the early Church. "He cannot hav
 e God for his Father who does not have the Church for his Mother."
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UID:hildegard@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260917
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Hildegard of Bingen
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Musicians\, writers\
 , scientists. She wrote theology\, medicine\, natural science\, and some
  of the era's most performed music — and invented her own alphabet and l
 anguage on the side. "Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaz
 e at the beauty of earth's greenings. Now\, think."
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UID:joseph-of-cupertino@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260918
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Joseph of Cupertino
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Friar. Patron of Pilots\, students\, air travelers. 
 His many reported levitations during prayer made the 'flying friar' the 
 patron of pilots and air travelers — and\, because he struggled so at hi
 s own studies\, of students facing exams.
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UID:januarius@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Januarius
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr. Patron of Naples\, blood banks. Several time
 s a year the congealed blood of San Gennaro is held up in Naples cathedr
 al and seen to turn liquid again — a wonder watched by the whole city.
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UID:andrew-kim@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260920
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Andrew Kim Taegon & Companions
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs of Korea. Patron of Korea\, Korean clergy. Christiani
 ty entered Korea through books — laypeople studied smuggled texts and ba
 ptized each other. A church founded by readers\, watered by martyrs. "Th
 is is my last hour of life\, listen to me attentively: if I have held co
 mmunication with foreigners\, it has been for my religion and for my God
 ."
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UID:matthew@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260921
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Matthew
DESCRIPTION:Apostle & Evangelist. Patron of Accountants\, bankers\, tax c
 ollectors. His Gospel records the call with brutal brevity: Jesus saw hi
 m\, said 'Follow me\,' and he rose. The despised bookkeeper wrote one of
  the four Gospels.
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UID:maurice-and-theban-legion@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260922
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Maurice & the Theban Legion
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of Soldiers\, infantry. Ordered to turn on in
 nocent Christians\, the whole legion laid down its arms and accepted dea
 th together rather than spill innocent blood.
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UID:padre-pio@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Mystic. Patron of Civil defense volunteers\, adolesc
 ents\, stress relief. He was banned from public ministry for years on fa
 lse accusations and never once complained publicly. The Church that rest
 ricted him later canonized him. "Pray\, hope\, and don't worry."
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UID:our-lady-of-walsingham@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260924
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Walsingham
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of England. Called 'England's Nazareth\,
 ' the shrine drew kings on pilgrimage for five centuries until it was de
 stroyed at the Reformation — and was restored in modern times.
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UID:sergius-of-radonezh@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Sergius of Radonezh
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of Russia. From a single hut in the woods he re
 newed the faith of a whole nation\, and his blessing before the battle o
 f Kulikovo helped rally Russia against its overlords.
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UID:cosmas-and-damian@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260926
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Cosmas & Damian
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of Physicians\, pharmacists. Called 'the mone
 yless ones' for treating patients free of charge\, they are named in the
  Roman Canon of the Mass and are patrons of doctors and pharmacists.
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UID:vincent-de-paul@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260927
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Vincent de Paul
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Founder. Patron of Charities\, volunteers\, hospital
 s\, prisoners. He was enslaved in Tunis for two years as a young priest 
 after pirates captured his ship — then spent the rest of his life freein
 g others from every kind of chain. "It is only because of your love\, on
 ly your love\, that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them."
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UID:wenceslaus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260928
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Wenceslaus
DESCRIPTION:Duke\, Martyr. Patron of Bohemia\, the Czech people. He is th
 e 'Good King Wenceslas' of the Christmas carol — a real duke famous for 
 carrying firewood to the poor through the winter snow before his brother
  killed him.
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UID:archangels@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260929
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Michael\, Gabriel & Raphael
DESCRIPTION:Archangels. Patron of Police/soldiers (Michael)\; messengers 
 (Gabriel)\; travelers\, healing (Raphael). Their names are job descripti
 ons: Michael — 'Who is like God?'\; Gabriel — 'God is my strength'\; Rap
 hael — 'God heals.'
