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All Saints
All Saints is the great solemnity on which the Church honors the whole company of the blessed in heaven — not only the martyrs and canonized saints whose names fill the calendar, but the countless multitude of the holy ones, known to God alone, who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and now behold his face.
All Souls
All Souls, the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is the day on which the whole Church prays for the souls of the dead who have died in God's grace but are not yet fully purified, that they may be cleansed of every remaining stain and admitted to the vision of God.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the official and comprehensive statement of Catholic belief and practice, promulgated by Pope St.
Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle
The feast of the Chair of St.
Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major
The Dedication of the Basilica of St.
Divine Mercy
The devotion to the Divine Mercy proclaims the boundless mercy of God poured out upon sinners through Jesus Christ, and calls the faithful to trust in that mercy and to show mercy to others.
Dogmas of the Catholic Church
The dogmas of the Catholic Church are the truths of divine revelation that the Church, exercising her teaching authority, solemnly and definitively proposes as revealed by God and therefore to be believed with the assent of faith by all the faithful.
Our Lady
Our Lady is the affectionate and reverent title by which Christians honor the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and the mother of all the faithful.
Our Lady of Akita
Our Lady of Akita refers to a series of events reported by a deaf religious sister, Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa, at a convent near Akita in northern Japan in 1973.
Our Lady of America
Our Lady of America refers to reported apparitions and communications of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a religious sister, Mildred Marie Neuzil, of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood, in the United States beginning in the 1950s.
Our Lady of Banneux
Our Lady of Banneux refers to a series of eight apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a poor twelve-year-old girl, Mariette Beco, in the village of Banneux in Belgium, between January and March 1933, in the same months as the apparitions at nearby Beauraing.
Our Lady of Beauraing
Our Lady of Beauraing refers to a series of some thirty-three apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to five children of two families in the town of Beauraing in Belgium, between November 1932 and January 1933.
Our Lady of Fátima
Our Lady of Fátima refers to a series of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three shepherd children, Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, at the Cova da Iria near the town of Fátima in Portugal, over six months in 1917.
Our Lady of Good Help
Our Lady of Good Help refers to the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a young Belgian immigrant woman, Adele Brise, near the settlement of Champion in the woods of northeastern Wisconsin in October 1859.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe refers to the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a humble native convert, St.
Our Lady of Kibeho
Our Lady of Kibeho refers to a series of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to several young students at a school in the village of Kibeho in Rwanda, beginning in November 1981.
Our Lady of La Salette
Our Lady of La Salette refers to the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to two young peasant cowherds, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, on a mountainside near the village of La Salette in the French Alps on 19 September 1846.
Our Lady of Laus
Our Lady of Laus refers to a long series of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a poor young shepherdess, Benoîte Rencurel, in the region of Laus in the French Alps, beginning in 1664 and, by tradition, continuing over some fifty-four years of her life.
Our Lady of Loreto
Our Lady of Loreto honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title associated with the Holy House venerated at Loreto in the Marche region of Italy.
Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes refers to a series of eighteen apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a poor and sickly fourteen-year-old girl, St.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title under which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored as the patroness of the Carmelite order.
Our Lady of Pontmain
Our Lady of Pontmain refers to the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a group of children in the village of Pontmain in northwestern France on the evening of 17 January 1871, during the dark days of the Franco-Prussian War, when the Prussian armies were advancing and the men of the village were away at the front.
Our Lady of Sorrows
Our Lady of Sorrows is the memorial that contemplates the Blessed Virgin Mary standing in compassion beside the suffering of her Son, sharing in his Passion with a heart pierced by the sword that the aged Simeon had foretold.
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal refers to a series of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to a young Daughter of Charity, St.
Our Lady of the Rosary
Our Lady of the Rosary is the memorial that honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of the Rosary, the beloved prayer in which the faithful, passing the beads through their fingers, contemplate with Mary the joyful, sorrowful, glorious, and luminous mysteries of the life of Christ.
Our Lady of the Three Fountains
Our Lady of the Three Fountains, also called Our Lady of Revelation, refers to a reported apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Tre Fontane on the outskirts of Rome, near the traditional site of the martyrdom of St.
Our Lady of Walsingham
Our Lady of Walsingham honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title given to her at the ancient shrine of Walsingham in Norfolk, England, long revered as "England's Nazareth.
Our Lady, Help of Christians
Our Lady, Help of Christians honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under an ancient title that hails her as the powerful protectress and helper of the Christian people in every need and danger.
