August Saints
and Catholic Feasts Calendar

Assumption Solemnity, August 15

August 1: Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church, the Redemptorists, Glories of Mary - August 1 Saints of the Day
August 2: Saint Peter Julian Eymund, a Marist, founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament - August 2 Saints of the Day
August 3: Saint Nicodemus of John 3, Born Again - Saint Lydia of Acts 16, children should be baptized - August 3 Saints of the Day
August 4: Saint John Vianney and St. Philomena, a poor student who became a rural priest and changed the world - August 4 Saints of the Day
August 5: Dedication of St. Mary Major Basilica, Our Lady of the Snows - August 5 Saints of the Day
August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord - August 6 Saints of the Day
August 7: Saint Cajetan, founded a hospital for incurables and the Theatines to reform the Church before Luther - August 7 Saints of the Day
August 8: Saint Dominic of Guzman, the Dominicans, Father of the Friars, the Rosary, Albiguensians - August 8 Saints of the Day
August 9: Saint Edith Stein, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Jewish Carmelite burned at Auschwitz, writer of 17 volumes - August 9 Saints of the Day
August 10: Saint Lawrence, martyred on a grill, from Huesca, Aragon, Spain, Deacon of Rome, "keeper of the treasures of the church" - August 10 Saints of the Day
August 11: Saint Clare of Assisi, Order of Poor Ladies , Poor Clares - Saint Philomena, known only for the many miracles after death - August 11 Saints of the Day
August 12: Blessed Karl Leisner, a Catholic German imprisoned by Hitler - August 12 Saints of the Day
August 13: Sts. Pontian and Hippolytus, Pope and Anti-Pope, both Saints! martyred in the same place and died reconciled - August 13 Saints of the Day
August 14: Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Apostle of Consecration to Mary, burned in Auschwitz instead of a young man with children - August 14 Saints of the Day
August 15: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mary Queen - August 15 Saints of the Day
August 16: Saint Roch, orn miraculously like the Baptist, with many miracles - King Saint Stephen of Hungary - August 16 Saints of the Day
August 17: St. Joan of the Cross, a greedy woman who end up dedicated to take care of the poor - Saint Clare of Montefalco, Franciscan and Augustinian - August 17 Saints of the Day
August 18: Saint Helen Empress, found the True Cross - Saint Jane Frances of Chantal, French Baroness, wife, mother of 6, widow, nun and founder of a religious community - August 18 Saints of the Day
August 19: Saint John Eudes, Champion of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, improvement of Seminaries and penitent women - August 19 Saints of the Day
August 20: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the “man of the twelfth century", Doctor of the Church, Virgin Mary, Cistercians, Albigensianism - August 20 Saints of the Day
August 21: Feast of Our Lady of Knock, Patroness of Ireland - Pope Saint Pius X, Communion, the liturgy - Gregorian chant - August 21 Saints of the Day
August 22: Feasts of Queenship of Mary and Immaculate Heart of Mary - August 22 Saints of the Day
August 23: Saint Rose of Lima, first Saint of America, sufferings and mortifications at home - August 23 Saints of the Day
August 24: Saint Bartholomew, the Apostle, Nathanael - August 24 Saints of the Day
August 25: Saint Louis IX the most Christian King of France - St. Joseph de Calasanz, founder of the Scolopi or Piarists school teachers - August 25 Saints of the Day
August 26: Saint Zephyrinus Pope, the principal defender of Christ’s divinity - August 26 Saints of the Day
August 27: Saint Monica, mother of St. Augustine and spouse of a pagan also converted after too many prayers and tears - August 27 Saints of the Day
August 28: Saint Augustine of Hippo, Doctor of Grace, converted by the prayers of his mother, Manichaeism, Donatism, Pelagianism - August 28 Saints of the Day
August 29: Beheading of John the Baptist, August 29 Saints of the Day
August 30: Blessed Jeanne Jugan, A poor French-woman who founded the Little Sisters of the Poor - August 30 Saints of the Day
August 31: Saint Raymond Nonnatus, a "non-born", "non-natus" who choose Virgin Mary as his Mother and became a Mercedarian and Cardinal - August 31 Saints of the Day