A Great Cloud of Witnesses: An unofficial calendar made available for use in the Episcopal Church |
January |
1 | The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ |
2 | Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, First Indian Anglican Bishop, Dornakal, 1945 |
3 | William Passavant, Prophetic Witness, 1894 |
4 | Elizabeth Seton, Founder of the American Sisters of Charity, 1821 |
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6 | The Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ |
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8 | Harriet Bedell, Deaconess and Missionary, 1969 |
9 | Julia Chester Emery, Missionary, 1922 |
10 | William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645 |
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12 | Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 |
13 | Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, 367 |
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16 | Richard Meux Benson, Religious, 1915, and Charles Gore, Bishop of Worcester, of Birmingham, and of Oxford, 1932 |
17 | Antony, Abbot in Egypt, 356 |
18 | The Confession of Saint Peter the Apostle |
19 | Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 |
20 | Fabian, Bishop and Martyr of Rome, 250 |
21 | Agnes, Martyr at Rome, 304 |
22 | Vincent, Deacon of Saragossa, and Martyr, 304 |
23 | Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, 1893 |
24 | Ordination of Florence Li Tim-Oi, First Woman Priest in the Anglican Communion, 1944 |
25 | The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle |
26 | Timothy, Titus, and Silas, Companions of Saint Paul |
27 | Lydia, Dorcas, and Phoebe, Witnesses to the Faith |
28 | Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Theologian, 1274 |
29 | Andrei Rublev, Monk and Iconographer, 1430 |
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31 | Juan Bosco (John Bosco), Priest, 1888 or Samuel Shoemaker, Priest and Evangelist, 1963 |
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February |
1 | Brigid (Bride), 523 |
2 | The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple |
3 | The Dorchester Chaplains: Lieutenant George Fox, Lieutenant Alexander D. Goode, Lieutenant Clark V. Poling and Lieutenant John P. Washington, 1943 |
4 | Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 |
5 | Roger Williams, 1683, and Anne Hutchinson, 1643, Prophetic Witnesses |
6 | The Martyrs of Japan, 1597 |
7 | Cornelius the Centurion |
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11 | Frances Jane (Fanny) Van Alstyne Crosby, Hymnwriter, 1915 |
12 | Charles Freer Andrews, Priest and "Friend of the Poor" in India, 1940 |
13 | Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818 |
14 | Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885 |
15 | Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, 1730 |
16 | Charles Todd Quintard, Bishop of Tennessee, 1898 |
17 | Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, and Martyr, 1977 |
18 | Martin Luther, Theologian, 1546 |
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20 | Frederick Douglass, Prophetic Witness, 1895 |
21 | John Henry Newman, Bishop and Theologian, 1890 |
22 | Eric Liddell, Missionary to China, 1945 |
23 | Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr of Smyrna, 156 |
24 | Saint Matthias the Apostle |
25 | John Roberts, Priest, 1949 |
26 | Emily Malbone Morgan, Prophetic Witness, 1937 |
27 | George Herbert, Priest, 1633 |
28 | Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, 1964, and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, 1904, Educators |
29 | John Cassian, Abbot at Marseilles, 433 |
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March |
1 | David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544 |
2 | Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, 672 |
3 | John and Charles Wesley, Priests, 1791, 1788 |
4 | Paul Cuffee, Witness to the Faith among the Shinnecock, 1812 |
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6 | William W. Mayo, 1911, and Charles Menninger, 1953, and Their Sons, Pioneers in Medicine |
7 | Perpetua and her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202 |
8 | Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Priest, 1929 |
9 | Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394 |
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12 | Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604 |
13 | James Theodore Holly, Bishop of Haiti, and of the Dominican Republic, 1911 |
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17 | Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461 |
18 | Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, 386 |
19 | Saint Joseph |
20 | Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1711 |
21 | Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr, 1556 |
22 | James De Koven, Priest, 1879 |
23 | Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, c. 332 |
24 | Óscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, 1980, and the Martyrs of El Salvador |
25 | The Annunciation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Blessed Virgin Mary |
26 | Richard Allen, First Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1831 |
27 | Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and of Western New York, 1929 |
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29 | John Keble, Priest, 1866 |
30 | Innocent of Alaska, Bishop, 1879 |
31 | John Donne, Priest, 1631 |
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April |
