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Verena of Zurzach, also known as Saint Verena, was an early Christian consecrated virgin and hermit. She is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Chur…
Christian feast day: Verena
Saint Vibiana is a third-century virgin martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. She is the patroness of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Her liturgical feast day is 1 September.
Christian feast day: Vibiana
The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons that determines when fe…
Christian feast day: The beginning of the new liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic…
Aug. 31 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 2
Christian feast day: September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Knowledge Day, often simply called 1 September, is the day when the school year traditionally starts in Russia and many other former Soviet republics as well as other countries in …
Knowledge Day (Former Soviet Union)
The 1969 Libyan revolution or coup d'état, also known as al-Fateh Revolution or 1 September Revolution, was a coup d'état and revolution carried out by the Free Officers movement, …
Anniversary of Al Fateh Revolution (Gaddafists in Libya)
Wattle Day is a day of celebration in Australia on the first day of September each year, which is the start of the Australian spring.
Wattle Day (Australia)
Acepsimas of Hnaita was a bishop, martyr, and saint.
Christian feast day: Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Saint Agricola of Avignon was a bishop of Avignon. According to tradition, Agricola ("farmer") was the son of Saint Magnus, also a bishop of the city.
Christian feast day: Agricola of Avignon
Saint Antoninus of Pamiers was an early Christian missionary and martyr, called the "Apostle of the Rouergue". His life is dated to the first, second, fourth, and fifth century by …
Christian feast day: Antoninus of Pamiers
Brocard is said to have been one of the first leaders of hermits at Mount Carmel, and was perhaps the leader of the community on the death of Berthold of Calabria around 1195. Vari…
Christian feast day: Brocard
Castor of Apt was a bishop of Apt, in Gaul, perhaps the 4th bishop.
Christian feast day: Castor of Apt
Saint Diomedes of Tarsus is venerated as a Greek Christian saint and martyr, being one of the Holy Unmercenaries.
Christian feast day: Diomedes
Eleazar or Elazar was a priest in the Hebrew Bible, the second High Priest, succeeding his father Aaron after he died. He was a nephew of Moses.
Christian feast day: Eleazar
Hieu was a 7th-century Irish abbess who worked in Northumbria. She was foundress of abbeys at Hartlepool and Healaugh in Yorkshire England. Hieu was also the first of the saintly r…
Christian feast day: Hieu (abbess)
Ingrid of Skänninge was a Swedish prioress. She founded Skänninge Abbey, a nunnery belonging to the Order of Preachers, in 1272. Her feast day is on 2 September.
Christian feast day: Ingrid of Sweden
Justus of Lyon was the 13th Bishop of Lyon. He succeeded Verissimus in the mid-4th century. He is venerated as a saint by both the Catholic and the Orthodox Church, with a feast da…
Christian feast day: Justus of Lyon
Margaret of Louvain was a servant murdered by thieves. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church; her shrine is in St. Peter's Church in Louvain.
Christian feast day: Margaret of Louvain
Maxima of Rome was a slave and friend of Saint Ansanus of Siena. She was martyred by being beaten to death in the persecutions of Diocletian, circa 304. Locally recognized as saint…
Christian feast day: Maxima of Rome
Saint Nonnosus, also Nonosius, was a prior at the San Silvestre monastery on Monte Soratte north of Rome and later a monk at Suppentonia, near Civita Castellana. He was a contempor…
Christian feast day: Nonnosus
William of Roskilde was a Danish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Roskilde in Denmark from about 1060.
Christian feast day: William of Roskilde
Sep. 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 3
Christian feast day: September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE), officially the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, is the unicameral and highest legislative organ of the Central Tibetan Admi…
Democracy Day (Tibet)
An Independence Day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state…
Independence Day (Transnistria, unrecognized)