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The Episcopal Church didn't canonize many writers.

The Episcopal Church didn't canonize many writers. But they made an exception for a man who once described himself as "a rollicking journalist who never took himself seriously." G.K. Chesterton died in 1936, a Catholic — not Episcopalian — yet the Episcopal Church added him to their calendar anyway. He weighed over 300 pounds, carried a swordstick, and regularly got lost walking to his own lectures. And somehow, that shambling, laughing man wrote 80 books that still won't let readers go.

Anthony of Padua wasn't supposed to be a Franciscan.

Anthony of Padua wasn't supposed to be a Franciscan. He joined the Augustinians first, spent years in quiet study, and was headed nowhere remarkable. Then five Franciscan martyrs were killed in Morocco in 1220, and their remains were carried through his town. Something shifted. He switched orders almost immediately. He went on to become the fastest person ever canonized — just 352 days after his death. And today he's the patron saint of lost things, which started because a novice stole his psalter and reportedly returned it after Anthony prayed.

Blessed Thomas Woodhouse was executed in 1573 for one reason: he refused to stop being a priest.

Blessed Thomas Woodhouse was executed in 1573 for one reason: he refused to stop being a priest. England had made it illegal. Henry VIII had broken from Rome decades earlier, and by Elizabeth I's reign, celebrating Mass was a criminal act. Woodhouse spent twelve years in Fleet Prison before they finally hanged him at Tyburn. He never recanted. The Catholic Church beatified him in 1886, three centuries after his death. But here's the thing — he wasn't famous. He was just stubborn.

Almost nothing is known about Saint Cetteus — and that's the point.

Almost nothing is known about Saint Cetteus — and that's the point. He was a bishop somewhere in early Christianity's outer edges, killed for his faith, and then mostly forgotten. The Church kept his name anyway. Just the name, the title, the fact of his death. No date, no location, no story. And yet he made the calendar. Thousands of saints have fuller records and didn't. Sometimes survival in history isn't about what you did. It's about who wrote it down.

The city fell twice — and the second time, the Kurdish defenders knew it was coming.

The city fell twice — and the second time, the Kurdish defenders knew it was coming. In 1991, after Saddam Hussein's forces crushed the Kurdish uprising that briefly seized Suleimaniah, roughly 1.5 million Kurds fled into the mountains toward Iran and Turkey in one of the largest refugee crises of that decade. But Suleimaniah didn't stay fallen. It became the cultural heart of the Kurdistan Region — universities, poetry, resistance. The martyrs they mourn each year are also the reason the city still speaks Kurdish at all.

Roman matrons walked barefoot to the Temple of Vesta on the seventh day of the Vestalia, offering simple grain cakes …

Roman matrons walked barefoot to the Temple of Vesta on the seventh day of the Vestalia, offering simple grain cakes to the goddess of the hearth. By honoring the sacred fire that protected the city’s survival, these women secured the domestic stability and divine favor essential to the Roman state’s continuity.

He died at 35, was canonized in under a year, and had a basilica started in his name before most people had even hear…

He died at 35, was canonized in under a year, and had a basilica started in his name before most people had even heard his eulogy. Anthony of Padua wasn't originally from Padua at all — he was Portuguese, born Fernando Martins de Bulhões in Lisbon around 1195. He only ended up in northern Italy because a mission to Morocco fell through when illness forced him back. An accidental friar in an accidental city. And yet he became the Catholic Church's most prayed-to saint for finding lost things. Funny, given how lost his own path seemed.

Véronie Clémence Ursulla was accused of being a witch.

Véronie Clémence Ursulla was accused of being a witch. Not metaphorically — literally hunted. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, people with albinism are killed for their body parts, believed to carry magical power. Attacks spiked into the hundreds by 2014. That horror is exactly what pushed the UN to create this day in 2015. And the number they chose — June 13 — wasn't random. It's the birthday of the albinism rights movement itself. A day meant to replace fear with visibility. The "curse" was always just a person.

The feast day of Saint Agricius almost didn't survive the Middle Ages.

The feast day of Saint Agricius almost didn't survive the Middle Ages. He served as bishop of Sens in northern France sometime in the 4th century, but so little documentation survived that later scholars couldn't even agree on his dates. The Church kept him anyway. That stubbornness matters — Sens itself was one of the oldest Christian communities in Gaul, and its bishops carried enormous weight. Agricius made the list. His story mostly disappeared. But his name held on, which might be the whole point of a feast day.

Roman flute players celebrated the Quinquatrus Minusculae by parading through the streets in masks and long robes.

