Saints and Commemorations

of the Episcopal Church

 

This page lists all Saints' Days and Commemorations of the Episcopal Church alphabetically, with links to pages which give the lectionary readings and more information about each one. For a listing by date, see the Kalendar page. Items in bold are Principal Feasts or Holy Days of the Episcopal Church. Items in italics are from A Great Cloud of Witnesses; all others are from Lesser Feasts & Fasts 2018. Those in [brackets] are for trial use.

A
  Aelred of Rievaulx, Jan 12
  Agatha of Sicily, Feb. 5
  Gregorio Aglipay, Sept. 5
  Agnes of Rome, Jan. 21
  Aidan, Aug. 31
  Alban, June 22
  Alcuin, May 20
  [Anna Ellison Butler Alexander], Sept. 24
  Alfred the Great, Oct. 26
 

All Souls / All Faithful Departed, Nov. 2

  All Saints, Nov. 1
  Richard Allen, March 26
  Roland Allen, June 8
  Alphege, April 19
  Ambrose of Milan, Dec. 7
  [Ammonius], Nov. 8
  Andrew, Nov. 30
  Lancelot Andrewes, Sept. 26
  Charles Freer Andrews, Feb. 12
  Junia and Andronicus, May 15
  The Annunciation, March 25
  Anselm, April 21
  Anskar, Feb 3
  Antony of Egypt, Jan. 17
  [Priscilla & Aquila], July 8
  Thomas Aquinas, Jan. 28
  [Johann Arndt & Jacob Boehme], May 11
  Francis Asbury, Nov. 15
  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury, July 30
  Athanasius, May 2
  Augustine of Canterbury, May 26
  Augustine of Hippo, Aug. 28
  Anne Ayers, April 8
  Gladys Aylward, Jan. 3
  Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, Jan. 2

 

B
  [Johann Sebastian Bach], July 28
  [Bakhita], Jan. 8
  [Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia & Margaret of Antioch], Nov. 24
  Barnabas the Apostle, June 11
  Charles Raymond Barnes, July 26
  Karl Barth, Dec. 10
  Bartholomew the Apostle, Aug. 24
  Basil the Great, June 14
  Richard Baxter, Dec. 8
  Thomas Becket, Dec. 29
  Bede, the Venerable, May 25
  Harriet Bedell, Jan. 8
  Benedict of Nursia, July 11
  [Richard Meux Benson], Jan. 14
  George Berkeley, June 16
  Bernard of Clairvaux, Aug. 20
  Queen Bertha, May 27
  [Birgitta of Sweden], Oct. 7
  Blandina and Her Companions (Martyrs of Lyons), June 2
  William Dwight Porter Bliss, Oct. 8
  Amelia Bloomer, July 20
  [Johann Arndt & Jacob Boehme], May 11
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, April 9
  Boniface, June 5
  First Book of Common Prayer, a weekday following the Day of Pentecost
  John Bosco, Jan. 31
  Artemisia Bowden, Aug. 18
  George Freeman Bragg, Jr, Aug. 3
  Mary (Molly) Brant, April 16
  Thomas Bray, Feb. 15
  James Lloyd Breck, April 2
  Charles Henry Brent, March 27
  Brigid of Kildare, Feb. 1
  Phillips Brooks, Jan. 23
  Henry Budd, Dec. 22
  John Bunyan, Aug. 29
  Harry Thacker Burleigh, Sept. 11
  Joseph Butler, June 16

 

