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Necrology

Papal Audiences

Feasts

  • 2025.01.30: 

Thursday in the 3ʳᵈ Week in Ordinary Time

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Świdnica)

Blessed Bronisław Markiewicz, priest (Ukraine, Przemyśl)

Blessed Gabriele Allegra, priest (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan)

Blessed Manuel Domingo y Sol, priest (Toledo)

Blessed Marco da Montegallo, religious (Vicenza)

Blessed Sebastian Valfrè, priest (Torino)

Saint Adelelmus of Burgos, abbot (Burgos, Poitiers)

Saint Aidan of Ferns, bishop (Ireland)

Saint Aldegonde of Maubeuge, religious (Cambrai, Tournai, Trier)

Saint Eusebius, monk (Liechtenstein)

Saint Francis Xavier Mary Bianchi, priest (Napoli, Nola, Palestrina, Sora–Cassino–Aquino–Pontecorvo)

Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti, virgin (Civita Castellana, Viterbo)

Saint Martina, virgin and martyr (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Mutien-Marie Wiaux, religious (Liège, Mechelen–Brussel, Namur, Tournai)

Saint Peter Nolasco, priest (Carcassonne et Narbonne)

Thursday in the 3ʳᵈ Week after Epiphany (Ambrosian)

Day of Venerating Ancestors (Vietnam)

  • 2025.01.31: 

Saint John Bosco, priest

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Cheyenne, Ibiza)

Day of Prayer for Sanctifying Works (Vietnam)

  • 2025.02.01: 

Saturday in the 3ʳᵈ Week in Ordinary Time

The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Gniezno)

Blessed Andrea Carlo Ferrari, bishop (Ambrosian, Como)

Blessed Andrea Conti, priest (Anagni–Alatri)

Blessed Anna Michelotti, virgin (Susa, Torino)

Blessed Benedict Daswa, martyr (South Africa)

Blessed Candelaria of Saint Joseph, virgin (Venezuela)

Blessed Jacques Ledoyen, priest, and companions, martyrs (Laval)

Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (Roma)

Blessed Martyrs of Angers (Angers)

Blessed Odile Baumgarten, virgin and martyr (Metz)

Blessed Stephen Bellesini, priest (Trento)

Blesseds Catherine Cottenceau, Félicité Pricet, Marie Banchereau-Fausseuse, Perrine Turbault-Potier, Victoire Gusteau, Victoire Réveillère-Bauduceau, and companions, martyrs (Poitiers)

Saint Agrevius of Le Puy, bishop (Le Puy-en-Velay)

Saint Ansgar, bishop (Viana do Castelo)

Saint Blase, bishop and martyr (Sweden)

Saint Brigid of Kildare, abbess (Ireland, Strasbourg)

Saint Caecilius of Elvira, bishop and martyr (Granada)

Saint Felix of Salerno, priest and martyr (Salerno–Campagna–Acerno)

Saint Henry Morse, religious and martyr (East Anglia)

Saint Ignatius, bishop and martyr (Extraordinary Form)

Saint John Bosco, priest (Ibiza)

Saint Raymond of Fitero, abbot (Pamplona y Tudela)

Saint Severus of Ravenna, bishop (Ravenna–Cervia)

Saint Sigebert (Metz)

Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, martyr (Nancy)

  • 2025.02.02: 

The Presentation of the Lord

Our Lady of Candelaria (San Cristóbal de La Laguna)

The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Extraordinary Form)

  • 2025.02.03: 

Monday in the 4ᵗʰ Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Ansgar, bishop

Saint Blase, bishop and martyr

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Antofagasta, Arequipa, Tromsø)

Blessed Iustus Takayama Ukon, martyr (Japan)

Feria: 4ᵗʰ Sunday after Epiphany (Extraordinary Form)

Monday in the 4ᵗʰ Week after Epiphany (Ambrosian)

Saint Anatolius, bishop (Saint-Claude)

Saint Anne Line, martyr (Brentwood)

Saint Aventinus of Chartres, bishop (Chartres)

Saint Berlinda of Meerbeke, hermit (Gent)

Saint Hadelin, abbé (Liège, Namur)

Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac, religious (Bordeaux)

