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Saint Maximus the Confessor
Taught that Christ has a human will as well as a divine one, and died for it in exile
- Honoured as
- Father of the Church
- Western calendar
- 13 August
- Orthodox calendar
- 21 January (3 February on the old calendar)
Maximus was first secretary to the emperor Heraclius, and he left the court to become a monk at Chrysopolis across the Bosphorus, where the brothers chose him as their abbot. When an imperial edict required all to confess only one will in Christ, he taught that the Son of God took a full human nature, and so a human will as well as a divine, and in 649 he stood with Pope Martin I at the Lateran Council that condemned the one-will teaching. Arrested by Constans II, he had his tongue cut out and his right hand cut off, and he died in exile in 662, the last Father of the Church whom Catholics and Orthodox both acknowledge.
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Every saint here, by feast day
January
- 2 Saint Seraphim of Sarov
- 2 Saint Basil the Great
- 2 Saint Gregory of Nazianzus
- 3 Saint Genevieve
- 4 Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
- 5 Saint John Neumann
- 5 Saint Edward the Confessor
- 6 Saint André Bessette
- 7 Saint Raymond of Peñafort
- 8 Saint George the Chozebite
- 10 Saint Gregory of Nyssa
- 11 Saint Theodosius the Cenobiarch
- 12 Saint Tatiana of Rome
- 13 Saint Hilary of Poitiers
- 14 Saint Nina of Georgia
- 16 Saint Honoratus of Arles
- 17 Saint Anthony the Great
- 18 Saint Margaret of Hungary
- 19 Saint Mark of Ephesus
- 19 Saint Macarius the Great
- 20 Saint Sebastian
- 21 Saint Agnes
- 22 Saint Vincent of Saragossa
- 23 Saint Marianne Cope
- 24 Saint Francis de Sales
- 24 Saint Xenia of Petersburg
- 26 Saint Timothy
- 26 Saint Titus
- 28 Saint Thomas Aquinas
- 28 Saint Isaac the Syrian
- 29 Saint Aphraates
- 31 Saint John Bosco
February
- 1 Saint Brigid of Kildare
- 2 Saint Catherine de' Ricci
- 3 Saint Blaise
- 5 Saint Agatha
- 7 Saint Luke of Hellas
- 8 Saint Josephine Bakhita
- 9 Saint Apollonia
- 10 Saint Scholastica
- 12 Saint Meletius of Antioch
- 13 Saint Martinian
- 14 Saint Valentine
- 14 Saints Cyril and Methodius
- 15 Saint Onesimus
- 16 Saint Pamphilus of Caesarea
- 17 The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order
- 18 Saint Tarasius of Constantinople
- 20 Saints Francisco and Jacinta Marto
- 20 Saint Leo of Catania
- 21 Saint Peter Damian
- 22 Saint Margaret of Cortona
- 23 Saint Polycarp
- 26 Saint Porphyrius of Gaza
- 27 Saint Raphael of Brooklyn
- 27 Saint Gregory of Narek
- 28 Saints Marana and Kyra
March
- 1 Saint David of Wales
- 2 Saint Chad
- 3 Saint Katharine Drexel
- 4 Saint Casimir
- 5 Saint Gerasimus of the Jordan
- 6 Saint Colette
- 7 Saint Perpetua
- 7 Saint Felicity
- 8 Saint John of God
- 9 Saint Dominic Savio
- 9 Saint Frances of Rome
- 10 Saint John Ogilvie
- 11 Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem
- 12 Saint Symeon the New Theologian
- 13 Saint Leander of Seville
- 15 Saint Louise de Marillac
- 16 Saint Aristobulus
- 17 Saint Patrick
- 17 Saint Gertrude of Nivelles
- 18 Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
- 19 Saint Joseph
- 20 Saint Cuthbert
- 20 Saint Photini, the Samaritan Woman
- 21 Saint Nicholas of Flüe
- 22 Saint Basil of Ancyra
- 23 Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo
- 24 Saint Óscar Romero
- 25 Saint Dismas, the Good Thief
- 28 Saint Stephen Harding
- 29 Saint Mark of Arethusa
- 30 Saint John Climacus
- 31 Saint Innocent of Alaska
April
- 1 Saint Mary of Egypt
