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News

Necrology

Papal Audiences

Feasts

  • 2025.12.09: 

Tuesday in the 2ⁿᔈ Week of Advent

Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Hong Kong, Arlington, Chiclayo, Dodge City, Fort Wayne–South Bend, Hinche, HuancavĂ©lica, Huancayo, Lansing, New Orleans, Pucallpa, Saint-Flour, ThĂ nh-PhĂŽ HĂŽ ChĂ­ Minh)

Blessed Bernard Silvestrelli, priest (Sabina–Poggio Mirteto)

Feria: 2ⁿᔈ Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Eucharius of Trier, bishop (Trier)

Saint Eulalia of MĂ©rida, virgin and martyr (Terrassa)

Saint Leocadia of Toledo, virgin and martyr (Oviedo, Toledo)

Saint Martin and Saint Eutropius, abbots (La Rochelle)

Saint Nectaire of Auvergne, priest (Clermont)

Saint Noël Chabanel, priest and martyr (Le Puy-en-Velay)

Saint Peter Fourier, priest (Belfort–MontbĂ©liard, Metz, Saint-DiĂ©)

Saint Syrus of Pavia, bishop (Milano)

Tuesday in the 4á”—Ê° Week of Advent (Ambrosian)

  • 2025.12.10: 

Wednesday in the 2ⁿᔈ Week of Advent

Our Lady of Loreto

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Jerez de la Frontera, Terrassa)

Blessed Arsenio Migliavacca da Trigolo, priest (Milano)

Blessed Martyrs of East Anglia (East Anglia)

Feria: 2ⁿᔈ Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Eulalia and Saint Julia, virgins and martyrs (Perpignan–Elne)

Saint Eulalia of MĂ©rida, virgin and martyr (Spain, Braga, Évora)

Saint John Roberts, priest and martyr (Wales)

Saint Melchiades, pope and martyr (Extraordinary Form, South Africa)

Saint Peter Fourier, priest (Trier)

Saint Valerie of Limoges, virgin and martyr (Limoges)

Saints Augustine Webster and Eustace White, Blessed Mark Barkworth, priests, and companions, the Martyrs of Lincolnshire (Nottingham)

Wednesday in the 4á”—Ê° Week of Advent (Ambrosian)

Ember Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia)

  • 2025.12.11: 

Thursday in the 2ⁿᔈ Week of Advent

Saint Damasus I, pope

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Calgary)

Feria: 2ⁿᔈ Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Maravillas de JesĂșs, virgin (Getafe, Madrid, Toledo)

Saint Paul of Narbonne, bishop and martyr (Carcassonne et Narbonne)

Thursday in the 4á”—Ê° Week of Advent (Ambrosian)

  • 2025.12.12: 

Friday in the 2ⁿᔈ Week of Advent

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Breda, Huesca, Jaca, Mother of God at Moscow, Santander)

Blessed Giacomo da Viterbo, bishop (Benevento)

Blessed Hartmann, bishop (Bolzano–Bressanone, MĂŒnchen und Freising, Wien)

Blessed John Marinoni, priest (Napoli)

Blessed MartĂ­n de San NicolĂĄs and companions, martyrs (Tarazona, Zaragoza)

Feria: 2ⁿᔈ Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)

Friday in the 4á”—Ê° Week of Advent (Ambrosian)

Saint Damasus I, pope (Madrid)

Saint Finnian, bishop (Ireland)

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, religious (Moulins)

Ember Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia)

  • 2025.12.13: 

Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Anchorage–Juneau, Port-au-Prince)

Feria: 2ⁿᔈ Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)

Saint Odilia of Alsace, abbess (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belfort–MontbĂ©liard, Besançon, Bolzano–Bressanone, Strasbourg)

Saturday in the 2ⁿᔈ Week of Advent (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belfort–MontbĂ©liard, Besançon, Bolzano–Bressanone)

Ember Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia)

  • 2025.12.14: 

3Êłá”ˆ Sunday of Advent (Gaudete)

5á”—Ê° Sunday of Advent (Ambrosian)

  • 2025.12.15: 

Monday in the 3Êłá”ˆ Week of Advent

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Northern Mariana Islands, Ciudad Quesada, Motherwell)

Blessed JĂĄnos Brenner, priest and martyr (Hungary)

Blessed Marija Jula Ivaniơević and companions, virgins and martyrs (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia)

Feria: 3Êłá”ˆ Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)

Monday in the 5á”—Ê° Week of Advent (Ambrosian)

Saint Aubert of Cambrai, bishop (Cambrai, Gent)

Saint Begga of Andenne, religious (Namur)

Saint David, king, and all ancestors of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Jerusalem)

Saint Folcwin of Thérouanne, bishop (Lille)

Saint John of Kanty, priest (Ambrosian)

Saint John of the Cross, priest and doctor of the Church (Köln)

Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr (Strasbourg)

Saint Maximin and Saint Euspicius, abbots (Orléans)

Saint Paul Nguyễn Văn Má»č and Saint Peter TrÆ°ÆĄng Văn Đường, martyrs (HĂ  NĂŽi)

Saint Peter Canisius, priest and doctor of the Church (Ambrosian)

Saint Urbicius, priest (Barbastro–Monzón, Huesca)

Saint Venantius Fortunatus, bishop (Poitiers, Vittorio Veneto)