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UID:jerome@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260930
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Jerome
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Translators\, librar
 ians\, scholars. He had a temper that scorched even his friends\, provin
 g sanctity is a long road: holiness isn't a personality type. "Ignorance
  of Scripture is ignorance of Christ."
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UID:therese-of-lisieux@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261001
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Thérèse of Lisieux
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Missions\, France\, 
 florists\, aviators. She never went on a single mission trip\, yet is co
 -patron of all missionaries — because her hidden prayers and letters car
 ried them. "My vocation is love."
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UID:guardian-angels@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261002
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Holy Guardian Angels
DESCRIPTION:Memorial. Patron of —. The Church teaches every single person
  — believer or not — has a guardian angel. You have never once been alon
 e.
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UID:theodore-guerin@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261003
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Mother Théodore Guérin
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Foundress. Patron of Educators. Arriving in the Indi
 ana forest with almost nothing\, she built a women's college and a netwo
 rk of frontier schools — and is one of the founding saints of American C
 atholic education.
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UID:francis-of-assisi@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261004
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Francis of Assisi
DESCRIPTION:Founder of the Franciscans. Patron of Animals\, ecology\, Ita
 ly\, merchants. He created the first Nativity scene (Greccio\, 1223)\, t
 amed the legendary wolf of Gubbio\, and received the stigmata — history'
 s most imitated saint. "It is in giving that we receive\, and in dying t
 hat we are born to eternal life."
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UID:faustina@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261005
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Faustina Kowalska
DESCRIPTION:Religious & Mystic. Patron of Divine Mercy devotion. Her mess
 age in five words — 'Jesus\, I trust in You' — is now printed on images 
 in churches on every continent. "Jesus\, I trust in You."
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UID:bruno@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261006
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bruno
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Founder. Patron of —. He founded the strictest order
  in the Western Church — hermits living in silence and solitude — and th
 e Carthusians\, almost uniquely\, have never needed reform.
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UID:our-lady-of-the-rosary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261007
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of the Rosary
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of —. Pope Pius V asked all Europe to pr
 ay the Rosary as the fleets met at Lepanto. The feast was first called '
 Our Lady of Victory.'
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UID:pelagia-the-penitent@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261008
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Pelagia the Penitent
DESCRIPTION:Penitent. Patron of Actresses\, penitents. The most glamorous
  woman in the city walked away from fame and riches after a single sermo
 n\, and ended her days as an unknown hermit thought to be a man.
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UID:john-henry-newman@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261009
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Henry Newman
DESCRIPTION:Cardinal & Theologian. Patron of Seekers of truth\, educators
 . His conversion cost him friends\, family\, position\, and reputation o
 vernight. His motto: 'Heart speaks to heart.' "To live is to change\, an
 d to be perfect is to have changed often."
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UID:francis-borgia@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261010
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Francis Borgia
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Religious. Patron of —. Tasked with escorting a dead
  empress's coffin and seeing her beauty ruined\, he vowed never again to
  serve a master death could take from him — and became a Jesuit.
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UID:john-xxiii@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261011
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. John XXIII
DESCRIPTION:Pope. Patron of —. Elected at 76 as a supposed caretaker\, he
  instead opened the windows of the Church to the modern world by calling
  the Second Vatican Council. "See everything\; overlook a great deal\; c
 orrect a little."
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UID:carlo-acutis@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261012
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Carlo Acutis
DESCRIPTION:Layman. Patron of The internet\, computer programmers\, youth
 . He wore sneakers\, played video games (limiting himself to one hour a 
 week)\, coded websites — and is now a canonized saint. He called the Euc
 harist 'my highway to heaven.' "All people are born as originals\, but m
 any die as photocopies."
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UID:edward-the-confessor@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261013
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Edward the Confessor
DESCRIPTION:King. Patron of Difficult marriages\, kings. He rebuilt Westm
 inster Abbey\, where English monarchs have been crowned ever since\, and
  was for centuries England's royal patron saint before St. George.
