Saints and Commemorations

of the Episcopal Church

 

This page lists all Saints' Days and Commemorations of the Episcopal Church alphabetically, with links to pages which give the lectionary readings and more information about each one. For a listing by date, see the Kalendar page. Items in bold are Principal Feasts or Holy Days of the Episcopal Church. Items within brackets are approved provisionally, to be confirmed at the next General Convention.

A
  Aelred, Jan 12
  [Gregorio Aglipay], Sept. 5
  Agnes, Jan. 21
  Aidan, Aug. 31
  Alban, June 22
  Alcuin, May 20
  Alfred the Great, Oct. 26
 

All Faithful Departed, Nov. 2
  All Saints, Nov. 1
  [Richard Allen], March 26
  [Roland Allen], June 8
  Alphege, April 19
  Ambrose, Dec. 7
  Andrew, Nov. 30
  Lancelot Andrewes, Sept. 26
  [Charles Freer Andrews], Feb. 12
  The Annunciation, March 25
  Anselm, April 21
  Anskar, Feb 3 [Feb. 4]
  Antony, Jan. 17
  Thomas Aquinas, Jan. 28
  [Francis Asbury], Nov. 15
  Athanasius, May 2
  Augustine of Canterbury, May 26
  Augustine of Hippo, Aug. 28
  [Anne Ayers], April 8
  [Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah], Jan. 2

 

B
  [Johann Sebastian Bach], July 28
  Barnabas the Apostle, June 11
  [Karl Barth], Dec. 10
  Bartholomew the Apostle, Aug. 24
  Basil the Great, June 14
  [Richard Baxter], Dec. 8
  Thomas Becket, Dec. 29
  Bede, the Venerable, May 25
  Harriet Bedell, Jan. 8
  [George Kennedy Allen Bell], Oct. 3
  Benedict of Nursia, July 11
  [Richard Meux Benson], Jan. 16
  [George Berkeley], June 16
  Bernard of Clairvaux, Aug. 20
  [Queen Bertha], May 27
  Blandina and Her Companions, June 2
  [William Dwight Porter Bliss], Oct. 8
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman, July 20
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, April 9
  Boniface, June 5
  First Book of Common Prayer, May or June
  [John Bosco], Jan. 31
  [George Freeman Bragg, Jr], Aug. 3
  [Mary Brant], April 16
  Thomas Bray, Feb. 15
  James Lloyd Breck, April 2
  Charles Henry Brent, March 25
  Brigid, Feb. 1
  Phillips Brooks, Jan. 23
  [Henry Budd], Dec. 14
  [John Bunyan], Aug. 29
  [Harry Thacker Burleigh], Sept. 11
  Joseph Butler, June 16
  [William Byrd], Nov. 21

 

C
  [John Calvin], May 28
  [Harriet Starr Cannon], May 7
  [William Carey], Oct. 19
  [Wilson Carlile], Sept. 26
  [Adelaide Teague Case], July 19
  [John Cassian], Feb. 29
  Catherine of Siena, April 29
  [Cecilia], Nov. 22
  Chad, March 2
  [Thomas Bradbury Chandler], Aug. 17
  Philander Chase, Sept. 22
  [G. K. Chesterton], June 13
  [James Chisholm], Sept. 15
  Christmas Day, Dec. 25
  Clare of Assisi, Aug. 11
  Clement of Alexandria, Dec. 5
  Clement of Rome, Nov. 23
  Columba, June 9
  Constance and her Companions, Sept. 9
  The Confession of Saint Peter, Jan. 18
  The Conversion of Saint Paul, Jan. 25
  [Anna Julia Harward Cooper], Feb. 28
  [Nicholas Copernicus], May 23
  Cornelius the Centurion, Feb. 4 [Feb. 7]
  [Ralph Adams Cram], Dec. 16
  [Lucas Cranach, the Elder], Aug. 5
  [Prudence Crandall], Sept. 3
  Thomas Cranmer, Oct. 16 [March 21]
  [Fanny Crosby], Feb. 11
  [Samuel Ajayi Crowther], Dec. 31
  Alexander Crummel, Sept. 10
  [Paul Cuffee], March 4
  Cuthbert, March 20 [Aug. 31]
  [Timothy Cutler], Aug. 17
  Cyril and Methodius, Feb. 14
  Cyril of Jerusalem, March 18
  Cyprian, Sept. 13 [Sept. 15]

 

D
  [Damien], April 15
  Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Aug. 14
  David, March 1
  James De Koven, March 22
  [Henry Beard Delany & Edward Thomas Demby], April 14
  Dominic, Aug. 8
  John Donne, March 31
  [The Dorchester Chaplains], Feb. 3
  [Frederick Douglass], Feb. 20
  [W. E. B. DuBois], Aug. 3
  William Porcher DuBose, Aug. 18
  Dunstan, May 19
  [Albrecht Dürer], Aug. 5