Translation of the Relics of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor of the Church (LeĂłn)

Martyrology

  • 2025.12.09: 

Saint Juan Diego, visionary of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Saint Leocadia, virgin and martyr at Toledo

Saint Siro, first bishop of Pavia

Saint Gorgonia, mother of family

Saint Cyprien, abbot of Genouillac

Blessed Liborius Wagner, priest and martyr in Germany

Saint Pierre Fourier, priest, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Canonesses Regular of Saint Augustine

Blessed Bernardo Maria di GesĂč, Passionist priest

Blessed José Ferrer Esteve, Piarist priest and martyr of Spain

Blesseds Recaredo de los Ríos Fabregat, Juliån Rodríguez Sånchez and José Giménez López, Salesian priests and martyrs of Spain

  • 2025.12.10: 

Our Lady of Loreto

Saint Eulalia, virgin and martyr in Spain

Saint Mauro, child martyr at Rome

Saint Gemellus, martyr at Ancyra

Saint Gregory III, pope

Saint Luca, bishop of Isola

Saints Edmund Gennings, priest, and Swithun Wells, martyrs of England

Saints Polydore Plasden and Eustace White, priests, Blesseds Brian Lacey, John Mason and Sidney Hodgson, martyrs of England

Saint John Roberts, Benedictine, and Blessed Thomas Somers (Wilson), priests and martyrs of England

Blessed Marcantonio Durando, Vincentian priest, founder of Nazarean Sisters

Blessed Gonzalo Viñes Masip, priest and martyrs of Spain

Blesseds Antonio MartĂ­n HernĂĄndez and AgustĂ­n GarcĂ­a Calvo, Salesian religious and martyrs of Spain

  • 2025.12.11: 

Saint Damasus I, pope

Saints Victoricus and Fuscian, martyrs in France

Saint Savino, bishop of Piacenza

Saint Daniel the Stylite, priest

Blessed David, monk

Blessed Franco Lippi, Carmelite hermit

Blessed Ugolino Magalotti, Franciscan tertiary and hermit

Blessed Girolamo da Sant’Angelo in Vado, Servite priest

Blesseds MartĂ­n de San NicolĂĄs and Melchor de San AgustĂ­n, Augustinian Recollect priests and martyrs of Japan

Blessed Francis Bell, Franciscan priest and martyr of England

Blessed MarĂ­a del Pilar Villalonga Villalba, virgin and martyr of Spain

Saint MarĂ­a de las Maravillas de JesĂșs, Discalced Carmelite virgin

  • 2025.12.12: 

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Saints Epimachus, Alexander, Ammonarion, Mercuria, Dionisia and companions, martyrs of Alexandria

Saint Spyridon, bishop of Cyprus

Saint Finnian, abbot

Saint Corentin, first bishop of Quimper

Saint Israel, priest and canon regular of Le Dorat

Saint Vicelino, bishop of Oldenburg

Blessed Bartolo da San Gimignano, priest

Blessed Corrado da Offida, Franciscan priest

Blessed Giacomo da Viterbo, hermit, archbishop of Naples

Saint Simon Phan ÐáșŻc HĂČa, martyr of Vietnam

Blessed Pius Bartosik, Conventual Franciscan priest and martyr at Auschwitz

  • 2025.12.13: 

Saint Lucy, virgin and martyr at Syracuse

Saint Aristone, martyr at Fiumicino

Saint Antioco, martyr in Sardinia

Saints Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius and Orestes, martyrs in Armenia

Saint Josse, priest

Saint Aubert, bishop of Camrai

Saint Odile, virgin and first abbess of Hohenburg

Blessed Giovanni Marinoni, Theatine priest

Birth of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, virgin

Blessed Antonio Grassi, Oratorian priest

Saint Petrus Cho Hwa-sƏ, father of family, and 5 companions, martyrs of Korea

  • 2025.12.14: 

Saint John of the Cross, Carmelite priest and doctor of the Church

Saints Heron, Arsenius, Isidore and Dioscorus, martyrs at Alexandria of Egypt

Saints Thyrsus, Leucius, Callinicus and companions, martyrs at Apollonias in Bithynia

Saint Drusus, martyr at Antioch of Syria

Saints Ares, Probus and Elias, martyrs at Ascalon

Saint Pompeo, bishop of Pavia

Saints Nicaise, bishop of Reims, Eutropie, Florent and Jocond, martyrs at Reims

Saint Agnello, abbot of the monastery of San Gaudioso

Saint Venance Fortunat, bishop of Poitiers

Saint Folquin, bishop of Thérouanne

Blessed Bonaventura da Pistoia Bonaccorsi, Servite priest

Saint Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini, priest of Lebanese Maronite Order

Blessed Mary Frances Schervier, virgin and founder of the Sisters of the Poor of Saint Francis

Blessed Protasi Cubells Minguell, Hospitaller religious and martyr of Spain

  • 2025.12.15: 

Saint Valerian, bishop of Avensa

Saint Mesmin, priest

Blessed Marino, abbot of Cava

Blessed Maria Vittoria De Fornari Strata, widow, founder of the Order of the Annunciation

Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli, widow, founder of the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary

Saint Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, virgin, founder of the Handmaids of Charity

Blessed Carlo Steeb, priest and founder of the Sisters of Mercy


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