Saints · Today
Today, Thursday, October 29, 2026, Bless remembers St. Narcissus of Jerusalem. Below: yesterday’s saint and the next seven days.
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Apostles · Feast day October 28
Patron of desperate and hopeless causes
Simon the Zealot, who traded revolution for the kingdom, and Jude Thaddaeus, who asked at the Last Supper why the Lord…
Feast in the US calendar
The life of Sts. Simon and JudeToday ·
Bishop · Remembered on October 29
Bishop of Jerusalem said to have been over a hundred when he died — slandered in old age by perjurers, he withdrew to the…
In the US calendar Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
The life of St. Narcissus of JerusalemToday ·
Religious · Remembered on October 30
A Segovian wool merchant who buried his wife and all three children, failed in business, and at nearly forty was accepted…
In the US calendar Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
The life of St. Alphonsus RodríguezToday ·
Bishop · Remembered on October 31
A Swabian monk-schoolmaster who became bishop of Regensburg, reformed its monasteries, tutored the future emperor Henry II…
In the US calendar Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
The life of St. WolfgangToday ·
Priest and Martyr · Remembered on November 1
The apostle of Burgundy by ancient tradition — a missionary priest martyred at Dijon in the second century’s persecutions.
Today’s Mass All Saints
The life of St. Benignus of DijonToday ·
Bishop · Remembered on November 2
Reforming archbishop of Armagh who reknit the Irish church to Rome, restored the sacraments among a people grown wild in…
Today’s Mass The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
The life of St. MalachyToday ·
Religious · Remembered on November 3
Patron of racial harmony, barbers, and social justice
Son of a Spanish knight and a freed Black woman of Lima, apprenticed to a barber-surgeon, received by the Dominicans as a…
In the US calendar Tuesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
The life of St. Martin de PorresToday ·
Bishop · Feast day November 4
Are you in charge of a parish? If so, do not neglect the parish of your own soul.
Memorial in the US calendar
The life of St. Charles BorromeoToday ·
Parents of John the Baptist · Remembered on November 5
The aged priest struck silent for doubting the angel, whose tongue was loosed at his son’s naming into the Benedictus the…
In the US calendar Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
The life of Sts. Zechariah and ElizabethToday ·
Hermit · Remembered on November 6
Patron of prisoners and captives
A Frankish noble converted by Remigius, who refused a bishopric for a forest hermitage near Limoges.
In the US calendar Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
The life of St. Leonard of NoblacToday ·
Bishop · Remembered on November 7
Patron of the Netherlands
A Northumbrian monk, first of the great English missionaries to the continent, consecrated at Rome as archbishop of the…
In the US calendar Saturday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
The life of St. WillibrordToday ·
Martyrs · Remembered on November 8
Patron of stonemasons and sculptors
Four (or five) stone-carvers of the Pannonian quarries who worked marvels for Diocletian but would not carve an idol of…
Today’s Mass Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
The life of Four Crowned MartyrsToday ·
Martyr · Remembered on November 9
A young recruit — ‘Tiron’ — of the imperial legions in Pontus who declared himself a Christian, burned the temple of the…
Today’s Mass Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
The life of St. Theodore TironToday ·
Pope and Doctor of the Church · Feast day November 10
Our sharing in the body and blood of Christ has no other purpose than to make us become what we receive.
Memorial in the US calendar
The life of St. Leo the GreatToday ·
Bishop · Feast day November 11
Patron of soldiers and beggars
Lord, if I am still necessary to thy people, I do not refuse the toil: thy will be done.
Memorial in the US calendar
The life of St. Martin of ToursToday ·
Bishop and Martyr · Feast day November 12
A merchant’s son of Volodymyr who became a Basilian monk at Vilnius, taking the name Josaphat, and rose to be archbishop of…
Memorial in the US calendar
The life of St. JosaphatTuesday
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