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January

• 1 Holy Name of Jesus
  Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
  
  The Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus has been celebrated in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, at least at local levels, since the end of the fifteenth century....
   (Lesser Festival) W
• 2 Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe
  Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe
  
  Johann Konrad Wilhelm L?he was a pastor of the Lutheranism Church, Neo-Lutheran writer, and is often regarded as being a founder of the deaconess movement in Lutheransim and a founding sponsor of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod ....
  , pastor, renewer of the church, 1872 (Commemoration) W
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• 6 Epiphany of our Lord
  Epiphany (Christian)
  
  File:WiseMenAdorationMurillo.pngAfterfeast: The Feast of Theophany is followed by an eight-day Afterfeast on which the normal fasting laws are suspended....
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• 10 Basil the Great
  Basil of Caesarea
  
  Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor . He was an influential 4th century Christian theologian and monastic....
  , Bishop of Caesarea, 379; Gregory of Nazianzus
  Gregory of Nazianzus
  
  Gregory of Nazianzus was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the Church Fathers....
  , Bishop of Constantinople, c. 389; Gregory
  Gregory of Nyssa
  
  Gregory of Nyssa was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Roman Catholic branches of Christianity....
  , Bishop of Nyssa, c. 385 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 15 Martin Luther King, Jr., renewer of society
  Renewers of society
  
  Renewers of society is a title given by the Lutheran Book of Worship to selected individuals commemorated in its Calendar of Saints whom it sees as having contributed dramatically to the development and vitality of society....
  , martyr, 1968 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
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• 17 Antony of Egypt
  Anthony the Great
  
  Anthony the Great , also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Abba Antonius , and Father of All Monks, was an Christianity saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers....
  , renewer of the church, c. 356 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Pachomius
  Pachomius
  
  Saint Pachomius , also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom in Arabic ?????? ????????, is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism....
  , renewer of the church, 346 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 18 Confession of Saint Peter
  Saint Peter
  
  Saint Peter was a leader of the early Christianity church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles....
   (Lesser Festival) W
• Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
  Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
  
  The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an international Christian Christian ecumenism observance kept annually between 18 January and 25 January....
   Begins
• 19 Henry
  Bishop Henry
  
  Saint Henry was a medieval Sweden clergyman. According to legends, he conquered Finland together with King Eric IX of Sweden of Sweden and died as a martyr, becoming a central figure in the local Roman Catholic Church....
  , Bishop of Uppsala, missionary to Finland, martyr, 1156 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• 20 Sarah
  Sarah
  
  Sarah is the wife of Abraham as described in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. Her name was originally Sarai. According to Book of Genesis 17:15 she changed her name to Sarah as part of a covenant with Yahweh after Hagar bore Abraham his first born son Ishmael....
  , matriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 21 Agnes
  Saint Agnes
  
  Agnes of Rome is a Consecrated virgin-Christian martyrs, venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, the Anglican Communion, and in Eastern Orthodoxy....
  , martyr (Commemoration) R - ELCA
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• 24 Saint Timothy
  Timothy
  
  Timothy was a first-century Christianity bishop who died about AD 80. Evidence from the New Testament also has him functioning as coadjutor of Saint Paul....
  , pastor (Lesser Festival) W - LCMS
  
  *25 Conversion of Saint Paul
  Paul of Tarsus
  
  Saint Paul, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul or Paul of Tarsus , was a Hellenistic Judaism, who called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles", and was, together with Saint Peter and James the Just, the most notable of early Christian missionaries....
   (Lesser Festival) W
• Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Ends
• 26 Timothy, Titus
  Apostle Titus
  
  Saint Titus was a companion of Saint Paul, mentioned in several of the Pauline epistles. Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts of the Apostles....
  , and Silas
  Silas
  
  Saint Silas or Saint Silvanus was a leading member of the early Christian community, who later accompanied Paul of Tarsus in some of his missionary journeys....
  , missionaries (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Saint Titus, pastor (Lesser Festival) W - LCMS
• 27 Lydia
  Lydia of Thyatira
  
  Lydia of Thyatira was the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe.The Acts of the Apostles describes her as follows:The name, "Lydia", meaning "the Lydian woman", by which she was known indicates that she was from Lydia in Asia Minor....
  , Dorcas
  Dorcas
  
  Dorcas was a disciple of Jaffa found in the Book of Acts of the Apostles of the Bible. She was a dressmaker, who made clothes for the poor in her village....
  , and Phoebe
  Phoebe (Christian woman)
  
  Phoebe was a Christian woman mentioned by the Paul of Tarsus in Epistle to the Romans 16:1.Some have interpreted the Greek "diakonos" to relate Phoebe as a deaconess, however the more traditional and literal interpretation of the word is as a servant....
  , witnesses to the faith (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom
  
  'Saint John Chrysostom' , archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in Sermon and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St....
  , Bishop of Constantinople, 407 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 28 Thomas Aquinas
  Thomas Aquinas
  
  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dominican Order was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis....
  , teacher, 1274 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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February

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• 2 Presentation of our Lord
  Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
  
  The Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus, and falls on or around 2 February. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Presentation is the fourth Rosary#The Mysteries of the Rosary....
   (Lesser Festival) W
• 3 Ansgar
  Ansgar
  
  Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, was an Archbishopric of Bremen. The see of Hamburg was designated a "Mission to bring Christianity to the Northern Europe", and Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North"....
  , Archbishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 5 The Martyrs of Japan
  Martyrs of Japan
  
  The refers to a group of Christians who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597 at Nagasaki, Nagasaki.On August 15, 1549, Francis Xavier , Fr....
  , 1597 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• Jacob
  Jacob
  
  According to the Hebrew Bible, Jacob , also known as Israel , was the third Biblical patriarchs and the ancestor of the twelve Israelites....
  , patriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 10 Silas
  Silas
  
  Saint Silas or Saint Silvanus was a leading member of the early Christian community, who later accompanied Paul of Tarsus in some of his missionary journeys....
  , apostle(Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 13 Aquila, Priscilla
  Priscilla (Christian)
  
  Priscilla and Aquila were a First Century Jewish Christian couple described in the New Testament. Of the seven times they are mentioned, five times Priscilla's name is mentioned first....
  , and Apollos
  Apollos
  
