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Bernard Vu Van Due, was a Vietnamese convert to Catholicism. He became a priest and worked as a missionary in the country for several decades. He was arrested and beheaded in 1838,…
Christian feast day: Bernard Võ Văn Duệ (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name…
Christian feast day: Blessed Gerhard Hirschfelder
Eusebius of Vercelli was a bishop from Sardinia and is counted a saint. Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against Arianism.
Christian feast day: Eusebius of Vercelli
Saint Felix of Girona is a Catalan saint. He was martyred at Girona after traveling from Carthage with Saint Cucuphas to Spain as a missionary.
Christian feast day: Felix of Girona
The liberation of the apostle Peter is an event described in chapter 12 of the Acts of the Apostles, in which the apostle Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. Although describ…
Christian feast day: Peter Apostle in Chains
Saint Exuperius of Bayeux (Exupère), also known as Spirius, is venerated as the first bishop of Bayeux. The date of his episcopate is given as 390 to 405, but local legends made hi…
Christian feast day: Exuperius of Bayeux
The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, the Eleven Nuns of Nowogródek or Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions, were a group of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth executed by t…
Christian feast day: Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions
The Feast of the Holy Cross, Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, or Feast of the Cross commemorates the True Cross. On 13 September, 335, the Constantinian Basilica over the…
Christian feast day: Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast (Eastern Orthodoxy)
The woman with seven sons was a Jewish martyr described in the deuterocanonical 2 Maccabees 7 and elaborated in 4 Maccabees. She and her seven sons were arrested during the persecu…
Christian feast day: The Holy Maccabees
July 31 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Aug. 2
Christian feast day: August 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Minden Day is a regimental anniversary celebrated on 1 August by certain units of the British Army. It commemorates the participation of the forerunners of the regiments in the Bat…
Minden Day (United Kingdom)
This is a list of holidays in Benin.
National Day, celebrates the independence of Benin from France in 1960.
This is a list of holidays in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Parents' Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and …
Statehood Day (Colorado)
Swiss National Day is the national holiday of Switzerland, set on 1 August. Although the founding of the Swiss Confederacy was first celebrated on this date in 1891 and annually si…
Swiss National Day, commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291.
Victory Day is a commonly used name for public holidays in various countries, where it commemorates a nation's triumph over a hostile force in a war or the liberation of a country …
Victory Day (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
The Tongan archipelago has been inhabited for perhaps 3,000 years, since settlement in late Lapita times. The culture of its inhabitants has surely changed greatly over this long t…
Official Birthday and Coronation Day of the King of Tonga (Tonga)
Lughnasadh, Lughnasa or Lúnasa is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of …
The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere…
Scouts' Day or Guides' Day is a generic term for special days observed by members of the Scouting movement throughout the year. Some of these days have religious significance, whil…
World Scout Scarf Day
Yorkshire Day is a yearly celebration on 1 August to promote the historic county of Yorkshire, in England. It was celebrated by the Yorkshire Ridings Society in 1975, initially in …
Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire, England)
Ahudemmeh was the Grand Metropolitan of the East in the Syriac Orthodox Church from 559 until his execution in 575. He was known as the Apostle of the Arabs, and is commemorated as…
Christian feast day: Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church).
Vasily the Blessed was a Russian fool for Christ (yurodivy) who is venerated as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Christian feast day: Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)
Ceferino Giménez Malla was a Spanish Romani Catholic catechist and activist. A victim of the Republican militias during the Spanish Civil War, Giménez Malla was beatified on 4 May …
Christian feast day: Ceferino Giménez Malla
Saints Centola and Helen were, according to Christian tradition, two women who were martyred at Burgos in 304 AD during the persecution of Christians by Diocletian.
Christian feast day: Centola and Helen