C
  John Calvin, May 28
  Harriet Starr Cannon, May 5
  William Carey, Oct. 19
  Wilson Carlile, Sept. 26
  [Adelaide Teague Case], June 19
  [Peter & Annie Cassey], April 16
  [John Cassian], July 23
  [Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia & Margaret of Antioch], Nov. 24
  [Catherine of Genoa], Sept. 15
  Catherine of Siena, April 29
  [Edith Cavell], Oct. 12
  [Cecilia of Rome], Jan. 21
  Chad, March 2
  Thomas Bradbury Chandler, Aug. 17
  Philander Chase, Sept. 22
  G. K. Chesterton, June 14
  James Chisholm, Sept. 15
  Christmas Day, Dec. 25
  John Chrysostom, Jan. 27
  Clare of Assisi, Aug. 11
  Clement of Alexandria, Dec. 5
  Clement of Rome, Nov. 23
  [Margaret Ward, Margaret Clitherow & Anne Line], Aug. 30
  Atilano Coco, Dec. 9
  Columba, June 9
  Constance and her Companions, Sept. 9
  The Confession of Saint Peter, Jan. 18
  The Conversion of Saint Paul, Jan. 25
  Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Feb. 28
  Emily Cooper, April 17
  [Damien & Marianne Cope], April 15
  Nicholas Copernicus, May 23
  Cornelius the Centurion, Feb. 4
  [Margaret of Cortona], Feb. 22
  Miles Coverdale, Oct. 6
  Ralph Adams Cram, Dec. 16
  Lucas Cranach the Elder, Aug. 5
  Prudence Crandall, Sept. 3
  Thomas Cranmer, Oct. 16
  Fanny Crosby, Feb. 11
  Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Dec. 31
 

[Elisabeth Cruciger], May 3

  Alexander Crummel, Sept. 10
  Paul Cuffee, March 4
  Cuthbert, March 20
  Timothy Cutler, Aug. 17
  Cyril and Methodius, Feb. 14
  Cyril of Jerusalem, March 18
  Cyprian of Carthage, Sept. 13

 

D
  [Damien & Marianne Cope], April 15
  Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Aug. 14
  The Baptisms of Manteo, and Virginia Dare, Aug. 17
  David, March 1
  [Jane de Chantal], Dec. 12
  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, April 10
  James De Koven, March 22
  Bartolomé de las Casas, July 18
  [Vincent de Paul] & [Louise de Marillac], March 15
  Martin de Porres, Rosa de Lima, & Toribio de Mogrovejo, Aug. 23
  [Francis de Sales], Dec. 12
  Henry Beard Delany & Edward Thomas Demby, April 14
  Dominic, Aug. 8
  John Donne, March 31
  The Dorchester Chaplains,Feb. 3
  [Frederick Douglass], Feb. 20
  W. E. B. Du Bois, Aug. 3
  William Porcher DuBose, Aug. 18
  Dunstan, May 19
  Albrecht Dürer, Aug. 5

 

E
  Edmund of East Anglia, Nov. 20
  John Eliot, May 21
  Elizabeth of Hungary, Nov. 17
  Richard Theodore Ely, Oct. 8
  Julia Chester Emery, Jan. 9
  Kamehameha and Emma, Nov. 28
  Enmegahbowh, June 12
  Ephrem of Nisibis, June 10
  The Epiphany, Jan. 6
  King Ethelbert, May 27
  [Euphrosyne / Smaragdus of Alexandria], Sept. 25
  [Paula & Eustochium], Sept. 28

 

F
  Fabian, Jan. 20
  Perpetua and Felicity, March 7
  Samuel Ferguson, Aug. 2
  Nicholas Ferrar, Dec. 1
  [Charles de Foucould], Dec. 1
  Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4
  Francis Xavier, Dec. 3

 

G
  Thomas Gallaudet, Aug. 27
  William Lloyd Garrison, Dec. 17
  Genocide Remembrance, April 24
  George, April 23
  [Mechtilde of Hackeborn & Gertrude the Great], Nov. 19
  Washington Gladden, July 2
  [Charles Gore], Jan. 14
  Charles Chapman Grafton, Aug. 30
  Gregory the Great, of Rome, March 12
  Gregory of Nazianzus, May 9
  Gregory of Nyssa, March 9
  Gregory the Illuminator, March 23
  Wilfred Grenfell, Oct. 9
  Robert Grosseteste, Oct. 9
  William Alexander Guerry, June 9
  Matthias Grünewald, Aug. 5
  Nikolai Grundtvig, Sept. 8