  Apollos was an early Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament. His special gifts in presenting Christian doctrine made him an important person in the congregation at Corinth, Greece after Paul of Tarsus's first visit there ....
    (Commemoration) W – LCMS

• • Valentine
    Saint Valentine
    
    Saint Valentine is the name of several martyred saints of ancient Rome. The name "Valentine", derived from valens , was popular in Late Antiquity....
    , martyr, 270 (Commemoration) R – LCMS
• 15 Philemon
  Philemon (New Testament character)
  
  Philemon was the recipient of a private letter from Paul of Tarsus. This Epistle to Philemon, is found in the New Testament.Traditionally, Philemon is believed to have been a resident of Colossae in Phrygia....
   and Onesimus
  Onesimus
  
  Saint Onesimus was a Roman slavery to Philemon of Colossae, a man of Christian faith. Eventually, Onesimus transgressed against Philemon and fled to the site of Paul the Apostle's imprisonment to escape punishment for a theft he had committed , there, he heard the Gospel from St....
   (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 16 Philipp Melanchthon
  Philipp Melanchthon
  
  Philipp Melanchthon was a German professor and theologian, a significant character in the Protestant Reformation, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and a friend and associate of Martin Luther....
  , confessor, 1560 (Commemoration) R – LCMS
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• 18 Martin Luther
  Martin Luther
  
  Martin Luther was a Germans monk, theology, university professor, priest, father of Protestantism, and Protestant Reformers whose ideas started the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western culture....
  , doctor and confessor, renewer of the church, 1546 (Commemoration) W
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• 23 Polycarp
  Polycarp
  
  Polycarp was a second century bishop of Smyrna. He died a martyr when he was stabbed after an attempt to burn him at the stake failed. Polycarp is recognized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican, and Lutheran Churches....
  , Bishop of Smyrna, martyr 156 (Commemoration) R
• 24 Saint Matthias
  Saint Matthias
  
  Saint Matthias . In the New Testament Acts of the Apostles, the author of the Gospel of Luke records that Saint Matthias was the Twelve Apostles chosen by the remaining eleven apostles to replace Judas Iscariot, following Judas's betrayal of Jesus and his suicide ....
  , Apostle (Lesser Festival) R – LCMS
• 25 Elizabeth Fedde
  Elizabeth Fedde
  
  Elizabeth Fedde was born on December 25, 1850 near Flekkefjord, Norway. She was trained as a deaconess at the Lovisenberg Deaconess House under the supervision of Mother Katinka Guldberg who had herself been trained at the Fliedner Motherhouse in Kaiserswerth, Germany....
  , deaconess, 1921 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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March

• 2 John
  John Wesley
  
  John Wesley was an Anglican cleric and Christian Christian theologian who founded the Arminianism Methodism. The Wesley Methodist Movement began when Wesley took over open-air preaching started by George Whitefield at Hanham, Kingswood, and Bristol....
  , 1791; Charles Wesley
  Charles Wesley
  
  Charles Wesley was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. Despite their closeness, Charles and his brother did not always agree on questions relating to their beliefs....
  , 1788; priests, renewers of the church (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 7 Perpetua and Felicity and companions, martyrs at Carthage, 202 (Commemoration) R
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• 10 Harriet Tubman
  Harriet Tubman
  
  Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from Slavery in the United States, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad....
  , 1913; Sojourner Truth
  Sojourner Truth
  
  Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American slave, Abolitionism and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, New York....
  , 1883; renewers of society (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 12 Gregory the Great
  Pope Gregory I
  
  Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
  , Bishop of Rome, 604 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 17 Patrick
  Saint Patrick
  
  Saint Patrick , said to have been born Maewyn Succat , was a Roman Britain-born Christianity missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba....
  , bishop, missionary to Ireland, 461 (Commemoration) W
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• 19 Joseph
  Saint Joseph
  
  Joseph "of the House of David" is known from the New Testament as the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus and although according to Christian tradition he was not the biological father of Jesus, he acted as his foster-father and as head of the Holy Family....
  , guardian of our Lord (Lesser Festival) W
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• 21 Thomas Cranmer
  Thomas Cranmer
  
  Thomas Cranmer was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII of England and Edward VI of England....
  , Archbishop of Canterbury, martyr, 1556 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• 22 Jonathan Edwards, teacher, missionary to American Indians, 1758 (Commemoration) W - ELCA
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• 24 Oscar Arnulfo Romero
  Óscar Romero
  
  ?scar Arnulfo Romero y Gald?mez , commonly known as Archbishop Romero, was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He became the fourth Archdiocese of San Salvador, succeeding Luis Ch?vez y Gonz?lez....
  , Bishop of El Salvador, martyr, 1980 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• 25 Annunciation of Our Lord
  Annunciation
  
  In Christianity, the Annunciation is the revelation to Mary, the mother of Jesus, by the angel Gabriel that she would Conception a child to be born the Son of God....
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• 29 Hans Nielsen Hauge
  Hans Nielsen Hauge
  
  Hans Nielsen Hauge was a revivalist Norway lay preacher who spoke up against the Church establishment in Norway. He and his followers were persecuted in their time, though their teachings were in keeping with Lutheranism doctrine....
  , renewer of the church, 1824 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 31 John Donne
  John Donne
  
  John Donne was an England Literature in English#Jacobean literature poet, preacher and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the period....
  , priest, poet, 1631 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Joseph
  Joseph (Hebrew Bible)
  
  Joseph or Yosef , is a major figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible . He was Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first. He is also mentioned favourably in the Qur'an....
  , patriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS

April

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• 4 Benedict the African
  Benedict the Moor
  
  Saint Benedict was an Italian saint.He was born to Christopher and Diana Manasseri, Africans who were taken to San Fratello , a small town near Messina, Sicily, as slaves and later were converted to Christianity....
  , confessor, 1589 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 6 Albrecht Dürer
  Albrecht Dürer
  
  'Albrecht D?rer' was a Germans Painting, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, commons:Image:Duerer - Ritter, Tod und Teufel .jpg , St....
  , 1528; Lucas Cranach
  Lucas Cranach the Elder
  
  Lucas Cranach the Elder was a Germany Painting and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was born Lucas Sunder at Kronach in upper Franconia, and learned the art of drawing from his father....
  , 1553; artists (Commemoration) W
• Matthias Grünewald
  Matthias Grünewald
  