 

E
  Edmund of East Anglia, Nov. 20
  [John Eliot], May 21
  Elizabeth of Hungary, Nov. 19
  [Richard Theodore Ely], Oct. 8
  Julia Chester Emery, Jan. 9
  Kamehameha and Emma, Nov. 28
  Enmegahbowh, June 12
  Ephrem of Edessa, June 10
  The Epiphany, Jan. 6
  [King Ethelbert], May 27

 

F
  Fabian, Jan. 20
  [Samuel Ferguson], Aug. 2
  Nicholas Ferrar, Dec. 1
  [Charles de Foucould], Dec. 1
  Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4
  [Francis Xavier], Dec. 3

 

G
  Thomas Gallaudet, Aug. 27
  [William Lloyd Garrison], Dec. 17
  [George], April 23
  [Washington Gladden], July 2
  [Charles Chapman Grafton], Aug. 30
  Gregory the Great, of Rome, March 12
  Gregory of Nazianzus, May 9
  Gregory of Nyssa, March 9
  Gregory the Illuminator, March 23
  [Wilfred Grenfell], Oct. 9
  [Charles Gore], Jan. 16
  Robert Grosseteste, Oct. 9 [Nov. 17]
  [Matthias Grünewald], Aug. 5
  [Nikolai Grundtvig], Sept. 8

 

H
  [Sarah Hale], April 30
  [George Frederick Handel], July 28
  James Hannington, Oct. 29
  [Isabel Florence Hapgood], June 26
  [William Hobart Hare], May 17
  George Herbert, Feb. 27
  [Herman of Alaska], Aug. 9
  Hilary, Jan. 13
  Hilda of Whitby, Nov. 18
  Hildegard of Bingen, Sept. 17
  [Cornelius Hill], June 27
  [Walter Hilton], Sept. 28
  John Henry Hobart, Sept. 12
  Holy Cross Day, Sept. 14
  Holy Innocents, Dec. 28
  The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Jan. 1
  James Theodore Holly, March 13
  Richard Hooker, Nov. 3
  [John Horden], Dec. 15
  Hugh of Lincoln, Nov. 17
  [Robert Hunt], April 26
  James Otis Sargent Huntington, Nov. 25
  William Reed Huntington, July 27
  [Jan Hus], July 6
  [Anne Hutchinson], Feb. 5

 

I
  Ignatius of Antioch, Oct. 17
  Ignatius of Loyola, July 31
  Independence Day, July 4
  [Innocent of Alaska], March 30
  Irenaeus, June 28

 

J
  James the Apostle, July 25
  Philip and James, May 1
  James of Jerusalem, Oct. 23
  [Jeanne d'Arc], May 30
  Jerome, Sept. 30
  John, Apostle and Evangelist, Dec. 27
  John the Baptist, June 24
  John Chrysostom, Jan. 27 [Sept. 13]
  John of Damascus, Dec. 4
  [John XXIII], June 4
  [James Weldon Johnson], June 25
  [Samuel Johnson], Aug. 17
  Absalom Jones, Feb. 13
  Paul Jones, Sept. 4
  Joseph, March 19
  Joseph of Arimathaea, Aug. 1
  [Frances Joseph-Gaudet], Dec. 30
  [Juan de la Cruz], Nov. 24
  Simon and Jude, Oct. 28
  [Adoniram Judson], April 12
  Dame Julian of Norwich, May 8
  Justin, June 1

 

K
  [Toyohiko Kagawa], April 23
  Kamehameha and Emma, Nov. 28
  John Keble, March 29
  [Marjery Kempe], Sept. 28
  Jackson Kemper, May 24
  Thomas Ken, March 21 [March 20]
  [Johannes Kepler], May 23
  Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4
  [Søren Kierkegaard], Sept. 8
  [Ini Kopuria], June 6

 

L
  [Bartholomé de Las Casas], July 18
  [John LaFarge], Dec. 16
  Hugh Latimer, Oct. 16
  William Laud, Jan. 10
  William Law, April 10
  Lawrence of Rome, Aug. 10
  Leo the Great, Nov. 10
  C. S. Lewis, Nov. 22
  Florence Li Tim-Oi, Jan. 24
  [Eric Liddell], Feb. 22
  [Rosa de Lima], Aug. 23
  Louis, King of France, Aug. 25
  [Lucy], Dec. 13
  Luke, Oct. 18
  Martin Luther, Feb. 18
  [Albert. M. J. Luthuli], July 21
  Janani Luwum,  Feb 17
  [Lydia, Dorcas & Phoebe], Jan. 27

 