 

H
  [Hadewijch of Brabant], April 22
  Sarah Hale, April 30
  Dag Hammarskjöld, Sept. 18
  George Frederick Handel, July 28
  James Hannington & His Companions, Oct. 29
  [Isabel Florence Hapgood], June 26
  William Hobart Hare, May 17
  [Helena of Constantinople], May 22
  George Herbert, Feb. 27
  Herman of Alaska, Nov. 15
  [Zenaida, Philonella & Hermione], April 14
  Hilary of Poitiers, Jan. 13
  Hilda of Whitby, Nov. 18
  Hildegard of Bingen, Sept. 17
  Cornelius Hill, June 27
  Walter Hilton, Nov. 9
  John Henry Hobart, Sept. 12
  Holy Cross Day, Sept. 14
  Holy Innocents, Dec. 28
  The Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Jan. 1
  James Theodore Holly, March 13
  Richard Hooker, Nov. 3
  John Horden, Dec. 15
  Hugh of Lincoln, Nov. 17
  Robert Hunt, April 26
  James Otis Sargent Huntington, Nov. 25
  William Reed Huntington, July 27
  Jan Hus, July 6
  Anne Hutchinson, Feb. 5

 

I
  Ignatius of Antioch, Oct. 17
  Ignatius of Loyola, July 31
  Independence Day, July 4
  Innocent of Alaska, March 30
  Irenaeus, June 28

 

J
  James the Apostle, July 25
  Philip and James, May 1
  James of Jerusalem, Oct. 23
  Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), May 30
  Jerome, Sept. 30
  [Joanna, Mary & Salome], Aug, 3
  John, Apostle and Evangelist, Dec. 27
  [Beheading of St. John the Baptist], Aug. 29
  Nativity of St. John the Baptist, June 24
  John Chrysostom, Jan. 27
  John of Damascus, Dec. 4
  [John XXIII], June 4
  James Weldon Johnson, June 25
  Samuel Johnson, Aug. 17
  Absalom Jones, Feb. 13
  Paul Jones, Sept. 4
  Joseph, March 19
  Joseph of Arimathea, Aug. 1
  Frances Joseph-Gaudet, Dec. 31
  Juan de la Cruz, Dec. 14
  [Juana Inés de la Cruz], April 18
  Simon and Jude, Oct. 28
  Dame Julian of Norwich, May 8
  Junia and Andronicus, May 15
  Justin, June 1

 

K
  [Toyohiko Kagawa], April 23
  Kamehameha and Emma, Nov. 28
  Hiram Hisanori Kano, Oct. 24
  [Kassiani], Sept. 7
  John Keble, March 29
  Marjery Kempe, Nov. 9
  Jackson Kemper, May 24
  Thomas Ken, March 21
  Johannes Kepler, May 23
  Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4
  Søren Kierkegaard, Sept. 8
  Ini Kopuria, June 6

 

L
  John LaFarge, Dec. 16
  Hugh Latimer, Oct. 16
  William Laud, Jan. 10
  William Law, April 10
  Lawrence of Rome, Aug. 10
  Leo the Great, Nov. 10
  C. S. Lewis, Nov. 22
  Florence Li Tim-Oi, Jan. 24
  Eric Liddell, Feb. 22
  [Agnes Tsao Kou Ying, Agatha Lin Zhao & Lucy Yi Zhenmei], Feb. 19
  Margaret Ward, Margaret Clitherow & Anne Line, Aug. 30
  Louis, King of France, Aug. 25
  Lucy of Syracuse, Dec. 13
  Luke, Oct. 18
  Martin Luther, Feb. 18
  Albert. M. J. Luthuli, July 21
  Janani Luwum,  Feb 17
  [Lydia of Thyatira], May 21