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UID:callistus-i@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261014
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. Callistus I
DESCRIPTION:Pope\, Martyr. Patron of —. He went from convicted slave in t
 he mines to bishop of Rome\, and gave his name to the catacombs where ma
 ny early popes were buried.
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UID:teresa-of-avila@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261015
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Teresa of Ávila
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Spain\, headache suf
 ferers\, writers. Dumped from a cart into a river\, she heard God say\, 
 'This is how I treat my friends.' Her reply: 'Then it's no wonder You ha
 ve so few!' "Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All thin
 gs pass. God does not change. Patience obtains all things."
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UID:margaret-mary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261016
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Mystic. Patron of Devotees of the Sacred Heart\, pol
 io patients. The image of the Sacred Heart in millions of homes traces b
 ack to a quiet nun in a small French convent whom almost no one believed
  at first.
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UID:ignatius-of-antioch@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261017
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Ignatius of Antioch
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Martyr. Patron of The Church in the eastern Mediterr
 anean. His letter from the road\, c. 107 AD\, contains the earliest surv
 iving use of the phrase 'the Catholic Church.' "I am the wheat of God\, 
 and I must be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts\, that I may be fou
 nd the pure bread of Christ."
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UID:luke@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261018
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Luke the Evangelist
DESCRIPTION:Evangelist. Patron of Physicians\, painters\, artists. A doct
 or wrote more of the New Testament by volume than any other single autho
 r except Paul — and gave us the only accounts of the Annunciation\, the 
 Prodigal Son\, and the Good Samaritan.
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UID:isaac-jogues@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261019
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Isaac Jogues\, Jean de Brébeuf & Companions
DESCRIPTION:North American Martyrs. Patron of North America. Jogues escap
 ed to France after losing fingers to torture — then sailed straight back
 . He needed papal permission to say Mass with maimed hands\; the pope re
 plied: 'It would be shameful for a martyr of Christ not to drink the blo
 od of Christ.'
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UID:maria-bertilla-boscardin@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261020
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Religious. Patron of Nurses. Dismissed as slow and c
 lumsy\, she nursed children through diphtheria and soldiers under air ra
 ids with such courage that the wounded called her their angel.
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UID:ursula@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261021
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Ursula & Companions
DESCRIPTION:Virgins\, Martyrs. Patron of Students\, teachers. Her legend 
 so captured medieval Europe that St. Angela Merici named the great teach
 ing order of Ursuline sisters after her.
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UID:john-paul-ii@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261022
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Paul II
DESCRIPTION:Pope. Patron of World Youth Day\, families\, young Catholics.
  He personally visited and forgave the man who shot him\, in his prison 
 cell. His opening words as pope became his epitaph: 'Be not afraid.' "Be
  not afraid."
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UID:john-of-capistrano@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261023
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. John of Capistrano
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Friar. Patron of Chaplains\, jurists. At nearly seve
 nty he marched with a crusading army and\, crucifix in hand\, helped sav
 e Belgrade from the Ottoman siege of 1456.
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UID:anthony-mary-claret@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261024
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Anthony Mary Claret
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop\, Founder. Patron of Weavers\, the Catholic press.
  He preached thousands of missions\, survived an assassin's blade across
  his face in Cuba\, and printed and gave away millions of religious book
 lets.
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UID:crispin-and-crispinian@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261025
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Crispin & Crispinian
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of Shoemakers\, leatherworkers. Their feast i
 s the 'St. Crispin's Day' of Shakespeare's Henry V — the date of the Eng
 lish victory at Agincourt and the king's 'band of brothers' speech.
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UID:demetrius-of-thessalonica@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261026
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Demetrius of Thessalonica
DESCRIPTION:Martyr. Patron of Thessalonica\, soldiers. His great basilica
  still stands in Thessalonica\, and the Eastern Church honors him as the
  'Great Martyr\,' a heavenly defender of his city.