1 | Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, 1872 |
2 | James Lloyd Breck, Priest, 1876 |
3 | Richard, Bishop of Chichester, 1253 |
4 | Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader and Martyr, 1968 |
5 | Pandita Mary Ramabai, Prophetic Witness and Evangelist in India, 1922 |
6 | Daniel G. C. Wu, Priest and Missionary among Chinese Americans, 1956 |
7 | Tikhon, Patriarch of Russia, Confessor and Ecumenist, 1925 |
8 | William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest, 1877 and Anne Ayers, Religious, 1896 |
9 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian and Martyr, 1945 |
10 | William Law, Priest, 1761 or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Scientist and Military Chaplain, 1955 |
11 | George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, and of Lichfield, 1878 |
12 | Adoniram Judson, Missionary to Burma, 1850 |
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14 | Edward Thomas Demby, 1957, and Henry Beard Delany, 1928, Bishops |
15 | Damien, Priest and Leper, 1889, and Marianne, Religious, 1918, of Molokai |
16 | Mary (Molly) Brant (Konwatsijayenni), Witness to the Faith among the Mohawks, 1796 |
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19 | Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012 |
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21 | Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109 |
22 | John Muir, Naturalist and Writer, 1914, and Hudson Stuck, Priest and Environmentalist, 1920 |
23 | George, Soldier and Martyr, c. 304 or Toyohiko Kagawa, Prophetic Witness in Japan, 1960 |
24 | Genocide Remembrance |
25 | Saint Mark the Evangelist |
26 | Robert Hunt, Priest and First Chaplain at Jamestown, 1607 |
27 | Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 |
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29 | Catherine of Siena, 1380 |
30 | Sarah Josephine Buell Hale, Editor and Prophetic Witness, 1879 |
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May |
1 | Saint Philip and Saint James, Apostles |
2 | Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373 |
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4 | Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 |
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7 | Harriet Starr Cannon, Religious, 1896 |
8 | Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417 |
9 | Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389 |
10 | Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Prophetic Witness, 1760 |
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13 | Frances Perkins, Public Servant and Prophetic Witness, 1965 |
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16 | The Martyrs of the Sudan |
17 | William Hobart Hare, Bishop of Niobrara, and of South Dakota, 1909 |
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19 | Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 |
20 | Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804 |
21 | John Eliot, Missionary among the Algonquin, 1690 |
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23 | Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543, and Johannes Kepler, 1543, Astronomers |
24 | Jackson Kemper, First Missionary Bishop in the United States, 1870 |
25 | Bede, the Venerable, Priest, and Monk of Jarrow, 735 |
26 | Augustine, First Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 |
27 | Bertha and Ethelbert, Queen and King of Kent, 616 |
28 | John Calvin, Theologian, 1564 |
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30 | Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), Mystic and Soldier, 1431 |
31 | The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
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June |
1 | Justin, Martyr at Rome, c. 167 |
2 | Blandina and Her Companions, the Martyrs of Lyons, 177 |
3 | The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 |
4 | John XXIII (Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli), Bishop of Rome, 1963 |
5 | Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754 |
6 | Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 |
7 | The Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil, 1890 |
8 | Roland Allen, Mission Strategist, 1947 |
9 | Columba, Abbot of Iona, 597 |
10 | Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, Deacon, 373 |
11 | Saint Barnabas the Apostle |
12 | Enmegahbowh, Priest and Missionary, 1902 |
13 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Apologist and Writer, 1936 |
14 | Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379 |
15 | Evelyn Underhill, 1941 |
16 | George Berkeley, 1753, and Joseph Butler, 1752, Bishops and Theologians |
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18 | Bernard Mizeki, Catechist and Martyr in Mashonaland, 1896 |
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22 | Alban, First Martyr of Britain, c. 304 |
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24 | The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist |
25 | James Weldon Johnson, Poet, 1938 |
26 | Isabel Florence Hapgood, Ecumenist and Journalist, 1929 |
27 | Cornelius Hill, Priest and Chief among the Oneida, 1907 |
28 | Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, c. 202 |
29 | Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles |
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July |
1 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer and Prophetic Witness, 1896 |
2 | Walter Rauschenbusch, 1918, Washington Gladden, 1918, and Jacob Riis, 1914, Prophetic Witnesses |
