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  • 2026.05.01: 

Friday in the 4ᔗʰ Week of Easter

Saint Joseph the Worker

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Bordeaux, Edmonton, HĂ  NĂŽi, Trier)

Our Lady of Chapi (Arequipa)

Our Lady of Laus (Gap–Embrun)

Our Lady, Patroness of Bavaria (MĂŒnchen und Freising)

Saint Ambrose of Ferentino, martyr (Frosinone–Veroli–Ferentino)

Saint James Minor, apostle (Funchal)

Saint Marcouf of Nanteuil, abbot (Blois)

Saint Pius V, pope (Canada)

Saint Riccardo Pampuri, religious (Ambrosian)

Saint Theodard of Narbonne, bishop (Carcassonne et Narbonne)

  • 2026.05.02: 

Saint Athanasius, bishop and doctor of the Church

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Haarlem–Amsterdam, Opus Dei)

Our Lady of the Mountain (Coria–Cáceres)

Saint Ippolyts and companions, martyrs (Avellino)

Saint Secundus of Abula, bishop and martyr (Ávila)

Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, martyr (Sion)

Saturday in the 4ᔗʰ Week of Easter (Sion)

  • 2026.05.03: 

5ᔗʰ Sunday of Easter

  • 2026.05.04: 

Monday in the 5ᔗʰ Week of Easter

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Frascati, Nice)

Blessed Carlos Manuel RodrĂ­guez (Puerto Rico)

Blessed Ceferino JimĂ©nez, martyr (Hungary, Barbastro–MonzĂłn)

Blessed Edoardo Giuseppe Rosaz, bishop (Susa)

Blessed John-Martin Moye, priest (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Metz, Saint-Dié)

Blessed Margaret of Castello, virgin (CittĂ  di Castello)

Blessed Sandra Sabattini (Rimini)

Our Lady Mother of Graces (Velletri–Segni)

Our Lady, Queen of Poland (Poland)

Saint Anthony of Tours, hermit (Tours)

Saint Athanasius, bishop and doctor of the Church (Haarlem–Amsterdam, Ávila)

Saint Birillus of Catania, bishop (Acireale, Agrigento, Caltagirone, Caltanissetta, Catania, CefalĂč, Mazara del Vallo, Messina–Lipari–Santa Lucia del Mela, Monreale, Nicosia, Noto, Palermo, Patti, Piazza Armerina, Ragusa, Siracusa, Trapani)

Saint Conleth, bishop (Ireland)

Saint Cyriacus of Jerusalem, bishop and martyr (Ancona–Osimo)

Saint Eventius, Saint Alexander and Saint Theodulus, martyrs (Sabina–Poggio Mirteto)

Saint Florian and companions, martyrs (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Bolzano–Bressanone)

Saint Florian, martyr (Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bjelovar–KriĆŸevci, Vicenza, Zagreb)

Saint Girons, martyr (Aire et Dax)

Saint Guido of Pomposa, abbot (Ravenna–Cervia, Speyer)

Saint James Minor, apostle (Jerusalem, Santiago de Cabo Verde)

Saint John Louis Bonnard, priest and martyr (HĂ  NĂŽi)

Saint José María Rubio, priest (Alcalå de Henares, Almería, Getafe, Madrid)

Saint Lawrence of Novara, bishop and martyr (Novara)

Saint Lazarus, deacon and martyr (Trieste)

Saint Macarius of Bordeaux, bishop (Bordeaux)

Saint Marie-Léonie Paradis, religious (Canada)

Saint Monica, widow (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Philip and Saint James, apostles (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela)

The English Martyrs (England)

The Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Brugge)

Veneration of the Shroud (Torino)

  • 2026.05.05: 

Tuesday in the 5ᔗʰ Week of Easter

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Albacete, Aversa, Besançon, Bourges, Przemyƛl, San Francisco)

Blessed Edmund Rice, religious (Ireland)

Blessed José Ricardo Díez, religious and martyr (León)

Blessed JuliĂĄn Benigno Moreno, priest and martyr (Calahorra y La Calzada–Logroño)

Blessed Manuel Sierra and companions, martyrs (Granada)

Blessed Panacea De’ Muzzi, virgin and martyr (Novara)

Blessed Salvio Huix Miralpéix, bishop and martyr (Lleida)

Blessed Vicente Soler, priest, and companions, martyrs (Tarazona)

Saint Amator of Tucci, priest and martyr (Jaén)

