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Saints Eulampius and Eulampia are venerated as 3rd century Christian martyrs. According to tradition, they were brother and sister and natives of Nicomedia and were executed during…
Christian feast day: Eulampius and Eulampia
Gereon of Cologne, who may have been a soldier, was martyred at Cologne by beheading, probably in the early 4th century.
Christian feast day: Gereon and companions
María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray - in religious María Desposorios - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and a professed member from the Siervos de María Ministros de …
Christian feast day: Blessed María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray (Maria Desposorios)
Paulinus was a Roman missionary and the first Bishop of York. A member of the Gregorian mission sent in 601 by Pope Gregory I to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Ang…
Christian feast day: Paulinus of York (in England)
Saint Pinytus, a Greek by birth, was Bishop of Knossos in Crete in the late 2nd century.
Christian feast day: Pinytus
Saint Tanca is the name of a sixth-century French Roman Catholic saint.
Christian feast day: Tanca
Julia Vida Dutton Scudder (1861–1954) was an American educator, writer, and welfare activist in the social gospel movement.
Christian feast day: Vida Dutton Scudder (Episcopal Church)
Viktor of Xanten was a 4th century martyr and saint recognized by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since the 12th century, his presumed bones have been ke…
Christian feast day: Viktor of Xanten
October 9 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 11
Christian feast day: October 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
This is a list of public holidays in Sint Maarten.
Constitution Day (Sint Maarten)
This is a list of public holidays in Curaçao.
Curaçao Day, anniversary of autonomy
The National Day of the Republic of China, also referred to as Double Ten Day or Double Tenth Day, is a public holiday on 10 October, now held annually as national day in the Repub…
Double Ten Day (The National Day of Republic of China), celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led…
Fiji Week is a week of festivities culminating in Fiji Day on 10 October annually. A different theme is chosen every year, but common elements include religious ceremonies and cult…
Fiji Day (Fiji)
The Cry of Yara was a declaration, battle cry, and uprising in eastern Cuba on 10 October 1868, initiating the Ten Years' War. The signaling of the Yara uprising occurred near Manz…
Independence Day (Cuba)
The Party Foundation Day is an annual public holiday in North Korea marking the 10 October 1945 foundation of the "Central Organizing Committee of the Communist Party of North Kore…
Party Foundation Day (North Korea)
World Day Against the Death Penalty is a day to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and to raise awareness of the conditions and the circumstances which affect prisoner…
World Day Against the Death Penalty
Agilbert was the second bishop of the West Saxon kingdom and later Bishop of Paris. He is venerated as a saint within the Catholic Church, with his feast day falling on 11 October.
Christian feast days: Agilbert
Alexander (Alessandro) Sauli was an Italian priest who is called the "Apostle of Corsica". He is a saint of the Catholic Church. In 1571, he was appointed by Pius V to the ancient …
Christian feast days: Alexander Sauli
Andronicus, Probus and Tarachus were martyrs of the Diocletian persecution, executed in Cilicia. Their feast day is 11 October. According to tradition, Tarachus was beaten with sto…
Christian feast days: Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Roman Catholic Church)
World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative …
World Mental Health Day
Mary's Meals, formerly known as Scottish International Relief (SIR), is a registered charity which sets up school feeding programmes in some of the world's poorest communities, whe…
World Porridge Day
Saint Æthelburh or Ethelburga was the founder and first abbess of Barking Abbey and sister of Saint Earconwald, Bishop of London.
Christian feast days: Æthelburh of Barking
Bruno the Great was the archbishop of Cologne from 953 until his death and the duke of Lotharingia after 954. He was the youngest brother of Emperor Otto I.
Christian feast days: Bruno the Great
Cainnech of Aghaboe (515/16–600), also known as Saint Canice in Ireland, Saint Kenneth in Scotland, Saint Kenny and in Latin Sanctus Canicus, was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, …
Christian feast days: Cainnech of Aghaboe