List of Saints' Feastdays
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January
- Circumcision of the Lord
- The Epiphany of the Lord.
February
- Saint Scholastica
- Saint Valentine
March
- Saint Benedict
- The Crucifixion.
- The Resurrection of Christ
April
- Saint Guthlac confessor.
- Saint Alfegius
- Saint George
- Saint Mark the Evangelist
- Saint Vitalis martyr.
May
- The Apostles Philip and James
- St Monica (Patron Saint of Alcoholics)
- Saint Augustine the bishop
June
- saint Peter the martyr
- Saint Barnabas the apostle
- Saints Vitus and Modestus
- Saint Alban
- Saint Aetheldritha virgin
- Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
- Saints John and Paul
- Martyrdom of the apostles Peter and Paul
July
- Translation of saint Benedict
- Saint Mary magdalene
- Saint Christina virgin
- Saint James the apostle
- Saint Samson the confessor
- Saint Beatrice
August
- Saint Stephen the martyr
- The Assumption of Saint Mary virgin
- St Bartholomew the apostle
- Saint Rufus martyr
- St Augustine the doctor
- The Beheading of Saint John the baptist
- Saint Felix
September
- Nativity of Saint Mary virgin
- Saint Matthew the apostle
- Saint Michael the archangel
- Saint Jerome presbiter
October
- St Francis of Assisi
- Saint Luke the evangelist
- Saint Frideswide virgin
- St Ursula
- Simon and Jude apostles
November
- Feast of All Saints
- Saint Leonard the confessor
- Edmund the Martyr
- St Cecilia (Patron saint of Music)
December
- Saint Nicholas bishop
- The Conception of Saint Mary
- The Nativity of Our Lord
Endnotes
- remember that some medeival calenders got dates of saint's feast days wrong, or debated the date between differnt church sections.
- local areas would celebrate only the saint's feast days relevant to them - they might celebrate the well known saints of their country, and also a few local saints, and saints relevant ot their landscape and specialities (eg farming saints, saints of sailors, vinters, etc) and also saints relevant to their personal circumstances (female saints for a convent, saints of chastity for a person who had taken a vow of chastity, etc). There was a big push in the 12th century to introduce saint thomas beckett to europe (from england)- gifts of clothing with embroideries of his martyrdom were sent to many european churches as a publicity campaign.
- Books of saints days existed in medieval times. One 12th century example online is the [Albans psalter], also with an [[1]] about the saints days within.