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UID:frumentius@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261027
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Frumentius
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Ethiopia. A captured boy who became a king'
 s secretary\, he brought the Gospel to Ethiopia — which still calls him 
 'Abba Salama\,' Father of Peace.
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UID:simon-jude@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261028
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Simon & Jude
DESCRIPTION:Apostles. Patron of Desperate causes\, hopeless cases (Jude).
  Jude became patron of hopeless causes possibly because his name resembl
 ed Judas — nobody prayed to him unless they were desperate. Now he's amo
 ng the most invoked saints on earth.
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UID:narcissus-of-jerusalem@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261029
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Narcissus of Jerusalem
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. By tradition he once blessed water that 
 was poured into the lamps when the oil ran out on Easter eve\, and it bu
 rned like oil — and he lived to around a hundred and sixteen.
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UID:alphonsus-rodriguez@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261030
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Alphonsus Rodríguez
DESCRIPTION:Religious\, Friar. Patron of —. He answered the door for half
  a century with the words 'I'm coming\, Lord!' — and the young Peter Cla
 ver\, whom he counseled there\, became an apostle to slaves.
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UID:wolfgang-of-regensburg@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261031
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Wolfgang of Regensburg
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of —. One of the great bishops of his age\, he
  taught a future emperor-saint and was so loved that pilgrims sought his
  lakeside hermitage for centuries after.
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UID:all-saints@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ All Saints
DESCRIPTION:Solemnity. Patron of —. Most saints are anonymous. Today is t
 he feast of grandmothers\, janitors\, and martyrs whose names no one rec
 orded — and the goal of every life.
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UID:all-souls@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261102
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ All Souls' Day
DESCRIPTION:Commemoration of the Faithful Departed. Patron of —. It grew 
 from a monk's decree at Cluny in 998 that all his monasteries pray for t
 he dead the day after All Saints — and the custom spread to the whole Ch
 urch. "Eternal rest grant unto them\, O Lord\, and let perpetual light s
 hine upon them."
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UID:martin-de-porres@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261103
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Martin de Porres
DESCRIPTION:Religious Brother. Patron of Social justice\, barbers\, mixed
 -race people\, public health. He ran a hospital\, an orphanage\, and an 
 animal shelter\, and his confreres swore he could bilocate. Lima's racia
 lly excluded brother became its patron of justice.
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UID:charles-borromeo@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261104
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Charles Borromeo
DESCRIPTION:Cardinal & Reformer. Patron of Bishops\, catechists\, seminar
 ians. When plague struck Milan in 1576\, the civil leaders fled. The car
 dinal stayed\, organized relief\, and went into the streets himself — in
  debt from feeding tens of thousands. "Be sure that you first preach by 
 the way you live."
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UID:zechariah-and-elizabeth@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261105
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Zechariah & Elizabeth
DESCRIPTION:—. Patron of Married couples\, the childless. Told he would h
 ave a son in old age\, Zechariah doubted and was struck mute — and sang 
 for joy only when\, at the baby's naming\, he wrote 'His name is John.'
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UID:leonard-of-noblac@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261106
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Leonard of Noblac
DESCRIPTION:Hermit\, Abbot. Patron of Prisoners\, captives\, women in lab
 or. By tradition the king granted him the power to release prisoners he 
 visited\, and freed captives across Europe hung their broken chains at h
 is shrine in thanks.
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UID:willibrord@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261107
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Willibrord
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Luxembourg\, the Netherlands. His feast is 
 still kept in Luxembourg with a famous 'dancing procession' that hops it
 s way to his tomb — a tradition centuries old.
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UID:john-duns-scotus@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261108
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ Bl. John Duns Scotus
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Friar. Patron of —. His careful reasoning won the lo
 ng debate over Mary's Immaculate Conception — and his name\, 'Dunse\,' w
 as unfairly twisted by opponents into the word 'dunce.'
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UID:dedication-of-the-lateran@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261109
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of —. Not St. Peter's but the Lateran is the po
 pe's true cathedral — the oldest public church in the West\, given to th
 e Church by the Emperor Constantine himself.