 

M
  Macrina of Caesarea, July 19
  The Baptisms of Manteo, and Virginia Dare, Aug. 17
  [Marcella of Rome], Jan. 31
  [Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia & Margaret of Antioch], Nov. 24
  Margaret of Cortona, Feb. 22
  Margaret of Scotland, Nov. 16
  Damien & Marianne Cope, April 15
  Vincent de Paul & Louise de Marillac, March 15
  [Marina the Monk], June 17
  Mark the Evangelist, April 25
  Thurgood Marshall, May 17
  Martin of Tours, Nov. 11
  Henry Martyn, Oct. 19
  The Martyrs of Japan, Feb. 5
  The Martyrs of Lyons, June 2
  Martyrs of New Guinea, Sept. 2
  [Martyrs of the Reformation Era], May 5
  Martyrs of Sudan & South Sudan, May 16
  The Martyrs of Uganda, June 3
  [Mary of Egypt], April 3
  [Joanna, Mary & Salome], Aug, 3
  Mary the Virgin, Aug. 15
  [Nativity of the Blessed Vigin Mary], Sept. 8
  Mary Magdalene, July 22
  Mary and Martha of Bethany, July 29
  [Maryam of Qidun], Oct. 30
  [Manche Masemola], Feb. 4
  Matthew, Sept. 21
  [Eva Lee Matthews], July 6
  Matthias, Feb. 24
  Frederick Denison Maurice, April 1
  William W. Mayo, March 6
  Robert McDonald, Dec. 15
  [Mechthild of Magdeburg], May 28
  [Mechtilde of Hackeborn & Gertrude the Great], Nov. 19
  [Melania the Elder], June 8
  Charles Menninger, March 6
  Thomas Merton, Dec. 10
  Cyril and Methodius, Feb. 14
  Michael and All Angels, Sept. 29
  Bernard Mizeki, June 18
  Monica, May 4
  [Hariett Monsell], March 26
  Charlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon, Dec. 22
  [Hannah More], Sept. 6
  Emily Malbone Morgan, Feb. 25
  [Moses the Black], July 2
  John Raleigh Mott, Oct. 3
  Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Oct. 7
  William Augustus Muhlenberg, April 8
  John Muir, April 22
  Pauli Murray, July 1

 

N
  Elie Naud, Sept. 7
  John Mason Neale, Aug. 7
  John Henry Newman, Feb. 21
  Nicholas of Myra, Dec. 6
  Florence Nightingale, Aug. 12
  Ninian, Sept. 16
  [Nino of Georgia], Dec. 15

 

O
  David Pendleton Oakerhater, Sept. 1
  Samson Occum, July 14
  First Ordination of Women to the Priesthood in The Episcopal Church, July 29

 

P
  [Pachomius of Tabenissi], May 15
  The Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, July 26
  William Passavant, Jan. 3
  Patrick, March 17
  John Coleridge Patteson & His Companions, Sept. 20
  [Paula & Eustochium], Sept. 28
  [Frances Perkins], May 13
  Peter and Paul, June 29
  Perpetua and Felicity, March 7
  Philip and James, May 1
  Philip, Deacon, Oct. 11
  [Zenaida, Philonella & Hermione], April 14
  [Phoebe], Sept. 3
  [Photini], Feb. 26
  Pioneers of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil, June 7
  Polycarp, Feb. 23
  Martin de Porres, Nov. 3
  The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Feb. 2
  [Priscilla & Aquila], July 8
  Henry Purcell, July 28
  Edward Bouverie Pusey, Sept. 18

 

Q
  Charles Quintard, Feb. 16

 

