Page "Stephen I of Hungary" Paragraph 25

St Stephen is not mentioned in the Tridentine Calendar.

His feast day was added to the General Roman Calendar only in 1631, and only as a commemoration on 20 August, the feast of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

In 1687, it was moved to 2 September and remained there until the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints.

Then the feast of Saint Joachim on 16 August was moved and the date became available for another celebration, so the feast of Saint Stephen of Hungary was moved to that date, the day immediately after his death.

Some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 versions of the General Roman Calendar.