Saint Julian of Cuenca, bishop (Palencia)

Saint Laurence of Canterbury, bishop (Southwark)

Saint Laurence, Saint Dunstan and Saint Theodore, bishops (Westminster)

Saint Marie Rivier, virgin (Nîmes)

Saint Simeon and Saint Anna, prophets (Jerusalem)

Saint Teridius and Saint Remedius, bishops (Gap–Embrun)

Saint Theodore of Marseille, bishop (Marseille)

Saint Théophane Vénard, priest and martyr (Angers, Hà Nôi)

Saint Tryphon, martyr (Kotor)

  • 2025.02.04: 

Tuesday in the 4ᵗʰ Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Marie-Eugène de l’Enfant-Jésus, priest (Aix)

Blessed Nils Hermansson, bishop (Sweden)

Blessed Stephen Bellesini, priest (Palestrina)

Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr (Mexico, Bolzano–Bressanone)

Saint Andrew Corsini, bishop and confessor (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Ansgar, bishop (Slovenia)

Saint Blase, bishop and martyr (København)

Saint Gilbert of Sempringham, priest (Nottingham)

Saint Joan of France, religious (Blois, Bourges, Chartres, Créteil)

Saint John de Britto, priest and martyr (Angola, Cabo Verde, India, Macau, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor-Leste)

Saint Joseph of Leonessa, priest (Perugia–Città della Pieve, Rieti)

Saint Maria de Mattias, virgin (Liechtenstein, Anagni–Alatri, Civitavecchia–Tarquinia, Frosinone–Veroli–Ferentino)

Saint Rabanus Maurus, bishop (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Bolzano–Bressanone)

Tuesday in the 4ᵗʰ Week after Epiphany (Ambrosian)

  • 2025.02.05: 

Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr

26 Martyrs of Japan (Japan)

Saint Adelaide of Vilich, virgin and abbess (Köln)

Saint Ingenuin and Saint Albuin, bishops (Bolzano–Bressanone)

Saint Philip of Jesus, martyr (Mexico, Venezuela)

Wednesday in the 4ᵗʰ Week in Ordinary Time (Venezuela, Bolzano–Bressanone, Köln)

Martyrology

  • 2025.01.30: 

Saint Matthias, bishop of Jerusalem

Saint Barsamya, bishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne

Saint Martina, martyr at Rome

Saint Bathilde, queen of Burgundy and Neustria

Saint Aldegonde, abbess of Maubeuge

Saint Armentario, bishop of Pavia

Saint Theophilus, martyr

Saint Lesmes, abbot of Burgos

Blessed Francis Taylor, martyr at Dublin

Saint Giacinta Marescotti, virgin of the Franciscan Third Order

Blessed Sebastiano Valfrè, Oratorian priest

Saint Paulus Hŏ Hyŏb, soldier, martyr of Korea

Saint Tôma Khuông, priest and martyr of Vietnam

Saint David Galván Bermúdez, priest and martyr of Mexico

Saint Mutien-Marie Wiaux, Lasalian brother

Blessed Columba Marmion, abbot of Maredsous

Blessed Carmen García Moyón, martyr of Spain

Blessed Zygmunt Pisarski, priest and martyr at Dachau

  • 2025.01.31: 

Saint John Bosco, priest, founder of the Salesian Society and Daughters of the Help of Christians

Saints Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion and Papias, martyrs at Corinth

Saint Metranus, martyr at Alexandria of Egypt

Saints Cyrus and John, martyrs

Saint Geminiano, bishop of Modena

Saint Abraham, bishop of Arbil, martyr

Saint Giulio, priest

Saint Marcella, widow

Saint Aidan, bishop of Ferns

Saint Gaud, bishop of Évreux

Saint Eusebius, hermit at Viktorsberg

Blessed Ludovica, widow, Franciscan tertiary

Saint Francis Xavier Bianchi, Barnabite priest

Saint Augustinus Pak Chong-wŏn, catechist, and 5 companions, martyrs of Korea

  • 2025.02.01: 