Our Lady, Rosa Mystica
Our Lady, Rosa Mystica, or the Mystical Rose, is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary that is ancient in itself, being one of the invocations by which she has long been honored, evoking her beauty, purity, and hidden glory.
Our Lord Jesus Christ
Our Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, who for us and for our salvation came down from heaven and was made man, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
Our Lord, Jesus King of All Nations
Our Lord, Jesus King of All Nations, refers to a devotion honoring the sovereign kingship of Jesus Christ over all peoples, nations, and creation, associated with a body of private revelations reported by an anonymous American religious sister in the later twentieth century.
Pope Benedict XIV
Pope Benedict XIV was born Prospero Lambertini on 31 March 1675 at Bologna in Italy.
Pope Benedict XV
Pope Benedict XV was born Giacomo della Chiesa on 21 November 1854 at Genoa in Italy, of a noble family, and trained as a diplomat in the papal service before being made Archbishop of Bologna and then, only months before his election, a cardinal.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Ratzinger on 16 April 1927 at Marktl in Bavaria, Germany.
Pope Bl. John Paul I
Pope John Paul I was born Albino Luciani on 17 October 1912 at Forno di Canale (now Canale d'Agordo) in the mountains of northern Italy, into a poor working family.
Pope Bl. Pius IX
Pope Blessed Pius IX was born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti on 13 May 1792 at Senigallia in the Papal States.
Pope Boniface VIII
Pope Boniface VIII was born Benedetto Caetani about 1230 at Anagni in Italy, a skilled canon lawyer and diplomat, and was elected pope in 1294 following the abdication of the saintly hermit Celestine V.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants.
Pope Gregory XVI
Pope Gregory XVI was born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari on 18 September 1765 at Belluno in the Venetian territory of Italy.
Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III was born Lotario dei Conti di Segni about 1160 near Rome, of a noble family, and was a brilliant scholar of theology and law.
Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII was born Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci on 2 March 1810 at Carpineto Romano in the Papal States.
Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV was born Robert Francis Prevost on 14 September 1955 in Chicago, in the United States.
Pope Pius VI
Pope Pius VI was born Giovanni Angelo Braschi on 25 December 1717 at Cesena in Italy and was elected pope in 1775.
Pope Pius VII
Pope Pius VII was born Barnaba Chiaramonti on 14 August 1742 at Cesena in Italy and became a Benedictine monk before his ordination as bishop and cardinal.
Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XI was born Achille Ratti on 31 May 1857 at Desio near Milan in Italy.
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII was born Eugenio Pacelli on 2 March 1876 in Rome.
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Sacred Heart of Jesus
The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus honors the physical heart of Christ as the sign and symbol of His boundless, redeeming love for mankind, and through it the whole of His love, human and divine.
Saint Michael the Archangel
Saint Michael the Archangel is honored as the chief of the angels and the great defender of God's people against the powers of evil.
Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order
The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order were seven prosperous merchants and noblemen of thirteenth-century Florence who, moved by grace and devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, forsook the world together to lead a life of prayer and penance.
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, is celebrated on the octave day of Christmas, eight days after the birth of the Lord, and honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under her most exalted title.
St. Abraham Kidunaia
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St. Achilles Kiwanuka
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St. Adelaide of Italy
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Alcuin of York was born around 735 in Northumbria, England, and died on 19 May 804 at Tours in Francia (modern France).
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St. Benedict the Moor
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St. Benedict XI
Blessed Benedict XI was born Niccolò Boccasini in 1240 at Treviso in northern Italy and died on 7 July 1304 at Perugia.
St. Benignus of Dijon
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St. John Neumann
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St. Katharine Drexel
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St. Mugagga Lubowa
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Origen was born around 185 at Alexandria, Egypt, into a Christian family, and died around 253 at Tyre.
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St. Patrick
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St. Paul
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St. Paul of the Cross
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St. Peter Canisius
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St. Peter Claver
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St. Peter Damian
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St. Peter Faber
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St. Peter of Tarentaise
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St. Peter the Aleut
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St. Petronilla
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St. Philaret
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St. Philip
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St. Philomena
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St. Pius X
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St. Prosper of Aquitaine
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St. Quadratus of Athens
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St. Radegund
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St. Raphael of Brooklyn
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St. Raymond Nonnatus
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St. Raymond of Peñafort
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St. Remigius
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St. René Goupil
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St. Richard of Chichester
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St. Rita of Cascia
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St. Robert Bellarmine
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St. Roch
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St. Teresa of the Andes
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St. Tertullian
Tertullian was born around 155 at Carthage in Roman North Africa (in modern Tunisia), and died sometime after 220.
