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International May 12th Awareness Day, also known as International ME/CFS Awareness Day is held every year to raise awareness of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, …
International ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
International Nurses Day (IND) is an international day observed around the world on 12 May each year, to mark the contributions that nurses make to society.
International Nurses Day
Philip of Agira was an early Christian clergyman. There are two parallel stories of this saint which give to possible dates in which this saint lived. Traditionally, through the wr…
Christian feast day: Philip of Agira
Flag flying days in Finland are days of the year when the national flag is flown nationwide, either by law or by custom. The flag of Finland is generally flown only on special occa…
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Abbotsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The village is located around 7+1⁄2 miles (12 km) west southwest of Dorchester and 1 mile (1.6 km) inland …
Abbotsbury Garland Day (Dorset, England)
André-Hubert Fournet was a French Roman Catholic priest and together with Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages the founder of the Daughters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew. F…
Christian feast day: André-Hubert Fournet
Our Lady of Fátima is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal…
Christian feast day: Our Lady of Fátima
Maria Concepción Barrecheguren García, also known as Conchita Barrecheguren, was a young Spanish woman. She was beatified on May 6, 2023, by the Catholic Church.
Christian feast day: Conchita Barrecheguren (Roman Catholic)
Gerard of Villamagna - known also as Gerard Mecatti and Gerard of Monza - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member of the Order of Saint John and the Third Order of Saint Fra…
Christian feast day: Gerard of Villamagna
Saint Glyceria was a Roman virgin of the early church.
Christian feast day: Glyceria
John the Silent, also known as "John the Hesychast", was a Christian saint known for living alone for 76 years. He was given the surname because of his affinity for recollection an…
Christian feast day: John the Silent (Roman Catholic)
Julian of Norwich, also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress. Her writings, now known as Revelation…
Christian feast day: Julian of Norwich (Roman Catholic)
Saint Servatius was bishop of Tongeren. Servatius is patron saint of the city of Maastricht and the towns of Schijndel and Grimbergen. He is one of the Ice Saints. His feast day is…
Christian feast day: Servatius
May 12 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 14
Christian feast day: May 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Rotuma Day is an annual celebration on the island of Rotuma, a Fijian dependency. It falls on May 13, the anniversary of the island's cession to the United Kingdom in 1881.
Rotuma Day (Rotuma)
Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member …
Christian feast day: Frances Perkins (Episcopal Church (USA))
Saint Boniface of Tarsus was, according to legend, executed for being a Christian in the year 307 at Tarsus, where he had gone from Rome in order to bring back to his mistress Agla…
Christian feast day: Boniface of Tarsus
Saints Justa, Justina and Henedina of Cagliari were Christian martyrs of Sardinia, put to death at Cagliari or possibly Sassari.
Christian feast day: Justa, Justina and Henedina
Maria Domenica Mazzarello, FMA was an Italian Catholic nun who co-founded the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco.
Christian feast day: Maria Domenica Mazzarello
Matthias was, according to the Acts of the Apostles, chosen by God through the apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter's betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death.…
Christian feast day: Matthias the Apostle (Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ame
Michel Garicoïts was a French Basque Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bétharram. He combated Jansenism in his parish due to…
Christian feast day: Michael Garicoïts
Mo Chutu mac Fínaill, also known as Mochuda, Carthach or Carthach the Younger, was abbot of Rahan, County Offaly, and subsequently, founder and first abbot of Lismore, County Water…
Christian feast day: Mo Chutu of Lismore (Roman Catholic Church)
Anne Thérèse Guérin, designated by the Vatican as Saint Theodora, was a French-American saint and the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, a congregat…
Christian feast day: Théodore Guérin
Saints Victor and Corona are two Christian martyrs. Victor was a Roman soldier who was tortured and killed; Corona was killed for comforting him. Corona is invoked as a patron of c…
Christian feast day: Victor and Corona