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JANUARY

1st.....The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ
6th.....The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
9th.....Julia Chester Emery, Missionary, 1922
10th....William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645
12th....Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167
13th....Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, 367
17th....Antony, Abbot in Egypt, 356
18th....The Confession of Saint Peter the Apostle
19th....Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095
20th....Fabian, Bishop and Martyr of Rome, 250
21st....Agnes, Martyr at Rome, 304
22nd....Vincent, Deacon of Saragossa, and Martyr, 304
23rd....Phillip Brooks, Bishop of Massachusettes, 1893
25th....The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
26th....Timothy and Titus, Companions of Saint Paul
27th....John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407
28th....Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar, 1274

FEBRUARY



1st.....Saint Brigid of Ireland
2nd.....The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple
3rd.....Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweeden, 865
4th.....Cornelius the Centurion
5th.....The Martyrs of Japan, 1597
13th....Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818
14th....Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885
15th....Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, 1730
18th....Martin Luther, Educator and Translator,1546
23rd....Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr of Smyrna, 156
24th....Saint Matthias the Apostle
27th....George Herbert, Priest, 1633

MARCH



1st.....David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544
2nd.....Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, 672
3rd.....John and Charles Wesley, Priests, 1791, 1788
7th.....Perpetua and her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202
9th.....Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394
12th....Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604
17th....Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461
18th....Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, 386
19th....Saint Joseph
20th....Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 687
21st....Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1711
22nd....James De Koven, Priest, 1879
23rd....Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, c. 332
25th....The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary
27th....Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and of Western New York, 1929
29th....John Keble, Priest, 1866
31st....John Donne, Priest, 1631

APRIL

1st.....Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, 1872
2nd.....James Lloyd Breck, Priest, 1876
3rd.....Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 1253
4th.....Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader, 1968
8th.....William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest, 1877
9th.....Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1945
10th.....William Law, Priest, 1761
11th....Georege Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, and of Litchfield, 1878
19th....Alhpege, Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr, 1012
21st....Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109
25th....Saint Mark the Evangelist
29th....Catherine of Siena, 1380

MAY



1st.....Saint Philip and Saint James, Apostles
2nd.....Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373
4th.....Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387
8th.....Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417
9th.....Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389
19th....Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988
20th....Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804
24th....Jackson Kemper, First Missionary Bishop in the United States, 1870
25th....Bede, the Venerable, Priest, and Monk of Jarrow, 735
26th....Augustine, First Archibsop of Canterbury, 605
31st....The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

JUNE



1st.....Justin, Martyr at Rome, 167
2nd.....The Martyrs of Lyons, 177
3rd.....The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886
5th.....Boniface, Archibishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754
9th.....Columba, Abbot of Iona, 597
10th....Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, Deacon, 373
11th....Saint Barnabas the Apostle
12th....Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary, 1902
14th....Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379
15th....Evelyn Underhill, Theologian and Mystic, 1941
16th....Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, 1752
18th....Bernard Mizeki, Catechist and Martyr in Africa, 1896
22nd....Alban, First Martyr of Britain, c. 304
24th....The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
28th....Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, c. 202
29th....Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles

JULY



4th.....Independence Day
11th....Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, c. 540
17th....William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836
19th....Macrina, Monastic and Teacher, 379
20th....Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman
22nd....Saint Mary Magdalene
24th....Thomas a Kempis, Priest, 1471
25th....Saint James the Apostle
26th....The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
27th....William Reed Huntington, Priest, 1909
29th....Mary and Martha of Bethany
30th....William Wilberforce, 1833
31st....Ignatius of Loyola, 1556

AUGUST



1st.....Joseph of Arimathaea
6th.....The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
7th.....John Mason Neale, Priest, 1866
8th.....Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221
10th....Laurence, Deacon and Martyr at Rome, 258
11th....Clare, Abbess at Assisi, 1253
12th....Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Social Reformer, 1910
13th....Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1667
14th....Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Seminarian, 1965
15th....Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ
18th....William Porcher DuBoise, Priest, 1918
20th....Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153
24th....Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
25th....Louis, King of France, 1270
27th....Thomas Gallaudet, Priest, 1902, and Henry Winter Syle, Priest, 1890
28th....Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 430
31st....Aiden, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 651

SEPTEMBER



1st.....David Pendleton Okerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931
2nd.....The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942
4th.....Paul Jones, Bishop, 1941
9th.....Constance, Nun, and her Comapnions, 1878
10th....Alexander Crummel, Priest, Missionary, Educator, 1898
12th....John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830
13th....Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258
14th....Holy Cross Day
16th....Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c. 430
17th....Hildegard of Bingen, Visionary, 1170
18th....Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882
19th....Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690
20th....John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871
21st....Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
25th....Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392
26th....Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1626
29th....Saint Michael and All Angels
30th....Jerome, Priest, and Monk of Bethlehem, 420

OCTOBER



1st.....Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, c. 530
4th.....Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226
6th.....William Tyndale, Priest, 1536
9th.....Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253
11th....Philip, Deacon and Evangelist
14th....Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906
15th....Teresa of Avila, Nun, 1582
16th....Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, Bishops, 1555
16th....Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1556
17th....Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and Martyr, c. 115
18th....Saint Luke the Evagelist
19th....Henry Martyn, Priest, and Missionary to India and Persia, 1812
23rd....Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr, c.62
26th....Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899
28th....Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles
29th....James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885

NOVEMBER



1st.....All Saints
2nd.....Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
3rd.....Richard Hooker, Priest, 1600
7th.....Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739
10th....Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461
11th....Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397
12th....Charles Simeon, Priest, 1838
14th....Consecration of Samuel Seabury, Firs American Bishop, 1784
16th....Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093
17th....Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200
18th....Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680
19th....Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231
20th....Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870
23rd....Clement, Bishop of Rome, c. 100
25th....James Otis Sargent Hungtington, Priest and Monk, 1935
28th....Kamahameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864
30th....Saint Andrew the Apostlee

DECEMBER



1st.....Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637
2nd.....Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan, 1910
4th.....John of Damascus, Priest, c. 760
5th.....Clement of Alexandria, Priest, c. 210
6th.....Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c. 342
7th.....Ambrose, Mishop of Milan, 397
21st....Saint Thomas the Apostle
25th....The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
26th....Saint Stephen, Deacon and Martyr
27th....Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist
28th....The Holy Innocents
29th....Thomas Becket, Archbishop and Martyr, 1170

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