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Dorcas, or Tabitha, was an early disciple of Jesus mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. She lived in the port city of Joppa, today absorbed by Tel Aviv. Acts describes her as bei…
Christian feast day: Tabitha (Dorcas)
Tegulus is venerated as a member of the legendary Theban Legion, whose members were led by Maurice in the 3rd century. The center of Tegulus' cult is at Ivrea. Veneration of Tegul…
Christian feast day: Tegulus
Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh c. 1455 – 25 October 1492, was an Irish ecclesiastic. He was a bishop who never ruled his see, even though he was appointed to two of them: Bishop of Ross, Irel…
Christian feast day: Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales or Cuthbert Mayne and Thirty-Nine Companion Martyrs are a group of Catholic, lay and religious, men and women, executed between 1535 and 1679…
Christian feast day: The Six Welsh Martyrs and companions (in Wales)
The Hallowing of Nestorius is one of the Eucharistic liturgies used in the Church of the East. It is currently employed in the Holy Qurbana of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyria…
Christian feast day: The Hallowing of Nestorius
October 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 26
Christian feast day: October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
A national day is a day on which celebrations mark the statehood or nationhood of a state or its people. It may be the date of independence, of becoming a republic, of becoming a f…
Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country)
Republic Day, observed on October 25, is a Public holiday in Kazakhstan, celebrating the declaration of sovereignty of the Kazakh SSR from the Soviet Union. In the waning days of S…
Republic Day (Kazakhstan)
Retrocession Day, officially called the Taiwan Retrocession Day and the Anniversary of the Battle of Guningtou, is a public holiday in the Republic of China (Taiwan), and from 2025…
Retrocession Day and the memorial day for the Battle of Guningtou ( Taiwan)
Sovereignty Day is a public holiday in Slovenia, celebrated on 25 October. It commemorates one of the key events in the process of attaining independence, namely withdrawal of the …
Sovereignty Day (Slovenia)
This is a list of holidays in Grenada.January 1: New Year's Day February 7: Independence Day, from the United Kingdom in 1974. (variable): Good Friday (variable) Easter Monday May…
Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)
Accession Day is a celebration in Jammu and Kashmir that commemorates 26 October 1947, the day when Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession, by which Jammu and Kashm…
Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir, India)
Angam Day is a holiday recognised in the Republic of Nauru. It is celebrated yearly on 26 October.
Angam Day (Nauru)
Alfred the Great was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and Æthelwulf'…
Christian feast day: Alfred the Great (Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Eastern Orthodox Church)
Amandus of Strasbourg was, about 346, the first Bishop of Strasbourg. His feast day is 26 October.
Christian feast day: Amandus of Strasbourg
Beóán of Mortlach is the first of the three known Bishops of Mortlach. His name, which could also be written in non-Gaelic contexts as Beanus, Beoanus and Beyn, means "lively one".…
Christian feast day: Beóán (Bean) of Mortlach
Beatification is an act by which the Catholic Church formally recognizes that a deceased member of the faithful is believed to have entered Heaven and is capable of interceding on …
Christian feast day: Blessed Celine Borzecka
Cedd was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop from the Kingdom of Northumbria. He was an evangelist of the Middle Angles and East Saxons in England and a significant participant in the S…
Christian feast day: Cedd
Cuthbert was a medieval Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in England. Prior to his elevation to Canterbury, he was abbot of a monastic house, and perhaps may have been Bishop of…
Christian feast day: Cuthbert of Canterbury
Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica, also known as the Holy Great-Martyr Demetrius the Myroblyte, was a Greek Christian martyr of the early 4th century AD.
Christian feast day: Demetrius of Thessaloniki
Eadfrith of Leominster also known as Eadridus was a seventh century saint from Anglo-Saxon England. Although very little is known of his life and he is not mentioned in contemporar…
Christian feast day: Eadfrith of Leominster
Eata, also known as Eata of Lindisfarne, was Bishop of Hexham from 678 until 681, and of then Bishop of Lindisfarne from before 681 until 685. He then was translated back to Hexham…
Christian feast day: Eata of Hexham
Pope Evaristus was the bishop of Rome from c. 99/100 to his death in 107/108. He was also known as Aristus and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Chur…
Christian feast day: Pope Evaristus (Aristus)