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  • 2026.08.05: 

Wednesday in the 18ᵗʰ Week in Ordinary Time

The Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome

Wednesday in the Week after the 10ᵗʰ Sunday after Pentecost (Ambrosian)

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Avellino)

Blessed Frédéric Janssoone, priest (Canada, Lille)

Our Lady Mother of Africa (Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe)

Our Lady of Ibiza (Ibiza)

Our Lady of Rocciamelone (Susa)

Our Lady of the Great Croatian Baptismal Vow (Vojni ordinarijat u Republici Hrvatskoj)

Our Lady of the Snows (Ayacucho, Reno)

Saint Boris and Saint Gleb, martyrs (Russia)

Saint Emygdius, bishop and martyr (Orihuela–Alicante, Orvieto–Todi, Sulmona–Valva, Trier)

Saint Paris of Teano, bishop (Teano–Calvi)

Saint Viator of Sologne, hermit (Blois)

Saint Yon, martyr (Évry–Corbeil-Essonnes)

  • 2026.08.06: 

The Transfiguration of the Lord

Saint Justus and Saint Pastor, martyrs (Alcalá de Henares)

Saints Sixtus II, pope, Felicissimus, and Agapitus, martyrs (Extraordinary Form)

  • 2026.08.07: 

Friday in the 18ᵗʰ Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Cajetan, priest

Saint Sixtus II, pope, and companions, martyrs

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Aix, Oslo)

Blessed Agathange of Vendome, priest and martyr (Blois)

Blessed Cruz Laplana, bishop, and Blessed Fernando Español, priest, martyrs (Cuenca)

Blessed Edmund Bojanowski (Poznań, Wrocław)

Friday in the Week after the 10ᵗʰ Sunday after Pentecost (Ambrosian)

Saint Afra, martyr (München und Freising)

Saint Albert of Trapani, priest (Acireale, Agrigento, Caltagirone, Caltanissetta, Catania, Cefalù, Mazara del Vallo, Messina–Lipari–Santa Lucia del Mela, Monreale, Nicosia, Noto, Palermo, Patti, Ragusa, Siracusa, Trapani)

Saint Altmann of Passau, bishop (Sankt Pölten, Wien)

Saint Candida Maria of Jesus, virgin (Salamanca)

Saint Dominic, priest (Świdnica)

Saint Donatus of Arezzo, bishop and martyr (Extraordinary Form, Salerno–Campagna–Acerno, Viterbo)

Saint Juliana of Mount-Cornillon, virgin (Belgium)

Saint Justus and Saint Pastor, martyrs (Carcassonne et Narbonne, Getafe, Huesca, Madrid)

Saint Karpophorus and companions, martyrs (Como)

Saint Mary MacKillop, religious (Antigonish)

Saint Stephen of Cardeña, abbot, and companions, martyrs (Burgos)

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin and martyr (Monaco)

Saints Severian, Victorinus, Secundus and Carpophorus, martyrs (Albano)

The Transfiguration of the Lord (Alcalá de Henares)

  • 2026.08.08: 

Saint Dominic, priest

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Sosnowiec)

Saint John Vianney, priest (Extraordinary Form, Bologna)

Saint Mary of the Cross, religious (Australia, New Zealand)

Saints Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus, martyrs (Extraordinary Form)

Saturday in the 18ᵗʰ Week in Ordinary Time (Świdnica)

The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday (Świdnica)

  • 2026.08.09: 

19ᵗʰ Sunday in Ordinary Time

11ᵗʰ Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form, Ambrosian)

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Congo-Kinshasa)

  • 2026.08.10: 

Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Transfiguration at Novosibirsk)

  • 2026.08.11: 

Saint Clare, virgin

Blessed Schecelin, hermit (Luxembourg)

Feria: 11ᵗʰ Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)

Our Lady of Święta Lipka (Warmia)

Saint Aurelia, martyr (Monaco)

Saint Equitius, abbot (L’Aquila)

Saint Sixtus I, pope and martyr (Alife–Caiazzo)

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, virgin, martyrs (Extraordinary Form)

Translation of the Relics of Saint Froilan, bishop (León)

Tuesday in the 19ᵗʰ Week in Ordinary Time (Luxembourg, Monaco, León)

Martyrology

  • 2026.08.05: 

The Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major

Saint Memmie, first bishop of Châlons

Saint Paride, first bishop of Teano

Saint Cassien, bishop of Autun

Saint Nonna, mother of family

Saint Emidio, first bishop of Ascoli Piceno, martyr

Saint Venantius, bishop of Viviers

Saint Viâtre, hermit

Saint Oswald, king of Northumbria, martyr

Blessed Cecco da Pesaro Zanferdini, Franciscan tertiary

Saint Margherita, widow near San Severino

Blessed Pierre-Michel Noël, priest and martyr of France

  • 2026.08.06: 

The Transfiguration of the Lord

Passion of Saint Sixtus II, pope, and companions, martyrs

Saints Just and Pastor, martyrs

Saint Hormisdas, pope

Blessed Ottaviano, bishop of Savona

Blessed Geselinus, hermit

Saint Dominic of Osma, priest, founder of the Order of Preachers

Saint Maria Francesca di Gesù Rubatto, virgin and founder of Capuchin Sisters of Loano

Blessed Carlos López Vidal, martyr of Spain

Blessed Tadeusz Dulny, martyr at Dachau

Birth of Saint Paul VI, pope

  • 2026.08.07: 