  Matthias Gr?newald or "Mathis" , "Gothart" or "Neithardt" , , was an important German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century....
  , artist, 1529 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Michelangelo
  Michelangelo
  
  Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
  , artist, (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 9 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Germany Lutheran pastor, Theology, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church....
  , theologian, martyr, 1945 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 10 Mikael Agricola
  Mikael Agricola
  
  Mikael Agricola was a Finland clergyman who became de facto founder of written Finnish language and one of the prominent proponents of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden-Finland....
  , Bishop of Turku, 1557 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 19 Olavus Petri
  Olaus Petri
  
  Olof Persson , better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri, was a clergyman, writer, and a major contibutor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden....
  , priest, 1552; Laurentius Petri
  Laurentius Petri
  
  Laurentius Petri Nericius was a Sweden clergyman and the first Lutheran Church Archbishop of Uppsala. He and his brother Olaus Petri are, together with the King Gustav Vasa, regarded as the main Protestant Reformation of Sweden....
  , Archbishop of Uppsala, 1573; renewers of the church (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 20 Johannes Bugenhagen
  Johannes Bugenhagen
  
  This article is about the German religious leader. For the video game character, see List of Final Fantasy VII characters#Bugenhagen.Johannes Bugenhagen , also called Doktor Pomeranus by Martin Luther, introduced the Protestant Reformation in Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century....
  , pastor, 1558 (Commemoration) – LCMS
• 21 Anselm
  Anselm of Canterbury
  
  Saint Anselm of Canterbury was an Italian medieval philosopher, theology, and church official who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109....
  , Archbishop of Canterbury, theologian, 1109 (Commemoration) W
• 22 Día de la Creación (Lesser Festival) W – ELCA
• 23 Toyohiko Kagawa
  Toyohiko Kagawa
  
  Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese pacifism, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society....
  , renewer of society, 1960 (Commemoration) W - ELCA
• 24 Johann Walter
  Johann Walter
  
  Johann Walter was a Lutheran composer and poet during the Protestant Reformation period....
  , musician, 1570 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 25 Saint Mark
  Mark the Evangelist
  
  Saint Mark the Evangelist , also known as John Mark, is traditionally believed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark and a companion of Saint Peter....
  , Evangelist (Lesser Festival) R
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• 29 Catherine of Siena
  Catherine of Siena
  
  Saint Catherine of Siena, Ordo Praedicatorum was a Tertiaries of the Dominican Order, and a Scholasticism philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon Papacy, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states....
  , theologian, 1380 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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May

• 1 Saint Philip
  Philip the Apostle
  
  Saint Philip was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who Proselytism in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia....
   and Saint James
  James the Less
  
  James the Less is a figure of early Christianity.In the New Testament, James appears only in connection with his mother Mary of Clopas in , , ....
  , Apostles (Lesser Festival) R
• 2 Athanasius
  Athanasius of Alexandria
  
  Athanasius of Alexandria , also known as St Athanasius the Great, Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria, and St Athanasius the Apostolic, was a theologian, Bishop of Alexandria, Church Father, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century....
  , Bishop of Alexandria, 373 (Commemoration) W
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• 4 Monica
  Monica of Hippo
  
  File:Tabor CZ Nativity of Virgin Mary church front St Monica.jpgMonica is a Christian saint and the mother of Augustine of Hippo, who wrote extensively of her virtues and his life with her in his Confessions ....
  , mother of Augustine, 387 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Friedrich Wyneken
  F. C. D. Wyneken
  
  Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken was a missionary, pastor and the second president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.One hundred years after fellow Hannoverian Henry Muhlenberg brought together the pastors and congregations of colonial America, Wyneken gathered scattered German Protestants into confessional Lutheran congregations a...
  , pastor, missionary, 1864 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 5 Frederick the Wise
  Frederick III, Elector of Saxony
  
  Frederick III, Elector of Saxony , also known as Frederick the Wise, was Prince-elector of Saxony from 1486 to his death. Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria....
  , Christian ruler, 1525 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 7 Carl F. W. Walther
  C. F. W. Walther
  
  Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was the first President of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and its most influential Christian theology. He is commemorated by that church on its Calendar of Saints on May 7....
  , pastor, theologian, 1887 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 8 Victor the Moor
  Victor Maurus
  
  Victor the Moor was a Christian martyr and is venerated as a saint. Victor, born into a Christian family, was a soldier in the Roman Empire Praetorian Guard....
  , martyr, 303 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• Julian of Norwich
  Julian of Norwich
  
  Julian of Norwich was considered one of the greatest England mysticisms. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is uncertain, the name "Julian" coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she was an anchorite, meaning that she was a type of hermit, who lived in a cell attached to the church and spent t...
  , renewer of the Church, c. 1416 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 9 Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
  Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf
  
  Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Imperial Count of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf, , German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church, was born at Dresden....
  , renewer of the church, hymnwriter, 1760 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Job
  Job (Biblical figure)
  
  Job , is a gentile man in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible, as well as a Prophets of Islam in Islam. In brief, the book begins with an introduction to Job's character — he is described as a blessed man who lives righteously....
  , patriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS

• 11 Cyrill, 869 and Methodius, 885, missionaries to the Slavs (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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  Saint Matthias
  
  Saint Matthias . In the New Testament Acts of the Apostles, the author of the Gospel of Luke records that Saint Matthias was the Twelve Apostles chosen by the remaining eleven apostles to replace Judas Iscariot, following Judas's betrayal of Jesus and his suicide ....
  , apostle (Lesser Festival) R – ELCA
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• 18 Erik
  Eric IX of Sweden
  
  Eric IX of Sweden was a Sweden Monarchy of Sweden c.1150 – 1160. No historical records of Eric have survived, and all information about him is based on later legends that were aimed at having him established as a saint....
  , King of Sweden, martyr, 1160 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
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• 21 Helena
  Helena of Constantinople
  
  Saint Helena also known as Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople was the consort of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I....
  , mother of Constantine, c. 330 (Commemoration) W
• Emperor Constantine
  Constantine I
  
  Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus , commonly known in English_language as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or Saint Constantine , was Roman Emperor from 306, and the undisputed holder of that office from 324 until his death in 337....
  , Emperor of Rome, 337 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 24 Nicolaus Copernicus
  Nicolaus Copernicus
  
  Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentrism cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
  , 1543; Leonhard Euler
  Leonhard Euler
  
  Leonhard Paul Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany.Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus and graph theory....
  , 1783; scientists (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Esther
  Esther
  
  Esther , born Hadassah, is a queen of the Persian Empire in the Hebrew Bible, the queen of Ahasuerus , and heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther which is named after her....
  , matriarch, (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 25 Bede
  Bede
  
  Bede , , was a monasticism at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria....
  , theologian, 735 (Commemoration) R – LCMS
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• 27 John Calvin
  John Calvin
  
  John Calvin was an influential French people theology and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism....
  , renewer of the church, 1564 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 29 Juraj Tranovský
  Jirí Tranovský
  
  Jir? Tranovsk? , was a Czech people hymnwriter, sometimes called the father of Slovak hymnody and the "Martin Luther of the Slavs." His name is sometimes spelled Juraj or is anglicized to George....
  , hymnwriter, 1637 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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June

• 1 Justin
  Justin Martyr
  
  Saint Justin Martyr was an early Christian apologetics and saint. His works represent the earliest surviving Christian "apologies" of notable size....
  , martyr at Rome, c. 165 (Commemoration) R
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• 3 John XXIII
  Pope John XXIII
  
  Blessed Pope John XXIII , born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli , known as Blessed John XXIII since his beatification, was elected as the 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and monarch of Vatican City on 28 October 1958....
  , Bishop of Rome, 1963 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Martyrs of Uganda
  Martyrs of Uganda
  
  The Uganda Martyrs were Ugandan Christians who were murdered for their faith....
  , 1886 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
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  Saint Boniface
  
  Saint Boniface , the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid or Wynfrith at Crediton in the kingdom of Wessex , was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century....
  , Archbishop of Mainz, missionary to Germany, martyr, 754 (Commemoration) R
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• 7 Seattle
  Chief Seattle
  
  Chief Seattle or Sealth , also spelled Seathle, Seathl, or See-ahth, was a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native Americans in the United States tribes in what is now the United States state of Washington....
  , chief of the Duwamish Confederacy, 1866 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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  Columba
  
  Early life in IrelandColumba was born to Fedlimid and Eithne of the Cenel Conaill in Gartan, near Lough Gartan, County Donegal, in Ireland. On his father's side he was great-great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an High King of Ireland of the 5th century....
  , 597; Aidan
  Aidan of Lindisfarne
  
  Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria , was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England....
  , 651; Bede
  Bede
  
  Bede , , was a monasticism at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria....
  , 735; teachers, renewers of the church (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 10
• 11 Saint Barnabas
  Barnabas
  
  Saint Barnabas , born Joseph, was an early Christianity convert, one of the earliest disciples in Jerusalem. Like almost all Christians at the time, Barnabas was Jewish, specifically a Levite....
  , Apostle (Lesser Festival) R
• 12 First Ecumenical Council
  First Council of Nicaea
  
  The First Council of Nicea was convened in Nicaea in Bithynia by the Roman Emperors Constantine I in 325 CE. The Council was historically significant as the first effort to attain consensus decision-making in the church through an legislature representing all of Christendom....
  , 325 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 13
• 14 Basil the Great
  Basil of Caesarea
  
  Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor . He was an influential 4th century Christian theologian and monastic....
  , Bishop of Caesarea, 379; Gregory of Nazianzus
  Gregory of Nazianzus
  
  Gregory of Nazianzus was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. He is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the Church Fathers....
  , Bishop of Constantinople, c. 389; Gregory
  Gregory of Nyssa
  
  Gregory of Nyssa was a Christian bishop and saint. He was a younger brother of Basil the Great and a good friend of Gregory Nazianzus. His significance has long been recognized in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Roman Catholic branches of Christianity....
  , Bishop of Nyssa, c. 385 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Macrina
  Saint Macrina the Younger
  
  Saint Macrina the Younger was born at Caesarea Mazaca, Cappadocia. Her parents were Basil the Elder and Emmelia of Caesarea, and her grandmother was Saint Macrina the Elder....
  , theologian, c. 379 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Elisha
  Elisha
  
  Elisha is a Biblical prophet. In Greek and Latin, he is known as Saint Eliseus; however, the standard English form of the name has been "Elisha," at least since the introduction of the King James Version of the Bible....
  , prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
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• 21 Onesimos Nesib
  Onesimos Nesib
  
  Onesimos Nesib , was a native Oromo who converted to Lutheranism and translated the Christian Bible into the Oromo language. His parents named him Hika as a baby, meaning "Translator"; he took the name "Onesimus", after the Biblical character, upon converting to Christianity....
  , translator, evangelist, 1931 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 23
• 24 The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
  Nativity of St. John the Baptist
  
  The Nativity of St. John the Baptist is a Christianity feast day celebrating the birth of Jesus? cousin, John the Baptist.Significance...
   (Lesser Festival) W
• 25 Presentation of the Augsburg Confession
  Augsburg Confession
  
  The Augsburg Confession, also known as the "Augustana" from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church....
  , 1530 (Commemoration) W
• Philipp Melanchthon
  Philipp Melanchthon
  
  Philipp Melanchthon was a German professor and theologian, a significant character in the Protestant Reformation, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and a friend and associate of Martin Luther....
  , renewer of the church, 1560 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 26 Jeremiah
  Jeremiah
  
  Jeremiah was one of the 'greater prophet' of the Hebrew Bible. He was the son of Hilkiah, a priest of Anathoth.His writings are put together in the Book of Jeremiah and, according to tradition, the Book of Lamentations....
  , prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
• 27 Cyril
  Cyril of Alexandria
  
  Saint Cyril of Alexandria was the Pope of Alexandria when Alexandria was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th, and 5th centuries....
  , Bishop of Alexandria, 444 ( Commemoration) W
• 28 Irenaeus
  Irenaeus
  
  Saint Irenaeus , was a Catholic Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire . He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology....
  , Bishop of Lyons, c. 202 (Commemoration) W
• 29 Saint Peter
  Saint Peter
  
  Saint Peter was a leader of the early Christianity church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles....
   and Saint Paul
  Paul of Tarsus
  
  Saint Paul, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul or Paul of Tarsus , was a Hellenistic Judaism, who called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles", and was, together with Saint Peter and James the Just, the most notable of early Christian missionaries....
  , Apostles (Lesser Festival) R
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July