- 3 Saint Richard of Chichester
- 4 Saint Isidore of Seville
- 4 Saint Benedict the Moor
- 5 Saint Vincent Ferrer
- 6 Saint Peter of Verona
- 7 Saint Tikhon of Moscow
- 9 Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica
- 10 Saint Magdalene of Canossa
- 11 Saint Gemma Galgani
- 11 Saint Stanislaus of Kraków
- 12 Saint Joseph Moscati
- 13 Saints Carpus, Papylus and Agathonica
- 13 Saint Hermenegild
- 15 Saint Damien of Molokai
- 16 Saint Bernadette
- 16 Saint Benedict Joseph Labre
- 16 Saint Drogo
- 17 Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
- 18 Saint John, Disciple of Gregory of Decapolis
- 19 Saint Expeditus
- 20 Saint Zacchaeus
- 21 Saint Anselm of Canterbury
- 22 Saint Theodore of Sykeon
- 23 Saint George
- 24 Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
- 24 Saint Salome
- 25 Saint Mark the Evangelist
- 26 Saint Stephen of Perm
- 27 Saint Simeon of Jerusalem
- 28 Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
- 28 Saint Louis de Montfort
- 29 Saint Catherine of Siena
May
- 1 Saint Peregrine Laziosi
- 2 Saint Athanasius of Alexandria
- 2 Saint Matrona of Moscow
- 3 Saint James the Less
- 3 Saint Philip the Apostle
- 4 Saint Florian
- 5 Saint Irene the Great Martyr
- 7 Saint Alexis Toth
- 12 Saint Pancras
- 14 Saint Matthias the Apostle
- 15 Saint Isidore the Farmer
- 16 Saint Brendan the Navigator
- 17 Saint Paschal Baylon
- 18 Saint John I, Pope
- 19 Saint Demetrius Donskoy
- 20 Saint Lydia
- 20 Saint Bernardine of Siena
- 21 Saint Constantine the Great
- 22 Saint Rita of Cascia
- 25 Saint Bede the Venerable
- 26 Saint Philip Neri
- 28 Saint Germain of Paris
- 29 Saint Paul VI
- 30 Saint Dymphna
- 30 Saint Joan of Arc
- 30 Saint Hubert
- 30 Saint Ferdinand III of Castile
- 31 Saint Hermias of Comana
June
- 1 Saint Justin Martyr
- 2 Saint Erasmus
- 3 Saint Kevin of Glendalough
- 5 Saint Boniface
- 6 Saint Norbert
- 7 Saint Daniel of Sketis
- 8 Saint Ephraim of Antioch
- 9 Saint Columba of Iona
- 9 Saint Ephrem the Syrian
- 10 Saint John of Tobolsk
- 11 Saint Barnabas the Apostle
- 11 Saint Luke of Crimea
- 12 Saint Onuphrius
- 13 Saint Anthony of Padua
- 15 Saint Vitus
- 16 Saint Tikhon of Amathus
- 18 Saint Leontius of Tripoli
- 20 Saint Methodius of Olympus
- 21 Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
- 22 Saint Thomas More
- 22 Saint John Fisher
- 22 Saint Paulinus of Nola
- 23 Saint Etheldreda of Ely
- 24 Saint John the Baptist
- 25 Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom
- 26 Saint Josemaría Escrivá
- 27 Saint Cyril of Alexandria
- 28 Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
- 29 Saint Peter the Apostle
- 29 Saint Paul the Apostle
- 30 The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
July
- 1 Saint Aaron
- 2 Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco
- 3 Saint Thomas the Apostle
- 4 Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati
- 4 Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
- 5 Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria
- 6 Saint Maria Goretti
- 8 Saints Aquila and Priscilla
- 8 Saint Procopius
- 9 Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions
- 10 Saint Anthony of the Kiev Caves
- 11 Saint Benedict
- 11 Saint Olga of Kiev
- 12 Saint Veronica
- 12 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
- 12 Saints Louis and Zélie Martin
- 13 Saint Henry II
- 14 Saint Camillus de Lellis
- 15 Saint Bonaventure
- 15 Saint Vladimir of Kiev
- 16 Saint Athenogenes
- 17 Saint Alexis, the Man of God
- 18 Saint Elizabeth the New Martyr
- 19 Saint Macrina the Younger
- 20 Saint Margaret of Antioch