Saint Angelus of Jerusalem, priest and martyr (Acireale, Agrigento, Caltagirone, Caltanissetta, Catania, CefalĂč, Mazara del Vallo, Messina–Lipari–Santa Lucia del Mela, Monreale, Nicosia, Noto, Palermo, Patti, Piazza Armerina, Ragusa, Siracusa, Trapani)

Saint Aredius of Gap, bishop (Gap–Embrun)

Saint Asaph, bishop (Wales)

Saint Augustin Schoeffler, priest and martyr (Nancy)

Saint Gotthard of Hildesheim, bishop (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Bolzano–Bressanone)

Saint Hilary of Arles, bishop (Aix)

Saint Mauront of Marchiennes, abbot (Cambrai, Lille)

Saint Nunzio Sulprizio (Napoli, Pescara–Penne)

Saint Pius V, pope and confessor (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Sacerdos of Limoges, bishop (Périgueux, Tulle)

Saint StanisƂaw Kazimierczyk, priest (Poland)

  • 2026.05.06: 

Wednesday in the 5ᔗʰ Week of Easter

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Cap-Haïtien, Jefferson City, Marseille, Pompei, Portalegre–Castelo Branco, Rijeka)

Blessed Maria Caterina Troiani, religious (Frosinone–Veroli–Ferentino)

Feria: 4ᔗʰ Sunday after Easter (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Avertinus of Tours, priest (Tours)

Saint Britto of Trier, bishop (Trier)

Saint Dominic Savio (Susa, Torino)

Saint Domitian of Huy, bishop (LiĂšge)

Saint François de Montmorency Laval, bishop (Canada, Chartres)

Saint George, martyr (Russia)

Saint Irenaeus of Sirmium, bishop and martyr (Đakovo–Osijek)

Saint James, deacon, Saint Marianus and companions, martyrs (Algeria, Tunisia, Rabat)

Saint Jan Sarkander, priest and martyr (Czechia)

Saint John Payne, priest and martyr (Brentwood)

Saint Philip and Saint James, apostles (Poland)

Saint Sigismund of Burgundy, martyr (MĂŒnchen und Freising)

Saint Victoria, virgin and martyr (Rieti)

Translation of the Relics of Saint Matthew, apostle and evangelist (Salerno–Campagna–Acerno)

  • 2026.05.07: 

Thursday in the 5ᔗʰ Week of Easter

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Eger, LiĂšge)

Blessed Alberto da Villa d’Ogna (Cremona)

Blessed Gisela of Hungary (Hungary)

Blessed Maria of Saint Joseph, virgin (Venezuela)

Blessed Marie-Louise Trichet, religious (La Rochelle, Poitiers)

Discovery of the Holy Cross (Jerusalem)

Our Lady Mother of Divine Grace (Kielce)

Saint Domnius, bishop and martyr (Hvar–Brač–Vis, Mostar–Duvno, Split–Makarska)

Saint Innocent, martyr (Gaeta)

Saint John of Beverley, bishop (Hexham and Newcastle)

Saint Maximus of Aveia, martyr (Pescara–Penne)

Saint Rose Venerini, virgin (Viterbo)

Saint Stanislaus, bishop and martyr (Extraordinary Form)

Martyrology

  • 2026.05.01: 

Saint Joseph the Worker

Saint Jeremiah, prophet

Saint Andéol, martyr at Viviers

Saints Torcuato, bishop of Guadix, Tesifonte, bishop of Verja, Segundo, bishop of Ávila, Indaletio, bishop of Torre de Villaricos, Cecilio, bishop of Elvira, Hesiquio, bishop of Rocadillo, and Eufrasio, bishop of Andujar del Vejo, the Seven Apostolic Men of Spain, martyrs

Saint AmĂątre, bishop of Auxerre

Saint Orens, bishop of Auch and martyr

Saint Brieuc, bishop and abbot of Bretagne in France

Saint Sigismund, king of Burgundy, martyr

Saint Marcoul, hermit

Saint Asaph, bishop abbot of Llanelwy

Saint Arey, bishop of Gap

Saint Théodard, bishop of Narbonne

Saint Aldebrando, bishop of Fossombrone

Blessed Mafalda, virgin

Saint Vivaldo da San Gimignano Stricchi, hermit of the Third Order of Saint Francis

Blessed Julijan iz Bala Cesarello, Franciscan priest

Saint Pellegrino Laziosi, Servite religious

Blessed Pétronille, virgin, Clarisse abbess

Birth of Saint Pius V, pope

Saint Augustin Schoeffler, Paris Foriegn Missions priest and martyr of Vietnam

Saint Jean-Louis Bonnard, priest of Paris Foreign Missions, martyr of Vietnam

Saint Richard Pampuri, Hospitaller religious

Blessed Klymentii Sheptyts’kyi, priest and martyr in Russia

  • 2026.05.02: 