Saint Tryphon, martyr at Phrygia

Saint Severo, bishop of Ravenna

Saint Paul, bishop of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux

Saint Brigid, virgin and abbess of Kildare

Saint Orso, priest of Aosta

Saint Agrippan, bishop of Le Puy and martyr

Saint Sigebert, king of Austrasia

Saint Raimundo, abbot and founder of the Order of Calatrava

Saint Jean, bishop of Saint-Malo

Blessed Réginald d’Orléans, Dominican priest

Saint Verdiana, virgin

Blessed Andrea Conti da Segni, Franciscan priest

Blesseds Conor O’Devany, Franciscan, bishop of Down and Connor, and Patrick O’Loughran, priest, martyrs of Ireland

Saint Henry Morse, Jesuit priest and martyr of England

Blesseds Marie-Anne Vaillot and 46 companions, martyrs of France

Saints Paulus Hong Yŏng-ju, Ioannes Yi Mun-u and Barbara Ch’oe Yŏng-i, martyrs of Korea

Blessed Giovanna Francesca, virgin, founder of Little Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the Sick Poor

Blessed Luigi Variara, Salesian priest, founder of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

  • 2025.02.02: 

The Presentation of the Lord

Saint Flosculus, bishop of Orléans

Saint Laurence, bishop of Canterbury

Saint Burkard, bishop of Würzburg

Blessed Simone Fidati, Augustinian priest

Blessed Pietro Cambiani, Dominican priest and martyr

Saint Catherine of Ricci, virgin of Third Order Dominicans

Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac, founder of the Company of Mary, Our Lady

Saint Nicola da Longobardi, religious of the Order of Minims

Blessed Stefano Bellesini, Augustinian priest

Saint Jean-Théophane Vénard, Paris Foriegn Missions priest and martyr of Vietnam

Saint Maria Kasper, founder of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ

Blessed Andrea Carlo Ferrari, archbishop of Milan, cardinal

Saint Maria dell’Immacolata Mantovani, founder of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ

  • 2025.02.03: 

Saint Blaise, bishop of Sebastea and martyr

Saint Ansgar, archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen

Saints Simeon and Anna, prophets

Saints Celerinus, lector, Celerina, Laurence and Ignatius, martyrs

Saint Lienne, priest

Saints Tigride and Remède, bishop of Gap

Saint Lupicinus, bishop of Lyons

Saint Hadelin, priest and abbot of Chelles

Saint Werburgh, abbess

Saint Berlindis, virgin

Blessed Hélinand, monk

Blessed John Nelson, Jesuit priest and martyr of England

Saint Marie de Saint-Ignace Thévenet, virgin, founder of the Religious of Jesus and Mary

Saint Marie-Anne Rivier, virgin, founder of the Sisters of Presentation

Blessed Maria Virgo Stollenwerk, virgin, founder of the Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit

  • 2025.02.04: 

Saint Eutichio, martyr at Rome

Saints Papias, Diodorus and Claudianus, martyrs of Perge

Saints Phileas, bishop, and Philoromus, tribune, martyrs

Saint Isidore, priest in Egypt, hermit

Saint Aventin, bishop of Chartres

Saint Aventin de Troyes, hermit

Saint Rabano Mauro, bishop of Mainz

Saint Nicholas the Studite, hegumen of the monastery of Studion

Saint Gilbert, priest, founder the abbey of Sempringham, founder of the Gilbertine Order

Saint Jeanne de France, queen of France, founder of the Nuns of Annunciation

Blessed John Speed, martyr of England

Saint Giuseppe da Leonessa, Capuchin priest

Saint John de Britto, Jesuit priest and martyr of India

  • 2025.02.05: 

Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr

Holy martyrs of Pontus

Saint Avit, bishop of Vienne

Saint Ingenuino, first bishop of Bressanone

Saint Luke, abbot

Saint Sabas, monk

Saint Albuino, bishop of Bressanone

Saint Adelaide of Vilich, first abbess of the monastery of Vilich

Passion of Saints Paul Miki and 25 companions, martyrs

Blessed Françoise Mézière, virgin and martyr

Blessed Elisabetta Canori Mora, mother of family, of the Third Order Trinitarians

Saint Jesús Méndez Montoya, priest and martyr


Celebrations

Jubilee Churches of the Holy Year 2025

Liturgical Booklets of Papal Celebrations

Commemorations

Jubilarians