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title: "St. Barnabas: Feast Day June 11 · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/saints/st-barnabas/
description: "St. Barnabas, Apostle, patron of Cyprus and peacemakers. Feast day June 11. Read their life in Bless."
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Apostle · Feast day June 11

# St. Barnabas

The feast day of St. Barnabas is June 11, a memorial in the US Catholic calendar. Traditionally invoked as patron of Cyprus and peacemakers.

|  |  |
|---|---|
| Feast day | [June 11](https://blessbible.app/saints/june/#11) |
| In the US calendar | Memorial |
| Title | Apostle |
| Patron of | [Cyprus](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#cyprus), [peacemakers](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#peacemakers) |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | [Friday, June 11, 2027](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-barnabas/#calendar) |

## Life

A Levite of Cyprus named Joseph, whom the apostles renamed Barnabas — ‘son of encouragement’ — for good reason: he sold his field for the common purse, vouched for the ex-persecutor Saul when all Jerusalem feared him, and fetched him from Tarsus to teach at Antioch.

Together they carried famine relief, then the Gospel through Cyprus and Asia Minor. When they quarreled over young Mark, Barnabas took the failure and remade him — the Church later got a Gospel out of that patience. Tradition returns him to Cyprus and a martyr’s death.

## Patron of

Tradition invokes St. Barnabas as patron of Cyprus and peacemakers.

[Cyprus](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#cyprus) [Peacemakers](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/#peacemakers)

### Saints with the same patronage

- [St. Elizabeth of Portugal](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-elizabeth-of-portugal/) peacemakers · July 4

Patronages are traditional, not an official list. [All patron saints in Bless, A to Z](https://blessbible.app/patron-saints/).

## In the calendar

The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Barnabas. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.

| Date | In the US calendar | Color | Mass readings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Friday, June 11, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/06/11/) | St. Barnabas, Apostle (Memorial) | Red | Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3 · Psalm 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6 · Philippians 2:15d, 16a · Matthew 5:27-32 |
| [Sunday, June 11, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/06/11/) | The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity | White | Proverbs 8:22-31 · Psalm 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 · Romans 5:1-5 · Cf. Revelation 1:8 · John 16:12-15 |

Readings

Later citations were computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

[June 10 St. Landericus of Paris](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-landericus-of-paris/) [June 12 St. John of Sahagún](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-sahagun/)

[All the saints of June](https://blessbible.app/saints/june/) [Born on June 11?](https://blessbible.app/saints/birthday/#06-11) [A saint for every day](https://blessbible.app/saints/)

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St. Barnabas

Feast day June 11

On this page

1. [Life](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-barnabas/#life)
2. [Patron of](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-barnabas/#patron)
3. [In the calendar](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-barnabas/#calendar)

In the app

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