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UID:leo-the-great@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261110
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Leo the Great
DESCRIPTION:Pope & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Popes\, confessors. He
  talked Attila the Hun out of sacking Rome. No army\, no walls — words. 
 "Christian\, remember your dignity."
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UID:martin-of-tours@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Martin of Tours
DESCRIPTION:Bishop. Patron of Soldiers\, France\, tailors\, conscientious
  objectors. He's both the patron of soldiers and one of the first consci
 entious objectors: 'I am a soldier of Christ\; it is not lawful for me t
 o fight.' His feast on Nov 11 is now Armistice Day. "I am a soldier of C
 hrist. It is not lawful for me to fight."
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UID:josaphat@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261112
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Josaphat
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr. Patron of Church unity. He died for the caus
 e of Christian unity — the first saint of the Eastern Catholic churches 
 to be formally canonized by Rome.
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UID:frances-cabrini@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261113
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
DESCRIPTION:Religious Foundress. Patron of Immigrants\, hospital administ
 rators. Rejected by two religious orders for poor health and terrified o
 f water her whole life\, she crossed the ocean 30+ times and became the 
 first U.S. citizen canonized. "I will go anywhere and do anything in ord
 er to communicate the love of Jesus."
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UID:lawrence-o-toole@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261114
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Lawrence O'Toole
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop. Patron of Dublin. He negotiated between Irish kin
 gs and the invading Normans\, fed huge crowds of the starving from his o
 wn table\, and died on a peace mission far from home.
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UID:albert-the-great@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Albert the Great
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Scientists\, natural
  sciences\, philosophers. He insisted on observing nature directly rathe
 r than trusting old books — an experimental instinct centuries ahead of 
 schedule. The Church made him patron of scientists.
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UID:margaret-of-scotland@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261116
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Margaret of Scotland
DESCRIPTION:Queen. Patron of Scotland. She fed orphans and beggars with h
 er own hands before she ate\, rose at night to pray\, and raised a son\,
  St. David\, who became one of Scotland's best kings.
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UID:elizabeth-of-hungary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261117
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Elizabeth of Hungary
DESCRIPTION:Princess & Widow. Patron of Bakers\, charities\, widows\, the
  Third Order of St. Francis. Legend says bread she smuggled to the poor 
 turned to roses when her critics stopped her — but the documented truth 
 is wilder: she gave away nearly everything\, including her own bed. "How
  could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns?"
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UID:rose-philippine-duchesne@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261118
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Religious. Patron of —. Too old and frail to learn t
 he language\, she spent her days among the Potawatomi simply praying — a
 nd they named her 'Woman Who Prays Always.'
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UID:mechtilde-of-hackeborn@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261119
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
SUMMARY:⛪ St. Mechtilde of Hackeborn
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Mystic. Patron of —. Dante may have drawn the figure
  of 'Matelda' in his Paradiso from her\, and her recorded prayers spread
  the devotion to the Sacred Heart across Europe.
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UID:edmund-the-martyr@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261120
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Edmund the Martyr
DESCRIPTION:King\, Martyr. Patron of Kings\, pandemics. For centuries bef
 ore St. George\, he was a patron saint of England\, and the great abbey 
 town of Bury St Edmunds grew up around his shrine.
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UID:presentation-of-mary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261121
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:Marian Memorial. Patron of —. The feast comes from a second-c
 entury story of Mary's parents bringing her as a small girl to be raised
  in the Temple — her life consecrated before she could speak.
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UID:cecilia@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261122
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Cecilia
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Martyr. Patron of Music\, musicians\, singers. When 
 her tomb was opened in 1599\, her body was found incorrupt — the sculpto
 r Maderno carved her exactly as she lay\, and the statue still marks the
  spot.