Roman flute players celebrated the Quinquatrus Minusculae by parading through the streets in masks and long robes. This festival honored Minerva as the patron of musicians, granting them the rare legal right to perform at public sacrifices and funerals, a privilege that elevated their social status within the rigid hierarchy of the Roman Republic.

Leo III didn't earn his papacy — he survived it.

Leo III didn't earn his papacy — he survived it. Enemies attacked him in the streets of Rome in 799, trying to gouge out his eyes and cut out his tongue. They failed. He fled to Charlemagne for protection, and Charlemagne marched to Rome. On Christmas Day 800, he crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans — reportedly without warning. Charlemagne later said he hated the surprise. But that moment accidentally rebuilt the idea of a Western empire, dead for 300 years. One street attack rewired European politics for centuries.

He lived naked in the Egyptian desert for seventy years.

He lived naked in the Egyptian desert for seventy years. Saint Onuphrius, a 4th-century hermit, abandoned a monastery near Thebes because it felt too comfortable. Too easy. He wandered into the wilderness with nothing, eventually covered only by his own waist-length beard and a few leaves. A monk named Paphnutius found him just before he died and buried him — the old man's body dissolving into the sand almost immediately after. Onuphrius became patron saint of weavers. The man who wore nothing, protecting those who make cloth.

Hungary picked January 9th for Inventors' Day because that's the birthday of Jedlik Ányos — a Benedictine monk who qu…

Hungary picked January 9th for Inventors' Day because that's the birthday of Jedlik Ányos — a Benedictine monk who quietly built the world's first electric motor in 1827 and never told anyone. No patent. No press. He called it a "rotating electromagnetic device" and tucked it away in his lab at the University of Pest. Werner von Siemens got the credit decades later. Hungary eventually reclaimed Jedlik's story, naming the day after him. A monk invented the electric motor. Then forgot to mention it.

The Eastern Orthodox calendar doesn't just mark June 13 — it runs on an entirely different clock.

The Eastern Orthodox calendar doesn't just mark June 13 — it runs on an entirely different clock. While most of the world follows the Gregorian calendar, many Orthodox churches still use the Julian calendar, which now runs 13 days behind. That gap wasn't always 13. It grows by one day every century. And it means Orthodox Christmas, Easter, and feast days keep drifting further from their Western counterparts. Two Christians. Same faith. Same saints. Celebrating on different days — and the distance between them is still widening.

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Psalmode (en) († vers 589) -ou « Psalmodius », « Psalmet », « Saumay » ou « Sauman »-, originaire d'Irlande ou d'Écos…

Psalmode (en) († vers 589) -ou « Psalmodius », « Psalmet », « Saumay » ou « Sauman »-, originaire d'Irlande ou d'Écosse, possible disciple de saint Brendan, anachorète émigré dans le Limousin à Eymoutiers ; fêté aussi le 8 mars ou le 15 juin en Orient.

Pérégrin († vers 600) -ou « Céthée » ou « Cetheus »-, évêque d’Amiterno (L'Aquila), martyr, noyé dans l'Aterno par le…

Pérégrin († vers 600) -ou « Céthée » ou « Cetheus »-, évêque d’Amiterno (L'Aquila), martyr, noyé dans l'Aterno par les Lombards.

Achille († 312), patriarche d'Alexandrie ; fêté aussi le 3 juin en Orient.

Fêtes religieuses romaines : les Quinquatrus Minusculae, à l'occasion des ides d' "iunius" / juin du calendrier roma…

Fêtes religieuses romaines : les Quinquatrus Minusculae, à l'occasion des ides d' "iunius" / juin du calendrier romain ci-avant.

España España: Biescas (Huesca): Romería a la Ermita de Santa Elena.

España España: Vadillo de la Guareña (Zamora): Fiesta patronal, San Antonio de Padua.

يوم الشهيد في الأحواز.

España España: Robledo de Chavela (Madrid): Fiesta patronal.

Dia Internacional do Softbol

Dia do Turista

Feriado municipal em Pirajuí, Lins, Americana, Adamantina, Cordeirópolis, Guaratinguetá, Lapa, Pinheiral, Rancharia,…

Feriado municipal em Pirajuí, Lins, Americana, Adamantina, Cordeirópolis, Guaratinguetá, Lapa, Pinheiral, Rancharia, Santo Antônio da Alegria, Santo Antônio de Posse, Santo Antônio de Pádua, Tijucas - dia de Santo Antônio e aniversário dessas cidades.

