MyHolyHero

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Calendar of holy heroes

Every month, the days on which we remember the men and women of MyHolyHero: anniversaries of death and the feast days of the Blesseds.

The Church has always remembered holy men and women on the day of their death, their dies natalis or “birthday into heaven”. This calendar lists that anniversary for every hero on MyHolyHero whose full date of death is known and, for the Blesseds, the feast day kept in the calendars where their cult is authorised.

A Servant of God or a Venerable has no liturgical feast, and the witnesses of faith have no open cause; for them the anniversary of death is simply a good day to remember them in private prayer. Where only the year of death is recorded, the person is not listed here.

January

  1. 21Alphonsus 'Alfie' LambeServant of GodAnniversary of death (1959)

February

  1. 1Cardinal John Francis D'AltonNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1963)
  2. 2Ellen Organ, 'Little Nellie of Holy God'No Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1908)
  3. 10Gilberte DegeimbreNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (2015)
  4. 19Blessed John Sullivan, S.J.BlessedAnniversary of death (1933)

March

  1. 18Canon James O'NeillNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1922)
  2. 18Venerable Léon Papin-DupontVenerableAnniversary of death (1876)
  3. 31Reggie DonnellyNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (2018)

April

  1. 15Father Henry Kowalczyk, SHMNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (2020)
  2. 16Sister Clare Theresa CrockettServant of GodAnniversary of death (2016)
  3. 18Blessed Marie of the Incarnation (Barbe Acarie), O.C.D.BlessedFeast day · anniversary of death (1618)
  4. 24Judy Coyne (Dame Judy Coyne)No Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (2002)
  5. 26Venerable Nano Nagle (Honora Nagle)VenerableAnniversary of death (1784)
  6. 27Jim BrowneNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (2024)

May

  1. 1Guido SchafferVenerableAnniversary of death (2009)
  2. 5Blessed Edmund Ignatius RiceBlessedFeast day
  3. 8Blessed John Sullivan, S.J.BlessedFeast day
  4. 12Edel Mary QuinnVenerableAnniversary of death (1944)
  5. 15Daniel O'ConnellNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1847)

June

  1. 3Patrick Joseph Peyton, C.S.C.VenerableAnniversary of death (1992)
  2. 4Father Patrick Murray CSsRNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1959)
  3. 7Matthew 'Matt' TalbotVenerableAnniversary of death (1925)
  4. 14Gilbert Keith ChestertonNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1936)

July

  1. 8Servant of God Sister Marie of St Peter and of the Holy Family, O.C.D.Servant of GodAnniversary of death (1848)
  2. 9Father Noel FitzpatrickNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1972)
  3. 20Pope Leo XIIINo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1903)
  4. 26Blessed Maria Pierina De MicheliBlessedFeast day · anniversary of death (1945)
  5. 30Blessed Solanus Casey (Bernard Francis Casey, O.F.M. Cap.)BlessedFeast day
  6. 31Blessed Solanus Casey (Bernard Francis Casey, O.F.M. Cap.)BlessedAnniversary of death (1957)

August

  1. 1Monsignor James HoranNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1986)
  2. 4Elisabeth 'Mamie' Van KeerbergenNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1994)
  3. 9Father Hugh MullanNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1971)
  4. 16Father William Joseph Gabriel Doyle, S.J.Servant of GodAnniversary of death (1917)
  5. 26Blessed Dominic Barberi (Domenico Barberi, C.P.)BlessedFeast day
  6. 26Blessed Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani)BlessedFeast day
  7. 27Blessed Dominic Barberi (Domenico Barberi, C.P.)BlessedAnniversary of death (1849)
  8. 29Blessed Edmund Ignatius RiceBlessedAnniversary of death (1844)

September

  1. 2J. R. R. TolkienNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1973)
  2. 3Liam CoyneNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1953)
  3. 28Blessed Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani)BlessedAnniversary of death (1978)
  4. 30Venerable Alfred Pampalon, C.Ss.R.VenerableAnniversary of death (1896)

October

  1. 12Maria ValtortaNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1961)
  2. 25Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy (Tadhg Mac Cárthaigh)BlessedFeast day · anniversary of death (1492)
  3. 30Father Michael Ross SDBNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (2016)

November

  1. 7Frank DuffServant of GodAnniversary of death (1980)
  2. 11Venerable Catherine McAuley, R.S.M.VenerableAnniversary of death (1841)
  3. 15Father Patrick Aloysius MurrayNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1882)
  4. 24Father Slavko Barbarić, O.F.M.No Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (2000)

December

  1. 8Archdeacon Bartholomew CavanaghNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (1897)
  2. 23Sister Ruth Maria O'CallaghanNo Open Cause YetAnniversary of death (2020)

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