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UID:columban@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261123
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Columban
DESCRIPTION:Abbot\, Missionary. Patron of —. His monks re-evangelized muc
 h of post-Roman Europe\; he rebuked kings and even popes\, and his found
 ations like Luxeuil and Bobbio became great centers of learning.
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UID:andrew-dung-lac-companions@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261124
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SUMMARY:⛪ Sts. Andrew Dung-Lac & Companions
DESCRIPTION:Martyrs. Patron of Vietnam. They number one hundred and seven
 teen canonized martyrs\, but stand for as many as a hundred and thirty t
 housand Vietnamese Christians who died for the faith.
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UID:catherine-of-alexandria@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261125
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Catherine of Alexandria
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Martyr. Patron of Philosophers\, students\, libraria
 ns\, lawyers. The spiked 'Catherine wheel' built to kill her broke at he
 r touch\; the firework spinning at carnivals still bears her name. Hers 
 was among the voices Joan of Arc heard.
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UID:john-berchmans@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261126
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John Berchmans
DESCRIPTION:Religious\, Student. Patron of Altar servers\, students. His 
 motto was to make much of little things\; the patron of altar servers\, 
 he is said to have died holding his rosary\, crucifix\, and rule book — 
 the things he most loved.
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UID:our-lady-of-the-miraculous-medal@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261127
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SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of —. Mary asked that a medal be made pr
 omising graces to all who wore it\; so many cures and conversions follow
 ed that people simply called it 'the Miraculous Medal.'
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UID:catherine-laboure@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261128
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Catherine Labouré
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Religious. Patron of —. She kept her famous visions 
 secret all her life\, known to no one as the seer\; she spent those deca
 des feeding the aged and tending the henhouse\, recognized only after he
 r death.
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UID:saturninus-of-toulouse@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261129
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Saturninus of Toulouse
DESCRIPTION:Bishop\, Martyr. Patron of Toulouse. The street where the bul
 l dragged him is still called the Rue du Taur — 'street of the bull' — a
 nd his great basilica of Saint-Sernin rose over his grave.
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UID:andrew@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261130
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Andrew
DESCRIPTION:Apostle. Patron of Scotland\, Russia\, Greece\, fishermen. Hi
 s X-shaped cross is on the flags of Scotland\, and within the Union Jack
  — an apostle's martyrdom flying over nations he never saw. "We have fou
 nd the Messiah."
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UID:charles-de-foucauld@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261201
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Charles de Foucauld
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Hermit. Patron of —. He founded no order in his life
 time and made not a single convert\, yet his hidden life of prayer in th
 e Sahara inspired whole families of communities after his death. "Father
 \, I abandon myself into your hands\; do with me what you will."
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UID:bibiana@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261202
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Bibiana
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Martyr. Patron of Against epilepsy and headaches. An
  ancient church on the site of her home still bears her name in Rome\, a
 nd she was long invoked by those suffering from seizures and headaches.
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UID:francis-xavier@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261203
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Francis Xavier
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Missionary. Patron of Missions\, missionaries\, Japa
 n\, India. Ignatius won over the ambitious young athlete by repeating on
 e question: 'What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose 
 his soul?' He died within sight of China\, still going. "Give me souls\;
  take away the rest."
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UID:barbara@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261204
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Barbara
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Martyr. Patron of Miners\, artillery\, against light
 ning. Because her father was killed by lightning at her death\, she beca
 me patron against sudden death by fire and storm — and so of miners\, gu
 nners\, and firefighters.
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UID:sabbas-the-sanctified@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261205
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Sabbas the Sanctified
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of —. The monastery he founded\, Mar Saba\, is 
 one of the oldest inhabited monasteries on earth — monks have prayed the
 re without a break for over 1\,500 years.
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UID:nicholas@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261206
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Nicholas
DESCRIPTION:Bishop of Myra. Patron of Children\, sailors\, pawnbrokers\, 
 brides. The historical Nicholas attended the Council of Nicaea\, endured
  prison under Diocletian\, and gave in secret. Seventeen centuries of gi
 ft-giving trace to one bishop's hidden charity.