Saint Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria of Egypt and doctor of the Church

Saints Exuperius and Zoe, husband and wife, and their children Cyriac and Theodulus, martyrs

Saint Félix, deacon and martyr in Spain

Saints Vindemialis and Longinus, bishops and martyrs

Saint Valbert, abbot

Saint Wiborada, virgin and martyr at Sankt Gallen

Blessed Nils Hermansson, bishop of Linköping

Saint Antonino, Dominican, bishop of Florence

Blessed William Tirry, Augustinian priest and martyr of Ireland

Saint Giuse Nguyễn Văn Lựu, catechist and martyr of Vietnam

Saint José María Rubio y Peralta, Jesuit priest

Blessed BolesƂaw Strzelecki, priest and martyr at Auschwitz

  • 2026.05.03: 

Saints Philip and James, apostles

Saints Timothy and Maura, martyrs

Saints Evenzio, Alessandro and Teodulo, martyrs

Saint Giovenale, first bishop of Narni

Saint Conleth, bishop of Kildare

Saint Pietro, bishop of Argos

Saint Ansfried, bishop of Utrecht

Saint Theodosius, abbot of Kyiv

Blessed Emilia Bicchieri, Dominican virgin

Saint StanisƂaw Kazimierczyk, priest and canon regular

Blessed Edoardo Giuseppe Rosaz, bishop of Susa, founder of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Susa

Saint Marie-Léonie Paradis, virgin, founder of the Poor Sisters of the Holy Family

  • 2026.05.04: 

Saints Agapius and Secondinus, bishops, Emilian, Tertulla and Antonia, martyrs

Saint Antonina, martyr

Saint Florian, martyr at Lorch

Saint Silvanus, bishop of Gaza, and 39 companions, martyrs

Blessed WƂadysƂaw z Gielniowa, Franciscan priest

Saints John Houghton, Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster, Carthusian priors, Richard Reynolds, Bridgettine, and Blessed John Haile, priests and martyrs of England

Blessed Jean-Martin Moyë, Paris Foreign Missions priest, founder of the Sisters of Providence

  • 2026.05.05: 

Saint Jovinien, lector and martyr

Saint Euthymius, deacon and martyr

Saint Maximus, bishop of Jerusalem

Saint Britto, bishop of Trier

Saint Hilaire, bishop of Arles

Saint Nicétas, bishop of Vienne

Saint Geronzio, bishop of Milan

Saint Maurand, deacon and abbot

Saint Sacerdos, abbot and later bishop of Limoges

Saint Gottardo, bishop of Hildesheim

Saint Leo, hermit in Calabria

Saint Avertin, deacon

Saint Angelo, Carmelite priest and martyr

Blessed Benvenuto Mareni da Recanati, Franciscan religious

Saint Nunzio Sulprizio, orphan

Blessed Caterina Cittadini, virgin, founder of the Ursuline Religious of Somasca

Blessed Grzegorz Frąckowiak, Verbite religious and martyr of Germany

  • 2026.05.06: 

Saint Lucius, prophet and doctor of Antioch

Saints Marianus, lector, and James, deacon, martyrs

Saint Venerio, bishop of Milan

Saint Benedetta, virgin at Rome

Saint Eadberht, bishop of Lindisfarne

Saint Peter Nolasco, priest

Blessed Bartolomeo Pucci-Franceschi, Franciscan priest

Blesseds Edward Jones and Anthony Middleton, priests and martyrs of England

Saint François de Laval de Montmorency, first bishop of Québec

Blessed Maria Caterina di Santa Rosa da Viterbo, virgin, founder of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Blessed Anna Rosa Gattorno Custo, widow, founder of the Daughters of Saint Anne

Blesseds Henryk Kaczorowski and Kazimierz Witold GostyƄski, priests and martyrs at Dachau

  • 2026.05.07: 

Saint Domitilla, martyr

Saints Flavius and 4 companions, martyrs

Saint Céneri, deacon and monk

Saint John, first bishop of Hexham and later York

Blessed Gisela of Hungary, widow

Saint Anthony, hermit of Ukraine

Blessed Alberto di Villa d’Ogna, Dominican tertiary

Saint Rosa Venerini, virgin, founder of Maestre Pie Venerini

Saint Agostino Roscelli, priest, founder of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Genova


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