M
  Macrina, July 19
  Margaret of Scotland, Nov. 16
  [Marianne of Molokai], April 15
  Mark the Evangelist, April 25
  Martin of Tours, Nov. 11
  Henry Martyn, Oct. 19
  The Martyrs of Japan, Feb. 5 [Feb. 6]
  The Martyrs of Lyons (Now Blandina and Her Companions), June 2
  Martyrs of New Guinea, Sept. 2
  [Martyrs of the Sudan], May 16
  The Martyrs of Uganda, June 3
  Mary the Virgin, Aug. 15
  Mary Magdalene, July 22
  Mary and Martha, July 29
  Matthew, Sept. 21
  Matthias, Feb. 24
  Frederick Denison Maurice, April 1
  [William Mayo, Charles Menninger & sons], March 6
  [Robert McDonald], Dec. 15
  [John Merbecke], Nov. 21
  [Thomas Merton], Dec. 10
  Cyril and Methodius, Feb. 14
  Michael and All Angels, Sept. 29
  Bernard Mizeki, June 18
  [Toribio de Mogrovejo], Aug. 23
  Monnica, May 4
  [Lottie Moon], Dec. 22
  [Emily Malbone Morgan], Feb. 26
  [Moses the Black], Aug. 28
  [John Raleigh Mott], Oct. 3
  [Henry Muhlenberg], Oct. 7
  William Augustus Muhlenberg, April 8
  [John Muir], April 22

 

N
  [Elie Naud], Sept. 7
  John Mason Neale, Aug. 7
  [John Henry Newman], Feb. 21
  Nicholas of Myra, Dec. 6
  Florence Nightingale, Aug. 12
  Ninian, Sept. 16

 

O
  David Pendleton Oakerhater, Sept. 1
  [Samson Occum], July 14

 

P
  The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 26
  [William Passavant], Jan. 3
  Patrick, March 17
  John Coleridge Patteson, Sept. 20
  [Vincent de Paul], Sept. 27
  [Frances Perkins], May 13
  Peter and Paul, June 29
  Perpetua and Her Companions, March 7
  Philip and James, May 1
  Philip, Deacon, Oct. 11
  [Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil], June 7
  Polycarp, Feb. 23
  [Martin de Porres], Aug. 23
  The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Feb. 2
  [Henry Purcell], July 28
  Edward Bouverie Pusey, Sept. 18

 

Q
  [Charles Quintard], Feb. 16

 

R
  [Pandita Mary Ramabai], April 5
  [Walter Rauschenbach], July 2
  Remigius, Oct. 1
  Richard of Chichester, April 3
  Nicholas Ridley, Oct. 16
  [The Righteous Gentiles], July 16
  [Jacob Riis], July 2
  [John Roberts], Feb. 25
  [Richard Rolle], Sept. 28
  Oscar Romero, March 24
  [Christina Rosetti], April 27
  [Andrei Rublev], Jan. 29

 

S
  [Paul Shinji Sasaki], Oct. 31
  Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Oct. 14
  Vida Dutton Scudder, Oct. 10
  Consecration of Samuel Seabury, Nov. 14
  George Augustus Selwyn, April 11
  Sergius, Sept. 25
  [Elizabeth Ann Seton], Jan. 4
  [Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftsbury], July 30
  [Samuel Shoemaker], Jan. 31
  Charles Simeon, Nov. 12
  Simon and Jude, Oct. 28
  [Nathan Söderblom], July 12
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman, July 20
  Stephen, Dec. 26
  [Maria Stewart], Dec. 17
  [Harriet Beecher Stowe], July 1
  [Hudson Stuck], April 22
  [Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy], March 8
  Henry Winter Syle, Aug. 27

 

T
  [Thomas Tallis], Nov. 21
  Jeremy Taylor, Aug. 13
  [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin], April 10
  William Temple, Nov. 6
  Teresa of Avila, Oct. 15
  Theodore of Tarsus, Sept. 19
  Thomas the Apostle, Dec. 21
  Thomas a Kempis, July 24
  [Tikhon], April 7
  Timothy and Titus, Jan. 26
  [Thomas Traherne], Sept. 27
  The Transfiguration, Aug. 6
  [Philip Lendel Tsen], Oct. 31
  [Lillian Trasher], Dec. 19
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman, July 20
  William Tyndale, Oct. 6

 

U
  Evelyn Underhill, June 15
  [Richard Upjohn], Dec. 16

 

V
  Vincent, Jan. 22
  The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, May 31

 

W
  [Isaac Watts], Nov. 26
  [Conrad Weiser], July 13
  John and Charles Wesley, March 3
  William White, July 17
  [George Whitefield], Nov. 15
  William Wilberforce, July 30
  Channing Moore Williams, Dec. 2
  [Roger Williams], Feb. 5
  Willibrord, Nov. 7
  [Catherine Winkworth], Aug. 7
  [Elizabeth Evelyn Wright], Feb. 28
  [Daniel Wu], April 6
  Wulfstan, Jan. 19
  [John Wyclif], Oct. 30

 

Z
  [Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf], May 10

 

Names in brackets indicate for trial use.

Web author: Charles Wohlers
Last Uptade: 12 June 2010
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