feast day

September 21, 2017
September 21 is the feast day of gospel author St. Matthew , one of the twelve apostles.

August 16, 2017
Today, 16 August, is the Feast Day of San Rocco, also known as Saint Roch, the ‘plague saint’.

July 31, 2017
31 July is the Feast Day of St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), who was the founder of the Jesuit Order (Societas Jesu).

July 25, 2017
25 July is the feast day of Saint James the Greater.

May 20, 2017
20 May is the Feast Day of Saint Bernardino of Siena, commemorating the day of his death in 1444 in L’Aquila.

January 20, 2017
Today, 21 January, is the feast day of St. Agnes, celebrated on the anniversary of her martyrdom in 304.

November 22, 2016
Today is the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia, an early Christian martyr memorably celebrated in fresco by Italian Baroque painter Domenichino .