St. Theobald of Provins
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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St. Veronica
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Sts. Marcellinus and Peter
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Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael
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Sts. Paul Miki and Companions
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Sts. Perpetua and Felicity
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Sts. Peter and Paul the Apostles
The Solemnity of Sts.
Sts. Philip and James the Apostles
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The Angel of Peace
The Angel of Peace refers to a heavenly messenger who, according to the account of the Fátima visionary Lúcia dos Santos, appeared three times to the three shepherd children, Lúcia, Francisco, and Jacinta, in 1916, the year before the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to prepare their souls for what was to come.
The Annunciation of the Lord
The Annunciation of the Lord is the solemnity that celebrates the message of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary at Nazareth, when he announced that she had been chosen to become the Mother of God's own Son.
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the solemnity celebrating the truth that Mary, at the end of her earthly life, was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven.
The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
The Conversion of St.
The Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul
This memorial commemorates the dedication of the two great papal basilicas raised over the tombs of the chief apostles: St.
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica commemorates the consecration of the Basilica of St.
The Epiphany of the Lord
The Epiphany of the Lord is one of the most ancient and greatest solemnities of the Church, celebrating the manifestation of Christ to the nations of the world.
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross is the feast on which the whole Church lifts up and glories in the Cross of Christ, no longer an instrument of shame but the tree of life and the throne from which the Lord reigned in the act of redeeming the world.
The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church are the Christians of Rome who were put to death in the earliest and most savage of the imperial persecutions, that of the Emperor Nero in the year 64.
The Holy Guardian Angels
The Holy Guardian Angels are honored in this memorial that celebrates God's loving providence in appointing to each person an angel to guard and guide them on the way to salvation.
The Holy Innocents
The Holy Innocents were the little children of Bethlehem and its neighborhood, two years old and under, whom King Herod, enraged that the Magi had not returned to reveal the whereabouts of the newborn King of the Jews, ordered to be put to death in the hope of destroying the infant Christ among them.
The Holy Shroud of Turin
The Holy Shroud of Turin is the ancient linen cloth, venerated by many of the faithful as the burial shroud in which the body of the Lord Jesus was wrapped after his death on the Cross.
The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the solemnity celebrating the truth that Mary, from the very first instant of her conception, was preserved free from all stain of original sin by a singular grace of God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race.
The Most Holy Name of Jesus
The Most Holy Name of Jesus is the memorial that honors the sacred name given to the Son of God at his circumcision, the name revealed by the angel to Mary and Joseph before his birth — Jesus, which means "God saves" — for he would save his people from their sins.
The Most Holy Name of Mary
The Most Holy Name of Mary is the memorial that honors the holy name of the Mother of God and, through her name, all the graces and privileges bestowed on her and all that she means to the Church.
The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
The Nativity of St.
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the feast celebrating the birth of Mary, the daughter of Joachim and Anne who was chosen from all eternity to become the Mother of God.
The Nativity of the Lord
The Nativity of the Lord, the solemnity of Christmas, celebrates the birth in time of the eternal Son of God, the Word made flesh, born of the Virgin Mary in a stable at Bethlehem and laid in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.
The Passion of St. John the Baptist
The Passion of St.
The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the memorial that honors, according to ancient tradition, the offering of the child Mary to God in the Temple of Jerusalem by her parents, Sts.
The Presentation of the Lord
The Presentation of the Lord, kept on 2 February forty days after Christmas, celebrates the day when Mary and Joseph brought the child Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem, in obedience to the Law of Moses, to present him to the Lord and to offer the sacrifice of the poor, a pair of turtledoves.
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the memorial that honors Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth, exalted above the angels and saints and crowned in glory at the side of her Son, the King of kings.
The Transfiguration of the Lord
The Transfiguration of the Lord is a feast of Christ commemorating the moment, recounted in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, when Jesus led Peter, James, and John up a high mountain — held by tradition to be Mount Tabor — and was transfigured before them: his face shone like the sun and his garments became dazzling white.
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary celebrates the journey of Mary, newly become the Mother of God, into the hill country of Judea to visit her kinswoman Elizabeth, who in her old age had conceived a son, John the Baptist.
Vision of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich was born on 8 September 1774 into a poor peasant family at Flamschen near Coesfeld in Westphalia, Germany.