Immaculata Comitium · Down and Connor
The Saints of August
Every day of August 2026 as the Church keeps it — the saint, the rank of the day, and the two Marian feasts a legionary should not let pass.
Day by day
Full titles, with the rank the Church gives to each day.
- 1SatMemorial
St Alphonsus Liguori
Bishop and Doctor of the Church — founder of the Redemptorists
- 2SunSunday
The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
St Eusebius of Vercelli and St Peter Julian Eymard give way to the Sunday
- 3MonFeria
Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
- 4TueMemorial
St John Vianney
Priest — the Curé of Ars, patron of parish priests
- 5WedOptional memorial
Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major
Our Lady of the Snows — the first church of the West raised in her honour
- 6ThuFeast
The Transfiguration of the Lord
- 7FriOptional memorial
St Sixtus II and companions, Martyrs
and St Cajetan, Priest
- 8SatMemorial
St Dominic
Priest — founder of the Order of Preachers
- 9SunSunday
The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) gives way to the Sunday
- 10MonFeast
St Lawrence
Deacon and Martyr
- 11TueMemorial
St Clare
Virgin
- 12WedOptional memorial
St Jane Frances de Chantal
Religious
- 13ThuOptional memorial
Ss Pontian, Pope, and Hippolytus, Priest
Martyrs
- 14FriMemorial
St Maximilian Kolbe
Priest and Martyr — founder of the Militia Immaculatae
- 15SatSolemnity
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Holyday of Obligation
- 16SunSunday
The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
St Stephen of Hungary gives way to the Sunday
- 17MonFeria
Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
- 18TueFeria
Tuesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
- 19WedOptional memorial
St John Eudes
Priest
- 20ThuMemorial
St Bernard
Abbot and Doctor of the Church — the great singer of Our Lady's praises
- 21FriMemorial
St Pius X
Pope
- 22SatMemorial
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
the octave day of the Assumption
- 23SunSunday
The Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
St Rose of Lima gives way to the Sunday
- 24MonFeast
St Bartholomew
Apostle
- 25TueOptional memorial
St Louis of France
and St Joseph Calasanz, Priest
- 26WedFeria
Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time
- 27ThuMemorial
St Monica
who wept and prayed thirty years for her son
- 28FriMemorial
St Augustine
Bishop and Doctor of the Church — the answer to those tears
- 29SatMemorial
The Passion of St John the Baptist
- 30SunSunday
The Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
- 31MonFeria
Monday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
On a Sunday the Sunday itself takes precedence, and any memorial falling that day is set aside
for the year. Optional memorials may be kept or passed over.
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