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UID:ambrose@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261207
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Ambrose
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Beekeepers\, learnin
 g\, Milan. He was elected bishop while still an unbaptized catechumen — 
 the crowd started chanting his name and wouldn't stop. He went from bapt
 ism to bishop in eight days. "When in Rome\, do as the Romans do. (his a
 dvice to Monica on local customs)"
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UID:immaculate-conception@rememberingsaints
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261208
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SUMMARY:⛪ Immaculate Conception
DESCRIPTION:Solemnity. Patron of United States (patroness). It's the most
  misunderstood feast in the calendar: it celebrates Mary's conception\, 
 not Jesus's. Four years after its definition\, the Lady of Lourdes confi
 rmed it to Bernadette by name.
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UID:juan-diego@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261209
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Juan Diego
DESCRIPTION:Layman & Visionary. Patron of Indigenous peoples. His cactus-
 fiber tilma\, with its scientifically unexplained image\, still hangs in
  Mexico City — nearly 500 years past its expected lifespan\, seen by 20 
 million pilgrims a year.
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UID:our-lady-of-loreto@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261210
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SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Loreto
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of Aviators\, air travelers. Because pio
 us legend said angels carried the Holy House through the air to Italy\, 
 Our Lady of Loreto became the patron saint of aviators and air travelers
 .
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UID:damasus-i@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261211
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SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. Damasus I
DESCRIPTION:Pope. Patron of —. It was he who set St. Jerome to translatin
 g the Bible into Latin — the Vulgate that would be the Western Church's 
 Scripture for over a thousand years.
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UID:our-lady-of-guadalupe@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261212
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SUMMARY:⛪ Our Lady of Guadalupe
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of The Americas\, Mexico\, the unborn. H
 er image is a message in Aztec symbols: standing on the moon\, clothed w
 ith the sun\, wearing the sash of a pregnant woman — a sermon the Aztecs
  could read at a glance. "Am I not here\, I who am your mother?"
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UID:lucy@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261213
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Lucy
DESCRIPTION:Virgin & Martyr. Patron of Eyes\, the blind\, writers\, Swede
 n. Sixteen centuries later\, Scandinavia — about as far from Sicily as E
 urope gets — still crowns girls with candles every December 13 for a Sic
 ilian martyr.
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UID:john-of-the-cross@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261214
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John of the Cross
DESCRIPTION:Priest & Doctor of the Church. Patron of Mystics\, contemplat
 ives\, Spanish poets. 'The Dark Night of the Soul' — the phrase everyone
  uses — is the title of a poem he wrote after escaping a 6-by-10-foot pr
 ison cell by knotted blankets. "In the evening of life\, we will be judg
 ed on love alone."
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UID:maria-crocifissa-di-rosa@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261215
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Maria Crocifissa di Rosa
DESCRIPTION:Virgin\, Foundress. Patron of —. During war she led her siste
 rs into military hospitals under fire to nurse soldiers of both sides\, 
 and died worn out at forty-two.
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UID:adelaide@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261216
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Adelaide
DESCRIPTION:Empress. Patron of Brides\, stepparents\, the exiled. Impriso
 ned and abused by a man who wanted her crown\, she escaped through a tun
 nel\, married the emperor Otto the Great\, and became one of medieval Eu
 rope's most powerful women.
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UID:john-of-matha@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261217
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John of Matha
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Founder. Patron of Captives. His order existed for o
 ne purpose — to buy back prisoners and slaves — and over the centuries t
 he Trinitarians freed tens of thousands from captivity.
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UID:expectation-of-mary@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261218
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
DESCRIPTION:Marian Feast. Patron of Expectant mothers. Called in Spain 'O
 ur Lady of the O' for the longing 'O' antiphons sung this week\, it make
 s Mary's expectancy the heart of the last days before Christmas.