• 1 Catherine Winkworth
  Catherine Winkworth
  
  Catherine Winkworth was an English language translator. She is best known for bringing the German language chorale tradition to many English speakers with her translations of many hymns....
  , 1878; John Mason Neale
  John Mason Neale
  
  John Mason Neale , was an England priest, scholar and hymn-writer....
  , 1866; hymn translators (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 2
• 3 Saint Thomas
  Thomas the Apostle
  
  Saint Thomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas, or Didymus, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is perhaps best known for disbelieving Jesus' Resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus....
  , apostle (Lesser Festival) R – ELCA
• 4
• 5
• 6 Jan Hus
  Jan Hus
  
  Jan Hus was a Czech people religious thinker, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague....
  , martyr, 1415 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• Isaiah
  Isaiah
  
  Isaiah is the main figure in the Biblical Book of Isaiah, and is traditionally considered to be its author. He was an 8th-century Before Christ Judean prophet who declared that all the world belonged to God and that God will destroy it....
  , prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
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• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11 Benedict of Nursia
  Benedict of Nursia
  
  Saint Benedict of Nursia was a saint from Italy, the founder of Western Christian monasticism communities, and a rule-giver for cenobite monks....
  , Abbot of Monte Cassino, c. 540 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 12 Nathan Söderblom
  Nathan Söderblom
  
  Lars Olof Jonathan S?derblom was a Sweden clergyman, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize....
  , Archbishop of Uppsala, 1931 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 14
• 15
• 16 Ruth
  Book of Ruth
  
  The Book of Ruth is one of the books of the Ketuvim of the Tanakh and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. It is a rather short book, in both Judaism and Christianity scripture, consisting of only four chapters....
  , matriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 17 Bartolomé de Las Casas
  Bartolomé de Las Casas
  
  File:Bartolomedelascasas.jpgBartolom? de las Casas, Dominican Order , was a 16th-century Spanish Empire Dominican Order priest, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas....
  , missionary to the Indies, 1566 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 18
• 19
• 20 Elijah
  Elijah (prophet)
  
  Elijah or Elias meaning "Yahweh is God" was a prophet in kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BCE. He appears in the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, Mishnah, Christian Bible, and the Qur'an....
  , prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
• 21 Ezekiel
  Book of Ezekiel
  
  The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the prophet Ezekiel....
  , prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
• 22 Saint Mary Magdalene
  Mary Magdalene
  
  Saint Mary Magdalene or Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted Disciple of Jesus....
  , Apostle (Lesser Festival) W
• 23 Birgitta of Sweden
  Bridget of Sweden
  
  Birgitta Birgersdotter , later known as Saint Birgitta, also known as Santa Brigida or St. Bridgid of Sweden and Birgitta of Vadstena , was a Mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines, after over 20 years of married life before her husband died....
  , renewer of the church, 1373 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 24
• 25 Saint James the Elder, Apostle (Lesser Festival) R
• 26
• 27
• 28 Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
  , 1750; Heinrich Schütz
  Heinrich Schütz
  
  Heinrich Sch?tz was a German composer and organ , generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi....
  , 1672; George Frederick Handel, 1759; musicians (Commemoration) W
• 29 Mary
  Mary, sister of Lazarus
  
  In the Gospel of John, Mary of Bethany , the sister of Lazarus appears in connection with the visits of Jesus to Bethany and the death and rising from the dead of her brother Lazarus ....
  , Martha
  Martha
  
  Saint Martha was the sister of Lazarus and Mary, sister of Lazarus, and in the Gospel of John was witness to Jesus' resurrection of her brother....
  , and Lazarus
  Lazarus
  
  Lazarus is the name of two separate men mentioned in the New Testament. The more famous one is Lazarus of Bethany, the subject of the miracle recounted only in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus raises him from the dead....
   of Bethany (Commemoration) W
• Olaf
  Olaf II of Norway
  
  Olaf Haraldsson , was king of Norway from 1015–1028, . His mother was ?sta Gudbrandsdatter, and his father was Harald Grenske, great-grandchild of Harald I of Norway....
  , King of Norway, martyr, 1030 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• 30 Robert Barnes
  Robert Barnes
  
  Robert Barnes was an England reformer and martyr....
  , confessor and martyr (Commemoration) R – LCMS
• 31 Joseph of Arimathea
  Joseph of Arimathea
  
  Joseph of Arimathea was, according to the Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared sepulchre for the burial of Jesus after Jesus' Crucifixion of Jesus....
   (Commemoration) W – LCMS

August

• 1
• 2
• 3 Joanna
  Saint Joanna
  
  Joanna was one of the women associated with the ministry of Jesus, often considered to be one of the Disciple . In the Bible, she is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke as accompanying Jesus and the twelve: "Mary Magdalene, ......
  , Mary, and Salome
  Salome (disciple)
  
  Salome , the younger sister of Mary , was a follower of Jesus, who appears briefly in the canonical gospels, and who appears in more detail in apocryphal writings....
  , myrrh-bearing women (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 4
• 5
• 6 Transfiguration of Our Lord
  Transfiguration of Jesus
  
  The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported by the Synoptic Gospels in which Jesus is transfigured upon a mountain . Jesus becomes radiant, speaks with Moses and Elijah, and is called "Son" by God....
   (Festival) W
• 7
• 8 Dominic
  Saint Dominic
  
  Saint Dominic , also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzm?n and Domingo de Guzm?n Garc?s was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominican Order or Order of Preachers , a Catholic religious order....
  , priest, founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), 1221 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 9
• 10 Lawrence, deacon, martyr 258 (Commemoration) R
• 11 Clare
  Clare of Assisi
  
  Saint Clare of Assisi, born Chiara Offreduccio is an Italian people saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. She founded the Order of Poor Ladies, a monasticism religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition....
  , Abbess of San Damiano, renewer of the Church, 1253 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 12
• 13 Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale
  
  Florence Nightingale, Order of Merit , Royal Red Cross , who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician....
  , 1910; Clara Maass
  Clara Maass
  
  Clara Louise Maass was an United States nurse who died as a result of volunteering for medical experiments to study yellow fever. ...
  , 1901; renewers of society (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 14 Maximilian Kolbe
  Maximilian Kolbe
  