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4 | Independence Day |
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6 | Jan Hus, Prophetic Witness and Martyr, 1415 |
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11 | Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino, c. 540 |
12 | Nathan Söderblom, Archbishop of Uppsala and Ecumenist, 1931 |
13 | Conrad Weiser, Witness to Peace and Reconciliation, 1760 |
14 | Samson Occom, Witness to the Faith in New England, 1792 |
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16 | The Righteous Gentiles |
17 | William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836 |
18 | Bartolome de las Casas, Friar and Missionary to the Indies, 1566 |
19 | Macrina, Monastic and Teacher, 379 or Adelaide Teague Case, Teacher, 1948 |
20 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1902; Amelia Bloomer, 1894; Sojourner Truth, 1883; and Harriet Ross Tubman, 1913, Liberators and Prophets |
21 | Albert John Luthuli, Prophetic Witness in South Africa, 1967 |
22 | Saint Mary Magdalene |
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24 | Thomas à Kempis, Priest, 1471 |
25 | Saint James the Apostle |
26 | Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
27 | William Reed Huntington, Priest, 1909 |
28 | Johann Sebastian Bach, 1750, George Frederick Handel, 1759, and Henry Purcell, 1695, Composers |
29 | Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany |
30 | William Wilberforce, 1833, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury, 1885, Prophetic Witnesses |
31 | Ignatius of Loyola, Priest and Monastic, 1556 |
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August |
1 | Joseph of Arimathea |
2 | Samuel Ferguson, Missionary Bishop for West Africa, 1916 |
3 | George Freeman Bragg, Jr., Priest, 1940 or William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Sociologist, 1963 |
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5 | Albrecht Dürer, 1528, Matthias Grünewald, 1529, and Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1553, Artists |
6 | The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ |
7 | John Mason Neale, Priest, 1866 or Catherine Winkworth, Poet, 1878 |
8 | Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221 |
9 | Herman of Alaska, Missionary to the Aleut, 1837 |
10 | Laurence, Deacon, and Martyr at Rome, 258 |
11 | Clare, Abbess at Assisi, 1253 |
12 | Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Social Reformer, 1910 |
13 | Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1667 |
14 | Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Seminarian and Martyr, 1965 |
15 | Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ |
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17 | Samuel Johnson, 1772, Timothy Cutler, 1765, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, 1790, Priests |
18 | William Porcher DuBose, Priest, 1918 |
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20 | Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153 |
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23 | Martin de Porres, 1639, Rosa de Lima, 1617, and Toribio de Mogrovejo, 1606, Witnesses to the Faith in South America |
24 | Saint Bartholomew the Apostle |
25 | Louis, King of France, 1270 |
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27 | Thomas Gallaudet, 1902, with Henry Winter Syle, 1890 |
28 | Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, and Theologian, 430 or Moses the Black, Desert Father and Martyr, c. 400 |
29 | John Bunyan, Writer, 1688 |
30 | Charles Chapman Grafton, Bishop of Fond du Lac, and Ecumenist, 1912 |
31 | Aidan, 651, and Cuthbert, 687, Bishops of Lindisfarne |
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September |
1 | David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931 |
2 | The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942 |
3 | Prudence Crandall, Teacher and Prophetic Witness, 1890 |
4 | Paul Jones, 1941 |
5 | Gregorio Aglipay, Priest and Founder of the Philippine Independent Church, 1940 |
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7 | Elie Naud, Huguenot Witness to the Faith, 1722 |
8 | Nikolai Grundtvig, Bishop and Hymnwriter, 1872 or Søren Kierkegaard, Teacher and Philosopher, 1855 |
9 | Constance, Nun, and Her Companions, 1878 |
10 | Alexander Crummell, 1898 |
11 | Harry Thacker Burleigh, Composer, 1949 |
12 | John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830 |
13 | John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407 |
14 | Holy Cross Day |
15 | Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258 or James Chisholm, Priest, 1855 |
16 | Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c. 430 |
17 | Hildegard, 1179 |
18 | Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882 |
19 | Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 |
20 | John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 |
21 | Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist |
22 | Philander Chase, Bishop of Ohio, and of Illinois, 1852 |
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25 | Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392 |
26 | Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1626 or Wilson Carlile, Priest, 1942 |
27 | Vincent de Paul, Religious, and Prophetic Witness, 1660 or Thomas Traherne, Priest, 1674 |
28 | Richard Rolle, 1349, Walter Hilton, 1396, and Margery Kempe, c. 1440, Mystics |
29 | Saint Michael and All Angels |
30 | Jerome, Priest, and Monk of Bethlehem, 420 |
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October |
