AUGUST
While August is still in the middle of Ordinary Time, there are 21 Feast Days on Our Calendar to go along with this month’s preparations for the School and Program Year.
Click on each icon to read the life story of the saint (or saints!) celebrated, to find a prayer about them, and to secure your copy of their limited edition NFT.
This month’s art is by Rev. Kirsten Kohr of Geneva, Ohio.
AUGUST
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3. Joanna, Mary, and Salome, Myrrh-Bearing Women
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6. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
7. John Mason Neale, Priest and Hymnographer, 1866
8. Dominic, Priest and Friar, 1221
9. Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), Philosopher, Monastic, and Martyr, 1942
10. Laurence of Rome, Deacon and Martyr, 258
11. Clare of Assisi, Monastic, 1253
12. Florence Nightingale, Nurse, 1910
13. Jeremy Taylor, Bishop and Theologian, 1667
14. Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Martyr, 1965
15. SAINT MARY THE VIRGIN, MOTHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
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20. Bernard of Clairvaux, Monastic and Theologian, 1153
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24. SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE
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27. Simeon Bachos the Ethiopian Eunuch
27. Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle, Priests, 1902 and 1890
28. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop and Theologian, 430
29. The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
30. Margaret Ward, Margaret Clitherow, and Anne Line, Martyrs, 1588, 1586, and 1601