  Maximilian Kolbe , also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe and "Apostle of Consecration to Mary," born as Rajmund Kolbe, was a Poland Conventual Franciscans friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland....
  , 1941; Kaj Munk
  Kaj Munk
  
  Kaj Harald Leininger Munk was a Denmark playwright and Lutheranism pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during World War II....
  , 1944; martyrs (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• 15 Mary
  Mary (mother of Jesus)
  
  Mary , usually referred to by Christians as Saint Mary, the Virgin Mary, Holy Mary or the Madonna, was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee, identified in the New Testament as the mother of Jesus of Nazareth....
  , Mother of Our Lord (Lesser Festival) W
• 16 Isaac
  Isaac
  
  According to the Hebrew Bible, Isaac The New Testament contains few references to Isaac. The Early Christianity views Abraham's willingness to follow God's command to Binding of Isaac as an example of faith and obedience....
  , patriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 17 Johann Gerhard
  Johann Gerhard
  
  Johann Gerhard , was a Lutheran church leader and theologian.He was born in the German city of Quedlinburg. At the age of fourteen, during a dangerous illness, he came under the personal influence of Johann Arndt, author of Das wahre Christenthum, and resolved to study for the church....
  , theologian, 1637 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 20 Bernard
  Bernard of Clairvaux
  
  Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercians was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order....
  , Abbot of Clairvaux, hymnwriter, theologian, 1153 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Samuel, prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
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• 24 Saint Bartholomew, Apostle (Lesser Festival) R
• 25
• 26
• 27 Monica, mother of Augustine 387 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 28 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 430 (Commemoration) W
• Moses the Black
  Moses the Black
  
  Saint Moses the Black , known as the Ethiopian or the strong, was a slave of a government official in Egypt who dismissed him for theft and suspected murder....
  , monk, martyr, c. 400 (Commemoration) R - ELCA
• 29 The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist (Lesser Festival) R – LCMS
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• 31

September

• 2 Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
  Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
  
  Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig , most often referred to as simply N. F. S. Grundtvig, was a Denmark teacher, writer, poet, philosopher, historian, pastor, and politician....
  , bishop, renewer of the church, 1872 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Hannah
  Hannah (Bible)
  
  Hannah was a wife of Elkanah mentioned in the Books of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel . The Hebrew word "Hannah" has many meanings and interpretations such as beauty or passion....
  , matriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 3 Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, 604 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 4 Moses
  Moses
  
  Moses is a Hebrew Bible Hebrews religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, to whom the Mosaic authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. Also called Moshe Rabbeinu in Hebrew , he is the most important prophet in Judaism, and also an important prophet of Christianity, Islam, the Bah?'? Faith, Rastafari movement, Chrislam and many ot...
  , prophet (Commemoration)) R – LCMS
• 5 Zechariah, prophet
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9 Peter Claver
  Peter Claver
  
  Saint Peter Claver was a Jesuit who, due to his remarkable life and work, became the patron saint of slavery, of Colombia and of African Americans....
  , priest, missionary to Colombia, 1654 (Commemoration) – ELCA
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• 12
• 13 John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom
  
  'Saint John Chrysostom' , archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in Sermon and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St....
  , Bishop of Constantinople, 407 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 14 Feast of the Holy Cross
  Feast of the Cross
  
  In the Christian liturgical calendar, there are several different feasts known as Feasts of the Cross, all of which commemorate the True Cross used in the crucifixion of Jesus....
   (Lesser Festival) R
• 15
• 16 Cyprian
  Cyprian
  
  Saint Cyprian was bishop of Carthage and an important early Christianity writer. He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa during the Classical Period, perhaps at Carthage, where he received an excellent classical education....
  , Bishop of Carthage, martyr, c. 258 (Commemoration) R
• 17 Hildegard
  Hildegard
  
  The female name Hildegard etymology from the Old High German words hild and gard and means "protecting battle-maid". There were several persons in history with the name Hildegard:...
  , Abbess of Bingen, 1179 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 18 Dag Hammarskjöld
  Dag Hammarskjöld
  
  Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskj?ld was a Swedish diplomat, Christian mystic, and the second United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations....
  , renewer of society, 1961 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 19
• 20 Nelson Wesley Trout
  Nelson Wesley Trout
  
  Nelson Wesley Trout was the first U.S. Lutheran African American bishop in the ELCA.Trout was born in Columbus, Ohio, USA.Trout was elected bishop of the South Pacific District of the American Lutheran Church in 1983, a position he served through 1987....
  , bishop, 1996 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 21 Saint Matthew
  Matthew the Evangelist
  
  Matthew the Evangelist , most often called Saint Matthew, is a Christian figure, and one of Jesus's Twelve Apostles. He is credited by tradition with writing the Gospel of Matthew, and is identified in that gospel as being the same person as Levi the publican ....
  , Apostle and Evangelist (Lesser Festival) R
• 22 Jonah
  Jonah
  
  According to the Hebrew Bible and Arab Qur'an, Jonah was a prophet who was swallowed by a great fish....
  , prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
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• 26
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• 28
• 29 Saint Michael
  Michael (archangel)
  
  Saint Michael is an archangel in Christian and Islamic tradition. He is viewed as the field commander of the Army of God.He is mentioned by name in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation....
   and All Angels (Lesser Festival) W
• 30 Jerome
  Jerome
  
  Saint Jerome was a Christian priest and Christian apologetics best known for translating the Vulgate. He is recognized by the Catholic Church as a canonized saint and Doctor of the Church, and his version of the Bible is still an important text in Catholicism....
  , translator, teacher, 420 (Commemoration) W

October

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4 Francis of Assisi
  Francis of Assisi
  
  Francis of Assisi was a friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.He is known as the patron saint of animals, the Natural environment and Italy, and it is customary for Catholic Church es to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of 4 October....
  , renewer of the church, 1226 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• Theodor Fliedner
  Theodor Fliedner
  
  Theodor Fliedner was a minister and founder of Lutheran deaconess training. He was born 21 January 1800 in Eppstein in the Taunus and died 4 October 1864 in Kaiserswerth ....
  , renewer of society, 1864 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 5
• 6 William Tyndale
  William Tyndale
  
  William Tyndale was a 16th-century Protestant reformer and scholar who, influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther, translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day....
  , translator, martyr, 1536 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• 7 Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
  Henry Muhlenberg
  