- 20 Saint Elijah the Prophet
- 21 Saint Lawrence of Brindisi
- 22 Saint Mary Magdalene
- 23 Saint Bridget of Sweden
- 23 Saint John Cassian
- 24 Saint Charbel Makhlouf
- 24 Saints Boris and Gleb
- 25 Saint Christopher
- 25 Saint James the Greater
- 26 Saint Anne
- 26 Saint Joachim
- 26 Saint Paraskevi of Rome
- 26 Saint Jacob Netsvetov of Alaska
- 27 Saint Panteleimon
- 27 Saint Simeon the Stylite
- 29 Saint Lazarus
- 29 Saint Martha
- 29 Saint Olaf of Norway
- 29 Saint Mary of Bethany
- 31 Saint Ignatius of Loyola
August
- 1 Saint Alphonsus Liguori
- 2 Saint Peter Julian Eymard
- 4 Saint John Vianney
- 5 Saint Oswald of Northumbria
- 8 Saint Dominic
- 9 Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
- 10 Saint Lawrence
- 11 Saint Clare of Assisi
- 12 Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
- 13 Saint Philomena
- 13 Saint Maximus the Confessor
- 13 Saint John Berchmans
- 14 Saint Maximilian Kolbe
- 15 Saint Stanislaus Kostka
- 15 Saint Tarcisius
- 16 Saint Roch
- 17 Saint Myron of Cyzicus
- 17 Saint Mamas
- 18 Saint Helena
- 19 Saint John Eudes
- 20 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- 21 Saint Pius X
- 23 Saint Rose of Lima
- 24 Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
- 25 Saint Louis IX, King of France
- 25 Saint Genesius
- 27 Saint Monica
- 28 Saint Augustine of Hippo
- 28 Saint Moses the Black
- 29 Saint Jeanne Jugan
- 30 Saint Fiacre
- 31 Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne
- 31 Saint Nicodemus
- 31 Saint Joseph of Arimathea
September
- 1 Saint Joshua
- 3 Saint Gregory the Great
- 3 Saint Phoebe
- 4 Saint Moses the Prophet
- 5 Saint Teresa of Calcutta
- 6 Saint Zechariah the Prophet
- 8 Saints Adrian and Natalia
- 8 Saint Thomas of Villanova
- 9 Saint Peter Claver
- 10 Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
- 11 Saint Theodora of Alexandria
- 12 Saint Autonomus
- 13 Saint John Chrysostom
- 14 Saint Albert of Jerusalem
- 15 Saint Niketas the Goth
- 16 Saint Cyprian of Carthage
- 17 Saint Sophia
- 17 Saint Hildegard of Bingen
- 17 Saint Robert Bellarmine
- 18 Saint Joseph of Cupertino
- 19 Saint Januarius
- 20 Saint Andrew Kim Taegon
- 21 Saint Matthew the Apostle
- 22 Saint Maurice
- 23 Saint Elizabeth
- 23 Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
- 24 Saint Thecla
- 25 Saint Sergius of Radonezh
- 26 Saints Cosmas and Damian
- 27 Saint Vincent de Paul
- 28 Saint Wenceslaus
- 29 Saint Michael the Archangel
- 29 Saint Raphael the Archangel
- 29 Saint Gabriel the Archangel
- 30 Saint Jerome
October
- 1 Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
- 2 Saints Cyprian and Justina
- 3 Saint Dionysius the Areopagite
- 4 Saint Francis of Assisi
- 5 Saint Faustina Kowalska
- 7 Saints Sergius and Bacchus
- 9 Saint Denis
- 10 Saint Ambrose of Optina
- 11 Saint John XXIII
- 12 Saint Carlo Acutis
- 14 Saint Callistus I
- 15 Saint Teresa of Ávila
- 16 Saint Longinus
- 16 Saint Gerard Majella
- 16 Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
- 16 Saint Hedwig of Silesia
- 17 Saint Ignatius of Antioch
- 18 Saint Luke the Evangelist
- 19 Saint Isaac Jogues
- 19 Saint Paul of the Cross
- 20 Saint Artemius
- 21 Saint Hilarion
- 22 Saint John Paul II
- 23 Saint John of Capistrano
- 24 Saint Anthony Mary Claret
- 25 Saints Crispin and Crispinian
- 27 Saint Nestor of Thessalonica
- 28 Saint Jude the Apostle
- 28 Saint Simon the Zealot
November
- 2 Saint Marcian of Cyrrhus
- 3 Saint Martin de Porres
- 4 Saint Charles Borromeo
- 6 Saint Leonard of Noblac
- 7 Saint Willibrord
- 9 Saint Nektarios of Aegina
- 10 Saint Leo the Great