R
  Pandita Mary Ramabai, April 5
  Walter Rauschenbusch, July 2
  Remigius, Oct. 1
  Richard of Chichester, April 3
  Nicholas Ridley, Oct. 16
  "The Righteous Gentiles", July 16
  Jacob Riis, July 2
  John Roberts, Feb. 25
  Richard Rolle, Nov. 9
  Oscar Romero, March 24
  Rose of Lima, Aug. 23
  Christina Rosetti, April 27
  Andrei Rublev, Jan. 29
  [James Solomon Russell], March 28

 

S
  [Joanna, Mary & Salome], Aug, 3
  [Sarah, Theodora & Syncletica of Egypt], Jan. 5
  Paul Shinji Sasaki, Oct. 31
  [Dorothy Sayers], Dec. 17
  Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Oct. 14
  [Scholastica], Feb. 10
  Albert Schweitzer, Sept. 4
  Vida Dutton Scudder, Oct. 10
  Consecration of Samuel Seabury, Nov. 14
  George Augustus Selwyn, April 11
  Sergius, Sept. 25
  [Elizabeth Ann Seton], Jan. 4
  Samuel Shoemaker, Jan. 31
  Charles Simeon, Nov. 12
  Simon and Jude, Oct. 28
  [Maria Skobtsoba],July 20
  Nathan Söderblom, July 12
  Sojourner Truth, July 20
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, July 20
  [Edith Stein], Aug. 9
  Stephen, Dec. 26
  Maria Stewart, Dec. 17
  Henrietta Stockdale, Oct. 6
  Harriet Beecher Stowe, July 1
  Hudson Stuck, April 22
  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, March 8
  Henry Winter Syle, Aug. 27
  [Sarah, Theodora & Syncletica of Egypt], Jan. 5

 

T
  [Tabitha (Dorcas) of Joppa], Oct. 25
  Jeremy Taylor, Aug. 13
  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, April 10
  [Kateri Tekakwitha], April 17
  William Temple, Nov. 6
  Teresa of Avila, Oct. 15
  [Thecla of Iconium], Sept. 23
  [Theodora,] Empress, Feb. 11
  [Sarah, Theodora & Syncletica of Egypt], Jan. 5
  Theodore of Tarsus, Sept. 19
  [Therese of Lisieux], Oct. 1
  Thomas the Apostle, Dec. 21
  Thomas a Kempis, July 24
  Tikhon, April 7
  Timothy and Titus, Jan. 26
  Thomas Traherne, Sept. 27
  The Transfiguration, Aug. 6
  [Agnes Tsao Kou Ying, Agatha Lin Zhao & Lucy Yi Zhenmei], Feb. 19
  Lillian Trasher, Dec. 19
  Philip Lendel Tsen, Oct. 31
  Harriet Ross Tubman, July 20
  William Tyndale, Oct. 6

 

U
  Evelyn Underhill, June 15
  Richard Upjohn, Dec. 16

 

V
  Vincent of Saragossa, Jan. 22
  The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, May 31
  [Katharina von Bora], Dec. 20
  [Argula von Grumbach], July 14
  Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, May 10

 

W
  [Margaret Ward, Margaret Clitherow & Anne Line], Aug. 30
  Isaac Watts, Nov. 26
  Conrad Weiser, July 13
  John and Charles Wesley, March 3
  William White, July 17
  George Whitefield, Nov. 15
  William Wilberforce, July 30
  Channing Moore Williams, Oct. 14
  Roger Williams, Feb. 5
  Willibrord, Nov. 7
  Catherine Winkworth, Aug. 7
  Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, Feb. 28
  Daniel Wu, April 6
  Wulfstan, Jan. 19
  John Wycliffe, Oct. 30

 

X
  [Francis Xavier], Dec. 3

 

Y
  [Agnes Tsao Kou Ying, Agatha Lin Zhao & Lucy Yi Zhenmei], Feb. 19

 

Z
  [Katharina Zell], Sept. 5
  [Zenaida, Philonella & Hermione], April 14
  [Zita of Tuscany], April 27

 

Web author: Charles Wohlers
Last Uptade: 25 March 2020
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