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UID:urban-v@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261219
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SUMMARY:⛪ Bl. Urban V
DESCRIPTION:Pope. Patron of —. He was the only Avignon pope to be beatifi
 ed — a monk who stayed a monk on the papal throne\, eating simply and po
 uring the Church's wealth into schools and the poor.
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UID:dominic-of-silos@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261220
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Dominic of Silos
DESCRIPTION:Abbot. Patron of Expectant mothers\, captives. Centuries late
 r a mother who prayed at his tomb named her son Dominic in thanks — that
  boy grew up to be St. Dominic\, founder of the Dominicans.
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UID:peter-canisius@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261221
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Peter Canisius
DESCRIPTION:Priest\, Doctor of the Church. Patron of —. His catechism was
  reprinted hundreds of times and taught the faith to German-speaking Cat
 holics for three centuries — to 'know one's Canisius' meant to know the 
 faith.
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UID:chaeremon-and-egyptian-martyrs@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261222
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Chaeremon & the Martyrs of Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Bishop & Martyrs. Patron of —. The old bishop and his compani
 ons vanished into the desert and were never seen again — counted among t
 he martyrs who died simply for refusing to renounce Christ.
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UID:john-of-kanty@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261223
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John of Kanty
DESCRIPTION:Priest. Patron of Poland\, professors. He gave away his food\
 , his money\, and even his shoes and cloak to beggars\, and centuries of
  Kraków students processed in his honor as a model scholar-saint.
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UID:christmas-eve@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261224
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SUMMARY:⛪ Christmas Eve
DESCRIPTION:Vigil of the Nativity. Patron of —. The old calendars kept th
 is day as the feast of Adam and Eve\, our first parents — for the child 
 born tonight comes to undo the fall that began with them.
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UID:nativity-of-the-lord@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261225
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Nativity of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:Solemnity (Christmas). Patron of —. The Church's joy at the W
 ord made flesh is so great that Christmas\, like Easter\, has its own oc
 tave — eight days kept as a single feast of light. "I bring you good new
 s of great joy: today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you
 \, who is Christ the Lord."
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UID:stephen@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261226
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Stephen
DESCRIPTION:Deacon & First Martyr. Patron of Deacons\, stonemasons\, head
 ache sufferers. The man minding the coats at his stoning was Saul of Tar
 sus — St. Paul. Stephen's dying prayer for his killers may be the most c
 onsequential prayer after the Our Father. "Lord\, do not hold this sin a
 gainst them."
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UID:john-the-apostle@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261227
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. John the Apostle
DESCRIPTION:Apostle & Evangelist. Patron of Theologians\, writers\, frien
 dship. The only apostle who didn't die a martyr — and the only one at th
 e foot of the cross. In old age his whole sermon became one line: 'Littl
 e children\, love one another.' "Little children\, love one another."
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UID:holy-innocents@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261228
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Holy Innocents
DESCRIPTION:Feast\, Martyrs. Patron of Children. They are honored as mart
 yrs though they never chose it — children who died in Christ's place\, t
 he first to give their lives for him though they never knew him.
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UID:thomas-becket@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261229
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SUMMARY:⛪ St. Thomas Becket
DESCRIPTION:Archbishop & Martyr. Patron of Clergy\, England. The king exp
 ected a puppet and got a martyr. 'Will no one rid me of this turbulent p
 riest?' Henry later walked barefoot to the tomb in penance. "I am ready 
 to die for my Lord\, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and 
 peace."
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UID:holy-family@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261230
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SUMMARY:⛪ The Holy Family
DESCRIPTION:Feast. Patron of Families. Most of Jesus' life — some thirty 
 years — was spent in the silence of family life at Nazareth\, which the 
 Church holds up as the school of holiness for every home.
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UID:sylvester-i@rememberingsaints
DTSTAMP:20260101T000000Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261231
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SUMMARY:⛪ Pope St. Sylvester I
DESCRIPTION:Pope. Patron of —. He guided the Church as it stepped out of 
 the catacombs into daylight — and in much of Europe New Year's Eve is st
 ill called simply 'Silvester' after him.
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