- 11 Saint Martin of Tours
- 12 Saint Josaphat
- 14 Saint Gregory Palamas
- 15 Saint Albert the Great
- 16 Saint Margaret of Scotland
- 16 Saint Gertrude the Great
- 17 Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
- 17 Saint Hilda of Whitby
- 18 Saint Romanus of Antioch
- 19 Saint Obadiah the Prophet
- 20 Saint José Sánchez del Río
- 22 Saint Cecilia
- 22 Saint Philemon
- 23 Saint Alexander Nevsky
- 23 Saint Clement of Rome
- 25 Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- 28 Saint Stephen the Younger
- 30 Saint Andrew the Apostle
December
- 1 Saint Eligius
- 2 Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
- 3 Saint Francis Xavier
- 4 Saint Barbara
- 4 Saint John of Damascus
- 6 Saint Nicholas of Myra
- 7 Saint Ambrose
- 8 Saints Sosthenes, Apollos and Companions
- 9 Saint Juan Diego
- 10 Saint Eulalia of Mérida
- 11 Saint Damasus I
- 12 Saint Spyridon
- 13 Saint Lucy
- 13 Saint Herman of Alaska
- 14 Saint John of the Cross
- 15 Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli
- 16 Saint Haggai the Prophet
- 20 Saint John of Kronstadt
- 21 Saint Peter Canisius
- 22 Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
- 23 Saint John of Kanty
- 25 Saint Anastasia
- 25 Saint Eugenia of Rome
- 26 Saint Stephen
- 27 Saint John the Apostle
- 28 The Holy Innocents
- 29 Saint Thomas Becket
- 30 Saint Anysia of Thessalonica
- 31 Saint Catherine Labouré
Dias festivos, dois calendários e santos padroeiros
O dia festivo de um santo é o dia de cada ano em que a Igreja recorda esse santo no seu culto e, para a maioria dos santos, é o dia em que morreram. Estes estão entre os dias mais antigos do ano cristão: depois da Páscoa e do Pentecostes, e do Natal e da Epifania no século IV, as festas seguintes que a Igreja celebrou foram as dos apóstolos e dos mártires.
Muitos santos têm duas datas no localizador porque as Igrejas Ocidental e Ortodoxa construíram os seus calendários separadamente ao longo de muitos séculos. Por vezes, recordam o mesmo santo em dias diferentes: o Ocidente celebra São Judas com São Simão a 28 de outubro, enquanto os Ortodoxos celebram-no a 19 de junho. Algumas igrejas ortodoxas, como a Igreja Russa, também seguem ainda o antigo calendário juliano, que está agora treze dias atrasado em relação ao que temos nas nossas paredes, pelo que o seu 6 de dezembro cai no nosso 19 de dezembro. Quando isso acontece, o localizador apresenta ambas as datas.
Um santo padroeiro é um santo a quem a Igreja recorre para pedir ajuda num determinado lugar, trabalho ou necessidade, “um intercessor especial junto de Deus e o advogado adequado”, como diz a antiga Enciclopédia Católica. Alguns patronatos foram declarados por um papa, como quando Pio IX nomeou São José padroeiro de toda a Igreja em 1870; a maioria surgiu de uma longa tradição, como acontece com Santo António e as coisas que perdemos.
Escolhemos os primeiros duzentos santos com base no que as pessoas mais pesquisam, por nome, por necessidade e por data, e adicionámos os santos que os cristãos ortodoxos procuram, bem como os apóstolos. Depois, adicionámos um santo para cada um dos 138 dias que ainda não tinham nenhum, para que todos os dias do ano tenham agora pelo menos um, e mais quarenta dos santos que as pessoas procuram: 378 entradas no total. Todos os factos numa entrada provêm de uma fonte que verificámos e que indicamos abaixo: a Enciclopédia Católica, as vidas dos santos da Igreja Ortodoxa na América, o Vatican News e os próprios documentos da Santa Sé. Quando a história de um santo nos chega principalmente através de lendas, a entrada menciona esse facto.