St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop and Poet, 389 St. Kentigern (Mungo), Bishop and Missionary, 603 Martin Luther King, Jnr., Renewer of Society and Martyr, 1968 The Confession of St. Peter Richard Rolle of Hampole, Mystic and Poet, 1349 The Conversion of St. Paul St. Timothy and St. Titus [and Silas], Companions of St. Paul Lydia, Dorcas and Phoebe, Disciples St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Philosopher and Hymn Writer, 1274 [LBW 7 March] St. Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 Anskar (Ansgar), Archbishop of Hamburg, and Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 The Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Thomas Bray, Priest, Educationalist and Missionary, 1730 Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, and Martyr, 1977 Martin Luther, Renewer of the Church and Hymn Writer, 1546 [CW 31 October] St. Matthias, Apostle [CW 14 May] George Herbert, Priest and Poet, 1633 [LBW 1 March] St. David, Bishop and Patron of Wales, c.601 John and Charles Wesley, Evangelists and Hymn Writers, 1791 and 1788 [CW 24 May] Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Priest and Poet, 1929 St. Patrick, Bishop, Missionary and Patron of Ireland, c.460 St. Joseph of Nazareth, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and Reformation Martyr, 1556 John Donne, Priest and Poet, 1631 Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, Novelist and Teacher of the Faith, 1872 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran Pastor, Teacher, Theologian, Poet and Martyr, 1945 William Law, Priest and Spiritual Writer, 1761 St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Teacher, 1109 St. George, Martyr and Patron of England, c.304 St. Mark, Evangelist Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 St. Catherine of Siena, Teacher, 1380 St. Philip and St. James, Apostles Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era - see Reformation Day, October 51 Alcuin of York, Deacon, Abbot of Tours, Teacher and Poet, 804 St. Helena, Protectress of Holy Places, 330 The Venerable Bede, Scholar and Poet, 735 The Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth St. Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 St. Boniface (Wynfrith), Archbishop of Mainz, Missionary to Germany, and Martyr, 754 St. Columba, Abbot of Iona, and Missionary, 597 [Aidan, 651; Bede, 695; Confessors] St. Barnabas, Apostle Richard Baxter, Hymn Writer, 1691 Evelyn Underhill, Poet and Spiritual Writer, 1941 St. Alban, First Martyr of England, c.250 The Birth of St. John the Baptist Presentation of the Augsburg Confession, 1530/Philipp Melanchthon, Renewer of the Church and Scholar, 1560 St. Peter and St. Paul, Apostles Catherine Winkworth, 1878 [John Mason Neale, 1866]; Hymn Writers St. Thomas, Apostle [LBW 21 December] Thomas More, Scholar and Reformation Martyr, 1535 Jan Hus, Scholar and Martyr, 1415 St. Benedict of Nursia, Abbot of Monte Cassino and Patron of Europe, c.550 John Keble, Priest, Poet and Renewer of the Church, 1866 St. Mary Magdalene St. Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, and Mystic, 1373 St. James, Apostle Anne and Joachim, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Johann Sebastian Bach, 1750; Heinrich Schutz, 1672; George Frederick Handel, 1759; Musicians Mary, Martha and Lazarus of Bethany, Companions of our Lord John Mason Neale, Priest and Hymn Writer, 1866 St. Laurence, Deacon at Rome, and Martyr, 258 St. Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Novelist and Hymn Writer, 1890 Jeremy Taylor, Bishop and Teacher, 1667 The Blessed Virgin Mary St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot and Teacher, 1153 St. Bartholomew, Apostle St. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop and Teacher, 430 The Beheading of St. John the Baptist John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688 [LBW 31 August] Nikolai Grundtvig, Bishop, Renewer of the Church and Hymn Writer, 1872 St. Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, and Teacher, 604 The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary Holy Cross Day Dag Hammarskjold, Peacemaker, 1961 St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist St. Michael and All Angels St. Jerome, Translator and Teacher of the Faith, 420 Dedication of a Church if date unknown St. Francis of Assisi, Friar and Deacon, 1226 William Tyndale, Translator, Teacher and Reformation Martyr, 1536 Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Missionary to America, 1787 Thomas Traherne, Priest and Poet, 1674 Edith Cavell, Nurse, 1915 St. Teresa of Avila, Teacher and Poet, 1582 [LBW 14 December] St. Luke, Evangelist and Physician Henry Martyn, Translator and Missionary in India and Persia, 1812 Alfred, King of the West Saxons, and Scholar, 899 Philipp Nicolai, 1608; Johann Heermann, 1647; Paul Gerhardt, 1676; Hymn Writers St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles Reformation Day - Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era [CW Martin Luther, Reformer and Hymn Writer, 1546] Saints and Martyrs of a Nation (of England and Wales) St. Martin of Tours, Bishop, c.397 Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 St. Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist and Reformer of the Church, 1093 Elizabeth of Hungary, Princess of Thuringia, and Philanthropist, 1231 St. Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Mechtild of Magdeburg, Mystic, 1280 St. Cecilia, Martyr at Rome and Patron of Music, c.230 Isaac Watts, Hymn Writer, 1748 St. Andrew, Apostle and Patron of Scotland John of Damascus, Theologian and Hymn Writer, c.749 St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher of the Faith and Hymn Writer, c.397 The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist and Scholar, 1784 St. John of the Cross, Poet and Teacher, 1591 Christmas Eve St. Stephen, Deacon and First Martyr St. John, Apostle and Evangelist The Holy Innocents

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