Saints Sixtus II, pope, Agapitus, Felicissimus and companions, deacons, martyrs

Saint Cajetan of Thiene, priest, founder of the Theatines

Saint Afra, martyr

Saint Donato, bishop of Arezzo

Saint Donatien, bishop of Châlons

Saint Victrice, bishop of Rouen

Saint Donat, bishop of Besançon

Blessed Giordano Forzatè, abbot

Saint Alberto degli Abati, Carmelite priest

Blessed Alberto da Sassoferrato, Camaldolese monk

Blessed Vincenzo dell’Aquila, Franciscan priest

Blesseds Agathange de Vendôme Noury and Cassien de Nantes Lopez Netto, Capuchin priests and martyrs of Ethiopia

Blesseds Martin of Saint Felix Woodcock (Farington), Edward Bamber (Helmes) and Thomas Whitaker (Starkie), priests and martyrs of England

Blessed Nicholas Postgate, priest and martyr of England

Blessed Edmund Bojanowski, founder of the Handmaids of the Immaculate Blessed Virgin Mary

Saint Miguel de la Mora y de la Mora, priest and martyr of Mexico

  • 2026.08.08: 

Saint Dominic, priest, founder of the Order of Preachers

Saints Secondo, Carpoforo, Vittorino and Severiano, martyrs

Saints Cyriacus, Largus, Crescentianus, Memmia, Juliana and Smaragdus, martyrs at Rome

Saint Marino, old man, martyr

Saint Eusebio, bishop of Milan

Saint Severus of Vienne, priest

Saint Mommole, abbot of Fleury

Saint Emilian, bishop of Cyzicus

Saint Altmann, bishop of Passau

Saint Famian, hermit

Blessed John Felton, martyr of England

Blesseds John Fingley, priest, and Robert Bickerdike, martyrs of England

Saint Paulus Ge Tingzhu, martyr of China

Saint Bonifacia Rodríguez y Castro, virgin

Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop, virgin, founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart

Blessed Maria Margherita Caiani, virgin, founder of the Third Order of Minims Franciscans of the Sacred Heart

Blessed Antonio Silvestre Moya, priest and martyr of Spain

Blesseds María del Niño Jesús Baldillou Bullit and r companions, virgins of the Daughters of Mary Escolapias, martyrs of Spain

Blessed Włodzimierz Laskowski, priest, martyr at Gusen concentration camp

  • 2026.08.09: 

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Discalced Carmelite virgin, martyr at Auschwitz

Saint Romano, martyr at Rome

Saint Nath Í, bishop abbot of Achonry

Saint Felim, bishop of Kilmore

Holy martyrs of Constantinople under Emperor Leo the Isaurian

Saint Falco, hermit

Blessed Giovanni da Salerno, Dominican priest

Blessed Giovanni della Verna, Franciscan priest

Blessed Richard Bere, priest and martyr of England

Blessed Claude Richard, Bendictine priest, martyr of France

Saint Cándida María de Jesús Cipitria y Barriola, virgin, founder of the Daughters of Jesus

Blessed Florentino Asensio Barroso, bishop of Barbastro, martyr of Spain

Blesseds Rubén de Jesús López Aguilar and 6 companions, Hospitaller religious, martyrs of Spain

Blesseds Faustino Oteiza Segura and Florentín Felipe Naya, Piarist religious and martyrs of Spain

Blessed Guillermo Plaza Hernández, Diocesan Labourer priest, martyr of Spain

Blessed Germán de Carcagente Garrigues Hernández, Capuchin priest and martyr of Spain

  • 2026.08.10: 

Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr

Holy martyrs of Alexandria of Egypt, under Emperor Valerian

Saint Blane, bishop

Blessed Arcangelo Placenza da Calatafimi, Franciscan priest

Blessed Augustinus Ōta, Jesuit religious and martyr of Japan

Blesseds Claude-Joseph Jouffret de Bonnefont, Sébastien de Nancy François and Lazare Tiersot, priests and martyrs of France

Blessed José Toledo Pellicer, priest and martyr of Spain

Blesseds Juan Martorell Soria and Pedro Mesonero Rodríguez, Salesian religious and martyrs at Valencia

Blesseds Franciszek Drzewiecki, priest of the Sons of Divine Providence, and Edward Grzymała, priest, martyrs at Dachau

  • 2026.08.11: 

Saint Clare of Assisi, virgin, founder of the Second Order Franciscans

Saint Alexander, bishop of Comana Pontica, martyr

Saint Tiburzio, martyr at Rome

Saint Susanna, martyr at Rome

Saint Rufino, first bishop of Assisi and martyr

Saint Cassiano, bishop of Benevento

Saint Taurin, first bishop of Évreux

Saint Athracht, abbess

Saint Equizio, abbot

Saint Géry, bishop of Cambrai

Saint Rusticule, abbess

Blesseds John Sandys, Stephen Rowsham and William Lampley, martyrs of England

Blessed Thomas Rehm, Dominican priest and martyr of France

Blesseds Rafael Alonso Gutiérrez and Carlos Díaz Gandía, martyrs of Spain

Blessed Miguel Domingo Cendra, Salesian religious and martyr of Spain

Blessed Maurice Tornay, priest and martyr of China

Saint John Henry Newman, cardinal and doctor of the Church


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