  Henry Melchior Muhlenberg , was a Germany Lutheran pastor, sent to North America as a missionary. Muhlenberg was integral to the founding of the first Lutheran church body, or denomination, in North America and is considered to be the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the United States....
  , pastor in North America, 1787 (Commemoration) W
• 8
• 9 Abraham
  Abraham
  
  Abraham is a man featured in the Book of Genesis and an important figure in several monotheistic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam traditions regard him as the founding Patriarchs of the Israelites, Ishmaelites and Edomite peoples....
  , patriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 10 Massie L. Kennard
  Massie L. Kennard
  
  Massie L. Kennard was an African-American Lutheran pastor who would later become secretary for program personnel for the Lutheran Church in America's Board of American Missions....
  , renewer of the church, 1996 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 11 Saint Phillip
  Philip the Evangelist
  
  Saint Philip the Evangelist appears several times in the Acts of the Apostles. He was one of the Seven Deacons chosen to care for the poor of the Christian community in Jerusalem ....
  , deacon (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 13
• 14
• 15 Teresa of Ávila
  Teresa of Ávila
  
  Saint Teresa of ?vila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystics, Carmelites nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation....
  , teacher, renewer of the church, 1582 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 16
• 17 Ignatius
  Ignatius of Antioch
  
  Ignatius of Antioch was among the Apostolic Fathers, was the third Bishop and Patriarch of Antioch, and was possibly a student of John the Apostle....
  , Bishop of Antioch, martyr, c. 115 (Commemoration) R
• 18 Saint Luke
  Luke the Evangelist
  
  Luke the Evangelist was an early Christianity leader who is said by tradition to be the author of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles....
  , Evangelist (Lesser Festival) R
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• 23 James of Jerusalem
  James the Just
  
  Saint James the Just , , also known as James of Jerusalem, James Adelphotheos, James, the Brother of the Lord, was an important figure in Early Christianity....
  ,brother of Jesus and martyr, c. 62 (Lesser Festival) R
• 24
• 25 Lydia, Dorcas (Tabitha), and Phoebe, faithful women (Commemoration) – LCMS
• 26 Philipp Nicolai
  Philipp Nicolai
  
  Philipp Nicolai was a Germans Lutheran pastor, poet, and composer, author of two famous hymns: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme and Wie sch?n leuchtet der Morgenstern....
  , 1608; Johann Heermann
  Johann Heermann
  
  Johann Heermann , Germany poet and hymn-writer. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 26 October with Philipp Nicolai and Paul Gerhardt....
  , 1647; Paul Gerhardt
  Paul Gerhardt
  
  Paul Gerhardt was a Germany hymn writer. He is commemorated as a hymnwriter in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 26 October with Philipp Nicolai and Johann Heermann....
  , 1676; hymnwriters (Commemoration) W
• 27
• 28 Saint Simon
  Simon the Zealot
  
  The Twelve apostles called Simon Zelotes, Simon the Zealot, in Gospel of Luke 6:15 and Acts of the Apostles 1:13; and Simon Kananaios , was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus....
   and Saint Jude, Apostles (Lesser Festival) R
• 29
• 30
• 31 Reformation Day
  Reformation Day
  
  Reformation Day is a religious holiday celebrated on October 31 in remembrance of the Protestant Reformation, particularly by Lutheran and some Reformed church communities....
   (Lesser Festival) R

November

• 1 All Saints
  All Saints
  
  All Saints' Day , often shortened to All Saints, is a feast celebrated on November 1 in Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity in honour of all the saints, known and unknown....
   (Festival) W
• 2 Daniel Payne
  Daniel Payne
  
  Daniel Alexander Payne was a United States clergyman, educator, college administrator and author. He became a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was a major shaper of it in the 19th century....
  , teacher, 1893 (Commemoration)
• 3 Martín de Porres
  Martin de Porres
  
  Saint Mart?n de Porres was a Dominican Order Lay brother who was beatified in the year 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII....
  , renewer of society, 1639 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 4
• 5 Elizabeth
  Elizabeth (Biblical person)
  
  Saint Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth or Elisheva was the mother of St. John the Baptist and the wife of St. Zachary/Zechariah , according to the New Testament and the Quran....
  , matriarch (Commemoration) R – LCMS
• 6
• 7 John Christian Frederick Heyer
  John Christian Frederick Heyer
  
  John Christian Frederick Heyer was the first missionary sent abroad by Lutheranism in the United States. He founded several Lutheran missions in India, including Guntur Mission....
  , 1873; Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg
  Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg
  
  Bartholom?us Ziegenbalg was a member of the Lutheranism clergy and the first Protestant missionary to India....
  , 1719; Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
  Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
  
  Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen was a Germany Lutheranism missionary to Sumatra who also translated the New Testament into the native Batak languages. Stephen Neill, a historian of missions, considered Nommensen one of the greatest missionaries of all time....
  , 1918; missionaries (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 8 Johann von Staupitz
  Johann von Staupitz
  
  Johann von Staupitz was a theologian, university preacher, Vicar-General of the Augustinians in Germany who supervised Martin Luther during a critical period in that man's spiritual life....
  , priest 1524 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 9 Martin Chemnitz
  Martin Chemnitz
  
  Martin Chemnitz was an eminent second-generation Lutheranism Christian theology, Protestant Reformers, churchman, and confessor. In the Lutheran tradition he is known as Alter Martinus, the "Second Martin": Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix stetisset goes a common saying concerning him....
  , pastor and confessor, 1586 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 11 Martin
  Martin of Tours
  
  Saint Martin of Tours , was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Roman Catholic Church saints....
  , Bishop of Tours, 397 (Commemoration) W
• Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
  Søren Kierkegaard
  
  S?ren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Denmark philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty ceremony of the Church of Denmark....
  , teacher, 1855 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 13
• 14 Emperor Justinian
  Justinian I
  
  Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
  , confessor, Emperor of New Rome, 565 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 16
• 17 Elizabeth
  Elisabeth of Hungary
  
  Saint Elisabeth of Hungary is a German Catholic saint. According to tradition, she was born in the castle of S?rospatak, Hungary, on July 7, 1207....
  , renewer of society, 1231 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 19 Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, 1231 (Commemoration) W – LCMS
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• 23 Clement
  Pope Clement I
  
