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Comprehensive Index to Texts, Part III
Lesser Feasts and Fasts
Month:
January
- 10 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645
- 12 Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167
- 13 Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, 367
- 17 Antony, Abbot in Egypt
- 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
- 26 Timothy and Titus, Companions of Saint Paul
- 27 John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407
- 28 Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Friar, 1274
February
- 1 Brigid (Bride)
- 3 Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865
- 4 Cornelius the Centurion
- 5 The Martyrs of Japan, 1597
- 13 Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818
- 14 Cyril, Monk and Methodius,Bishop, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869, 885
- 15 Thomas Bray, Priest and Missionary, 1730
- 18 Martin Luther, Reformer, 1546
- 23 Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr of Smyrna, 156
- 27 George Herbert, Priest, 1633
March
- 1 David, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544
- 2 Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, 672
- 3 John and Charles Wesley, Priests, 1791, 1788
- 7 Perpetua and her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202
- 9 Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c.394
- 12 Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604
- 17 Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461
- 18 Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, 386
- 20 Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 687
- 21 Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1711
- 22 James De Koven, Priest, 1879
- 23 Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, c.332
- 27 Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Phillipines, and of Western New York, 1929
- 29 John Keble, Priest, 1866
- 31 John Donne, Priest, 1631
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, 1968
- 8 William Augustus Muhlenberg, Priest, 1877
- 9 William Law, Priest, 1761
- 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pastor and Theologian, 1945
- 11 George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, and of Lichfield, 1878
- 19 Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr, 1012
- 21 Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1109
- 29 Catherine of Siena, 1380
May
- 2 Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, 373
- 4 Monnica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387
- 8 Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417
- 9 Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389
- 19 Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988
- 20 Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 80
- 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
- The Book of Common Prayer, 1549, is appropriately observed on a weekday following the Day of Pentecost
June
- 1 Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.167
- 2 The Martyrs of Lyons, 177
- 3 The Martyrs of Uganda, 1886
- 5 Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754
- 9 Columba, Abbot of Iona, 597
- 10 Ephrem of Edessa, Deacon, 373
- 14 Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379
- 15 Evelyn Underhill, 1941
- 16 Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, 1752
- 18 Bernard Mizeki, Catechist and Martyr in Rhodesia, 1896
- 22 Alban, First Martyr of Britain, c.304
- 28 Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, c.202
July
- 11 Benedict of Nursia, Abbott of Monte Cassino, c.540
- 17 William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1836
- 19 Macrina
- 20 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman,
Liberators and Prophets
- 24 Thomas a Kempis, Priest, 1471
- 26 Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 27 William Reed Huntington, Priest, 1909
- 29 Mary and Martha of Bethany
- 30 William Wilberforce, 1833
- 31 Ignatius of Loyola, Priest, Monastic, and Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556
August
- 1 Joseph of Arimathaea
- 7 John Mason Neale, Priest, 1866
- 8 Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221
- 10 Laurence, Deacon, and Martyr at Rome, 258
- 11 Clare, Abbess at Assisi, 1253
- 13 Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 1667
- 14 Jonathan Myrick Daniels
- 18 William Porcher DuBose, Priest, 1918
- 20 Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1153
- 25 Louis, King of France, 1270
- 27 Thomas Gallaudet, 1902 and Henry Winter Syle, 1890
- 28 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 430
- 31 Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, 651
September
- 1 David Pendleton Oakerhater, Deacon and Missionary, 1931
- 2 The Martyrs of New Guinea, 1942
- 4 Paul Jones
- 9 Constance, Nun, and her Companions, 1878
- 10 Alexander Crummell
- 12 John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York, 1830
- 13 Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr of Carthage, 258
- 16 Ninian, Bishop in Galloway, c.430
- 17 Hildegard
- 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
- 25 Sergius, Abbot of Holy Trinity, Moscow, 1392
- 26 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1626
- 30 Jerome, Priest, and Monk of Bethlehem, 420
October
- 1 Remegius, Bishop of Rheims, c.530
- 4 Francis of Assisi, Friar, 1226
- 6 William Tyndale, Priest, 1536
- 9 Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, 1253
- 14 Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906
- 15 Teresa of Avila, Nun, 1582
- 16 Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer, 1555, 1556
- 17 Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, and Martyr, c.115
- 19 Henry Martyn, Priest, and Missionary to India and Persia, 1812
- 26 Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, 899
- 29 James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1885
November
- 2 Commemoration of All Faithful Departed
- 3 Richard Hooker, Priest, 1600
- 7 Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739
- 10 Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461
- 11 Martin, Bishop of Tours, 397
- 12 Charles Simeon, Priest, 1836
- 14 Consecration of Samuel Seabury, First American Bishop, 1784
- 16 Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 1093
- 17 Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200
- 18 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680
- 19 Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231
- 20 Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870
- 22 C.S. Lewis, Apologist and Author 1963
- 23 Clement, Bishop of Rome, c.100
- 25 James Otis Sargent Huntington, Priest and Monk, 1935
- 28 Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, 1864, 1885
December
- 1 Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, 1637
- 2 Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan, 1910
- 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
- 29 Thomas Becket
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