1 | Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, c. 530 |
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3 | George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester, and Ecumenist, 1958 or John Raleigh Mott, Evangelist and Ecumenical Pioneer, 1955 |
4 | Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1126 |
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6 | William Tyndale, 1536, and Miles Coverdale, 1568, Translators of the Bible |
7 | Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Lutheran Pastor in North America, 1787 |
8 | William Dwight Porter Bliss, Priest, 1926, and Richard Theodore Ely, Economist, 1943 |
9 | Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Medical Missionary, 1940 |
10 | Vida Dutton Scudder, Educator and Witness for Peace, 1954 |
11 | Philip, Deacon and Evangelist |
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14 | Samuel Isaac Joseph Scherechewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906 |
15 | Teresa of Avila, Nun, 1582 |
16 | Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, Bishops and Martyrs, 1555 |
17 | Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and Martyr, c. 115 |
18 | Saint Luke the Evangelist |
19 | Henry Martyn, Priest, and Missionary to India and Persia, 1812 or William Carey, Missionary to India, 1834 |
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23 | Saint James of Jerusalem, Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr, c. 62 |
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26 | Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899 |
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28 | Saint Simon and Saint Jude, Apostles |
29 | James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885 |
30 | John Wyclif, Priest and Prophetic Witness, 1384 |
31 | Paul Shinji Sasaki, Bishop of Mid-Japan, and of Tokyo, 1946, and Philip Lindel Tsen, Bishop of Honan, China, 1954 |
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November |
1 | All Saints |
2 | Commemoration of All Faithful Departed |
3 | Richard Hooker, Priest, 1600 |
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6 | William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1944 |
7 | Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739 |
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10 | Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 |
11 | Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397 |
12 | Charles Simeon, Priest, 1836 |
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14 | Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop, 1796 |
15 | Francis Asbury, 1816, and George Whitefield, 1770, Evangelists |
16 | Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093 |
17 | Hugh, 1200, and Robert Grosseteste, 1253, Bishops of Lincoln |
18 | Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 |
19 | Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231 |
20 | Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870 |
21 | William Byrd, 1623, John Merbecke, 1585, and Thomas Tallis, 1585, Musicians |
22 | Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c. 280 or Clive Staples Lewis, Apologist and Spiritual Writer, 1963 |
23 | Clement, Bishop of Rome, c. 100 |
24 | Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross), Mystic, 1591 |
25 | James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935 |
26 | Isaac Watts, Hymnwriter, 1748 |
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28 | Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885 |
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30 | Saint Andrew the Apostle |
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December |
1 | Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637 or Charles de Foucauld, Hermit and Martyr in the Sahara, 1916 |
2 | Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan, 1910 |
3 | Francis Xavier, Missionary to the Far East, 1552 |
4 | John of Damascus, Priest, c. 760 |
5 | Clement of Alexandria, Priest, c. 210 |
6 | Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c. 342 |
7 | Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 397 |
8 | Richard Baxter, Pastor and Writer, 1691 |
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10 | Thomas Merton, Contemplative and Writer, 1968 or Karl Barth, Pastor and Theologian, 1968 |
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13 | Lucy (Lucia), Martyr at Syracuse, 304 |
14 | Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross), Mystic, 1591 |
15 | John Horden, Bishop and Missionary in Canada, 1893 or Robert McDonald, Priest, 1913 |
16 | Ralph Adams Cram, 1942, and Richard Upjohn, 1878, Architects, and John LaFarge, Artist, 1910 |
17 | William Lloyd Garrison, 1879, and Maria Stewart, 1879, Prophetic Witnesses |
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19 | Lillian Trasher, Missionary in Egypt, 1961 |
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21 | Saint Thomas the Apostle |
22 | Charlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon, Missionary in China, 1912 or Henry Budd, Priest, 1875 |
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25 | The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ |
26 | Saint Stephen, Deacon and Martyr |
27 | Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist |
28 | The Holy Innocents |
29 | Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1170 |
30 | Frances Joseph Gaudet, Educator and Prison Reformer, 1934 |
31 | Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Bishop in the Niger Territories, 1891 |