December Saints
and Catholic Feasts Calendar
 

December 1: St. Elogious, Eloy, bishop, skillful metal-smith, friend of the poor and horses - December 1 Saints of the Day, events of December 1
December 2: St. Bibiana, Viviana, the virgin martyr who refused prostitution- Blessed Rafal Chylinski, Cavalry Officer who became a Franciscan priest and a saint - December 2 Saints of the Day, events of December 2
December 3: St. Francis Xavier, the first Jesuit missionary in India and Japan, raised 12 people from the dead - December 3 Saints of the Day.
December 4: St. Barbara,  virgin martyr and Santeria - St. Giovanni Calabria, founder of homes for abandoned adolescents all over  Italy - Blessed Francis Galvez, Spanish Franciscan missionary of Manila and Japan - Dec.4 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.4
December 5: St. Sabas, Sabbas, Patriarchal Abbot in Palestine - December 5 Saints of the Day, events of December
December 6: St. Nicholas of Myra, Santa Claus of Christmas - Blessed Adolph Kolping, the Kolping Society for the young workers all over the world - Dec.6 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.6
December 7: St. Ambrose of Milan, the Governor of Milan who became a Bishop and influenced the conversion of St. Augustine - December 7 Saints of the Day, events of Dec. 7
December 8: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary - Dec.8 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.8
December 9: St. Juan Diego, the layman married Mexican Indian to whom Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared - December 9 Saints of the Day, events of December 9
December 10: Translation of the Holy House of Loreto - St. Eulalia of Merida, the virgin martyred - Dec.10 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.10
December 11: St. Damasus I, the Pope who gave us the Canon, the books that make the Bible - St. Maria Maravillas de Jesus, the Marquise from Madrid who founded many Carmelite houses, even in India - Dec.11 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.11
December 12: Our Lady of Guadalupe - Jeanne Frances de Chantal, Order of the Visitation of Our Lady - December 12 Saints of the Day, events of December 12
December 13: St. Lucy of Syracuse, Patron of Blindness, tortured in so many ways for defending her chastity - December 13 Saints of the Day, events of December 13
December 14: St. John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church of Mystical Theology, Carmelite reformer with St. Teresa - December 14 Saints of the Day, events of December 14
December 15: Blessed Mary Frances Schervier , the Sisters of the Poor of Saint Francis - St. Mary Di Rosa, December 15 Saints of the Day, events of December 15
December 16: St. Adelaide Twice Queen who helped the poor - Blessed Honoratus Kozminskik, prolific writer - December 16 Saints of the Day, events of December 16
December 17: St. Jose Manyanet y Vives, Family temple of Gaudi in Barcelona,- St. Lazarus, resurrected by Jesus, patron of France - Dec.17 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.17
December 18: Saint Gatian, no illnesses which he did not cure - Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - December 18 Saints of the Day, events of December 18
December 19: Pope St. Anastasius I, fought the heresies of Origen and Donatism - Blessed Pope Urban V, chosen by chance - Dec.19 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.19
December 20: St. Dominic of Silos, Benedictine Abbot of the monastery of Silos in Burgos, reformer and miracle worker - Dec.20 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.20
December 21: St. Peter Canisius, the Jesuit considered the “second apostle of Germany”, worker of the Counter-Reform -Dec.21 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.21
December 22: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, founded 67 institutions for the poor and the sick, the first US citizen to be canonized - Dec.22 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.22
December 23: St. Servulus, crippled from birth - St. John of Kanty, patron of Poland and Lithuania - December 23 Saints of the Day, events of December 23
December 24: Vigil of Christmas at Greccio - St. Charbel Makhlouf, the Lebanese hermit, who levitated in his prayers with uncorrupted bleeding body - December 24 Saints of the Day, events of December 24
December 25: Solemnity of Christmas Day - December 25 Saints of the Day, events of December 25
December 26: St. Stephen, first Deacon and the first martyr after Christ - December 26 Saints of the Day, events if December 26
December 27: St. John the Apostle, the Evangelist, the Divine, December 27 Saints of the Day, events of December 27
December 28: Feast of the Holy Innocents, Anti-Abortion Day, December 28 Saints of the Day, events of December 28
December 29: St. Thomas Becket, Chancellor of England, Archbishop of Canterbury, martyred by his loyalty to the Church - Dec.29 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.29
December 30: Our Lady of Bethlehem - St. Egwin of Worcester, a Benedictine bishop, monasteries and many miracles - Dec.30 Saints of the Day, events of Dec.30
December 31: The New Year's Eve - The Eve or Vigil of the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God - Circumcision of Jesus - Pope St. Sylvester I, Edict of Milan, the catacombs, building of the great basilicas, Emperor Constantine - December 31 Saints of the Day, events of December 31