  Pope Saint Clement I, , also known as Saint Clement of Rome , is listed from an early date as one of the first Bishops of Rome. He was the first Apostolic Father of the early Christian church....
  , Bishop of Rome, c. 100 (Commemoration) W
• Miguel Agustín Pro
  Miguel Pro
  
  Blessed Miguel Agust?n Pro Ju?rez, S.J. was a Mexico Roman Catholic Church Jesuit priest, executed during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of Plutarco El?as Calles after trumped up charges of involvement in an assassination attempt against former President ?lvaro Obreg?n....
  , priest, martyr, 1927 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
• 24 Justus Falckner
  Justus Falckner
  
  Justus Falckner He was the fourth son of Daniel Falckner, a Lutheran pastor at Langenreinsdorf in Saxony. In 1693, he entered the University of Halle, where he studied theology under A....
  , 1723; Jehu Jones
  Jehu Jones
  
  Jehu Jones, Jr. was a Lutheran minister. He founded one of the first African-American Lutheranism congregations in the United States, and was actively involved in improving the social welfare of blacks....
  , 1852; William Passavant
  William Passavant
  
  William A. Passavant was a Lutheranism minister noted for the many helping ministries he helped to create. He is credited in bringing the Deaconess movement to the United States....
  , 1894; pastors in North America (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 25 Isaac Watts
  Isaac Watts
  
  Isaac Watts is recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", as he was the first prolific and popular English hymnwriter, credited with some 750 hymns....
  , hymnwriter, 1748 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 29 Noah
  Noah
  
  Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
  , prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
• 30 Saint Andrew
  Saint Andrew
  
  Saint Andrew , called in the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition Protocletos, or the First-called, is a Christian Twelve Apostles and the younger brother of Saint Peter....
  , Apostle (Lesser Festival) R

December

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• 3 Francis Xavier
  Francis Xavier
  
  Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jaso y Azpilicueta was a Kingdom of Navarre pioneering Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus....
  , missionary to Asia, 1552 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
• 4 John of Damascus
  John of Damascus
  
  John of Damascus was a monk and Priesthood from Damascus. He was born and raised in that city, and died at his monastery Mar Saba.He was a polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music....
  , theologian and hymnwriter, c. 749 (Commemoration) W
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• 6 Nicholas
  Saint Nicholas
  
  Saint Nicholas is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a saint and Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker....
  , Bishop of Myra, c. 342 (Commemoration) W
• 7 Ambrose
  Ambrose
  
  Saint Ambrose was a Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the fourth century. He is counted as one of the four original doctors of the Church....
  , Bishop of Milan, 397 (Commemoration) W
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• 13 Lucy
  Saint Lucy
  
  Saint Lucy, also known as Saint Lucia or Saint Lukia, was a wealthy young Christian martyrs who is venerated as a saint by both Catholic and Eastern Orthodoxy Christians....
  , martyr, 304 (Commemoration) R
• 14 John of the Cross
  John of the Cross
  
  Saint John of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystics, and Carmelites friar and Priesthood , born at Fontiveros, a small village near ?vila....
  , renewer of the church, 1591 (Commemoration) W – ELCA
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• 16 Las Posadas
  Posadas
  
  Las Posadas is a nine-day celebration with origins in Spain beginning December 16 and ending December 24. It is a yearly tradition for many Roman Catholic Mexicans and some other Latin Americans and symbolizes the trials which Mother of Jesus and Joseph of Nazareth endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus of Nazareth could be born,...
  , Mexico (Lesser Festival) P – ELCA
• 17 Daniel
  Daniel
  
  Daniel is a figure appearing in the Hebrew Bible and the central protagonist of the Book of Daniel. The name "Daniel" means "Judged by El ". "Dan" = judge and "i" = a suffix conjugating the verb such that its action applies to the speaker....
   and the Three Young Men
  Fiery furnace
  
  The fiery furnace is a story from the Book of Daniel in the Tanakh . The story is well-known among Jews and Christianity.In the story, Hananiah , Mishael , and Azariah , defy Nebuchadrezzar II's order that they bow down and worship a golden idolatry, a cult image of Nebuchadnezzar....
  , prophets, (Commemoration) R – LCMS
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• 19 Adam, patriarch, and Eve
  Eve (Bible)
  
  Eve was, according to the Book of Genesis, the First man or woman created by God, and an important figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Her husband was Adam, from whose rib God created her to be his helpmate....
  , matriarch (Commemoration) W – LCMS
• 20 Katharina von Bora
  Katharina von Bora
  
  Katharina Luther born Katharina von Bora was a Germany Catholic nun who became the wife of Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation, who often fondly called her "my lord Katie." Beyond what is found in the writings of Luther and some of his contemporaries, little is known about her....
   Luther, renewer of the church, 1552 (Commemoration) W
• 21 St. Thomas, Apostle (Lesser Festival) R – LCMS
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• 24 Christmas Eve
  Christmas Eve
  
  Christmas Eve, December 24, is the night before Christmas Day, which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ ....
   (Festival) W
• 25 The Nativity of our Lord
  Christmas
  
  Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
   (Festival) W
• 26 Stephen
  Saint Stephen
  
  Saint Stephen , known as the Protomartyr of Christianity, is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches....
  , Deacon and Martyr (Lesser Festival) R
• 27 Saint John
  John the Apostle
  
  John the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Christian tradition identifies him as the author of several New Testament works: the Gospel of John, the Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation....
  , Apostle and Evangelist (Lesser Festival) W
• 28 The Holy Innocents
  Massacre of the Innocents
  
  File:Giotto-innocents.jpgThe Massacre of the Innocents is an episode of mass infanticide by the King of Iudaea Province, Herod the Great, that appears in the Gospel of Matthew ....
  , martyrs (Lesser Festival) R
• 29 David
  David
  
  David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
  , prophet (Commemoration) R – LCMS
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See also

• Moveable feast
  Moveable feast
  
  In Christianity, a moveable feast or movable feast is a holy day — a feast day or a fast day — whose date is not fixed to a particular day of the calendar year but moves in response to the date of Easter, the date of which varies according to a computus....
  
• List of saints
  List of saints
  
  This is an incomplete list of Christian saints in alphabetical order by Christian name, but if necessary by surname, the place or attribute part of name as well....