Feriado municipal em Caraguatatuba, Duque de Caxias, Garanhuns, Governador Valadares, Juiz de Fora, Nova Iguaçu, Osas…

Feriado municipal em Caraguatatuba, Duque de Caxias, Garanhuns, Governador Valadares, Juiz de Fora, Nova Iguaçu, Osasco, Piancó,Itabaiana (Sergipe) e centenas de outros municípios - dia de Santo Antônio, padroeiro dessas cidades. A relação de cidades que comemora-se o dia do padroeiro Santo Antônio é longa e atinge centenas de cidades.

Namenstage Antonius, Bernhild

Argentina Argentina: Provincia de Misiones Misiones: Aniversario del Instituto Provincial de Desarrollo Habitacional …

Argentina Argentina: Provincia de Misiones Misiones: Aniversario del Instituto Provincial de Desarrollo Habitacional (IPRODHA).Fundación: 13 de junio de 1977 (48 años).

Argentina Argentina: Provincia de Misiones Misiones: Aniversario del Instituto Superior Antonio Ruiz de Montoya.La el…

Argentina Argentina: Provincia de Misiones Misiones: Aniversario del Instituto Superior Antonio Ruiz de Montoya.La elección del nombre Antonio Ruiz de Montoya desea "honrar a todos los sacerdotes de las misiones guaraníes y a todos los hijos espirituales que actuaron en las Américas y que se distinguieron especialmente en la educación de la juventud americana", lo expresó Monseñor Jorge Kemerer en el discurso de inauguración.Fundación: 13 de junio de 1960 (65 años).

Argentina Argentina: Provincia de Misiones Misiones: Aniversario de Colonia Victoria.Fundación: 13 de junio de 1939 (…

Argentina Argentina: Provincia de Misiones Misiones: Aniversario de Colonia Victoria.Fundación: 13 de junio de 1939 (86 años).

Argentina Argentina: Provincia de Misiones Misiones: Día del Escritor Misionero.Establecido por Ley VI-Artículo 176 d…

Argentina Argentina: Provincia de Misiones Misiones: Día del Escritor Misionero.Establecido por Ley VI-Artículo 176 del 16 de enero de 2014, en homenaje a Juan Enrique Acuña, considerado escritor fundacional de la Literatura Misionera.

Argentina Argentina: Día del Ministerio de Defensa.Conmemora la creación de esta cartera en 1958.

Argentina Argentina: Día del Ministerio de Defensa.Conmemora la creación de esta cartera en 1958. Ese día, se recuerda la promulgación de la Ley de "Ministerios" que estableció el Ministerio de Defensa como órgano encargado de la defensa nacional y el mando de las Fuerzas Armadas. La celebración del Día del Ministerio de Defensa es una oportunidad para reconocer la importancia de las Fuerzas Armadas y la estrategia de Defensa Nacional para Argentina.

Día Mundial del Cáncer de Piel.

Panamá Panamá: Día del Físico.Se conmemora el natalicio del doctor Bernardo Lombardo, el primer panameño en obtener u…

Panamá Panamá: Día del Físico.Se conmemora el natalicio del doctor Bernardo Lombardo, el primer panameño en obtener un título en Física en Panamá.

Christian feast day: Aquilina

Unión Europea Unión Europea: Día Europeo de la Prevención del Cáncer de Piel.

San Trifilio de Leucosia, obispo (370).

San Aquíleo de Alejandría, obispo (312).

San Eulogio de Alejandría, obispo (c.

San Eulogio de Alejandría, obispo (c. 607).

San Salmodio de Limoges, eremita (s.

San Salmodio de Limoges, eremita (s. VII).

San Ragneberto de Lyon, mártir (680).

San Aventino de Larboust, eremita y mártir (s.

San Aventino de Larboust, eremita y mártir (s. VIII).

España España: Caniles (Granada): Fiesta patronal.

España España: Navas de San Antonio (Segovia): Fiesta patronal.

Santos Agustín Phan Viet Huy y Nicolás Bui Viet The, mártires (1839).

Beato Gerardo de Clairvaux, monje (1138).

aux Euloge et

Andronic de Moscou (ru) († 1395), higoumène (abbé) du monastère Andronikov et thaumaturge en Russie.

Marie-Anne Biernacka († 1943), bienheureuse laïque italienne et martyre.

Augustin Phan Viet Huy (pl) et Nicolas Bui Viet Thé (en) († 1839), soldats martyrs au Vietnam près de Hué en Annam.

Ragnebert († vers 675 ou 680) -ou « Rambert », « Ragnobert », « Raguebert » ou « Raguebertus »-, leude martyr près de…

Ragnebert († vers 675 ou 680) -ou « Rambert », « Ragnobert », « Raguebert » ou « Raguebertus »-, leude martyr près de Bourg-en-Bresse sur ordre du maire du palais de Neustrie Ébroïn.