`` Blessed Saint Nicholas, I thank thee for getting me out of that mess and sending me up instead of down when I was bewildered.

North Walsham's church of St. Nicholas was originally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and is one of the UK's largest parish churches.

A studious, kind and gentle youth, at the age of 18 Nicholas became an Augustinian Friar and was a student of the Blessed Angelus de Scarpetti.

Other examples of Chandler bells still in use are at St. Nicholas, Ickford and across the Oxfordshire county boundary at The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Beckley, SS Peter and Paul, Steeple Aston and the Sanctus bell at St. Mary, Chesterton.

He also printed The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ by Pseudo-Bonaventure, translated by Nicholas Love, OCart.

* Blessed Nicholas Garlick, Catholic priest and martyr, was a schoolmaster here in the 16th century

Solemn Mass with Gregorian chant, Solemn Te Deum, Solemn Novena with Hymns to St. Nicholas, and Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, are all part of the week-long celebration.

History even records an instance in 1375 when an English Carmelite named Nicholas Hornby engaged in a public debate with a Dominican friar in which Hornby ridiculed Dominican claims to have received their habit from the Blessed Virgin — this was a claim common to several different orders in the Middle Ages.

As Kapellmeister to the Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy, Haydn ’ s principal duty in the last period of his life, beginning in 1796, was the composition of an annual mass to honour the name day of Prince Nicholas ’ wife, Princess Maria Hermenegild, 8 September, the birth of the Blessed Virgin.

Our Lady of Sorrows and St Francis, Armthorpe • Blessed English Martyrs, Askern • Sacred Heart, Balby • St Helen, Burghwallis • St George and the English Martyrs, Carcroft • Our Lady of Mount Carmel & St Mary Magdalen, Intake • Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Bentley • St Paul, Cantley • St Peter in Chains, Doncaster • Maridon Pastoral Centre, Doncaster • Polish Chaplaincy, Doncaster • St Mary, Edlington • Holy Family, Finningley • St Thomas of Canterbury, Kirk Sandall • St Joseph and St Nicholas, Moorends • Christ the King, Rossington • Our Lady of the Assumption, Stainforth • St Joseph and St Teresa, Woodlands • St Alban, Denaby • English Martyrs, Mexborough

* Blessed Nicholas Kochanov, Fool-for-Christ at Novgorod ( 1392 )

The 14th-century parish church is dedicated to The Assumption of Blessed Mary and St Nicholas.

The prior of the Grande Chartreuse allowed him to nominate Robert Tredwye as the first rector ( although the charter refers to him as the first prior ) and to dedicate the priory to " the Blessed Virgin and Saint Nicholas ".

Nicholas Love, prior of Mount Grace, succeeded in creating a link between the priory and the Lancastrian administration, in part by submitting his " Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ " to Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury, Henry IV's chancellor, in support of the archbishop's campaign against Wycliffism, and by granting Arundel confraternity in the spiritual benefits of Mount Grace in exchange for his provision of material benefits.

The see is in the town of Southwell where the seat is located at the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( also known as Southwell Minster ), which was elevated to cathedral status in 1884.

* 1799 – The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross ( d. 1873 )

* 1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin ( b. 1567 )

* 1711 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon ( b. 1651 )

* 1830 – St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.

* 1937 – Brian Blessed, English actor

Blessed Pope Benedict XI ( 1240 – 7 July 1304 ), born Nicola Boccasini, was Pope from 22 October 1303 until his death.

The Blessed Pope Urban V ( 1310 – 19 December 1370 ), born William de Grimoard, reigned as Pope from 1362 to 1370.

Blessed Pope Victor III ( c. 1026 – 16 September 1087 ), born Daufer ( Dauphar ), Latinised Dauferius, was Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII from 24 May 1086, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.

The Blessed Pope Innocent V ( c. 1225 – 22 June 1276 ), born Pierre de Tarentaise, was Pope from 21 January 1276 until his death.

Blessed Pope Innocent XI ( 16 May 1611 – 12 August 1689 ), born Benedetto Odescalchi, was Pope from 1676 to 1689.

He is regarded by many Catholics to be the first Pope whose body was discovered to be incorrupt, followed by Pope St. Pius X ( 1903 – 14 ) and Blessed Pope John XXIII ( 1958 – 63 ).

Following his beatification, his sarcophagus was placed under the Altar of St. Sebastian in the basilica's Chapel of St. Sebastian, where it remained until 8 April 2011 when it was moved to make way for the remains of Blessed Pope John Paul II ( 1978 – 2005 ) to be relocated to the basilica from the grotto beneath St. Peter's in honor of his beatification and in order to make his resting place more accessible to the public.

* 1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.

* February 12 – In Christchurch, New Zealand, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is opened.

* September 27 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed ( d. 1932 )

* January 8 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed ( b. 1866 )

* December 8 – Pope Pius IX in the Papal Bull Ineffabilis Deus defines ex Cathedra the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin.

* January 16 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon ( b. 1651 )

* September 3 – Gerard Thom ( The Blessed Gerard ), founder of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. c. 1040 )

* April 20 – Blessed Simon Rinalducci, Italian Augustinian friar

* April 21 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon ( d. 1711 )

* R 4. 38 – Mass for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in G major ( 1809 )

* R 4. 42 – Mass for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in G major ( 1811 )

* R 4. 44 – Mass for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in C major

The late Medieval period saw the recitation of certain hours of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin, which was based on the Breviary in form and content, becoming popular among those who could read, and Bishop Challoner did much to popularise the hours of Sunday Vespers and Compline ( albeit in English translation ) in his ' Garden of the Soul ' in the eighteenth century.

With this deed dating back to August 15, 805 A. D., the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she donated her entire property in Dachau, including 5 so called Colonenhöfe and some serfs and bondsman, to devolve to the Bishop of the Diocese of Freising after her death.

* Amadeus of Lausanne, Blessed, Bishop of Lausanne

Count Wilfred dedicated the famous monastery of Ripoll to the Blessed Virgin, and obtained from the Archbishop of Narbonne the consecration of Godmarus as Bishop of Vic.

The second college in Oxford to be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it was founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester as " The College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford ".

The charter of Ecgwine ( written 714 ) records that on the feast of All Saints “ Bishop Wilfrid and I consecrated the church which I had built to God, the Blessed Mary, and to all Christ ’ s elect ”.

* Blessed ( Bishop ) Scalabrini Catholic Elementary School

On 31 December 1854, the year of the proclamation of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Daniel was ordained a priest by Blessed John N. Tschiderer, Bishop of Trent.

There is an earlier document from 1379, when Bishop Brantyngham licenced for services " the chapel of Blessed Mary of Pensande ".

* Blessed Francis of Laval, First Bishop of Québec

His works are: the tomb of Bishop Johannes IV., in the Breslau cathedral ( 1496 ); the tomb of Archbishop Ernest, in Magdeburg cathedral ( 1497 ); the shrine of Saint Sebald in the Sebalduskirche at Nuremberg, between 1508 and 1519 ; a large grille ordered by the Fugger brothers in Augsburg ( lost ); a relief of the " Crowning of the Blessed Virgin " in the Erfurt cathedral ( a second example in the Wittenberg Schlosskirche, 1521 ); the tombstones for Margareta Tucherin in the Regensburg cathedral ( 1521 ), and for the Eisen family in the Agidienkirche at Nuremberg ( 1522 ); the epitaph for the cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg in the collegiate church at Aschaffenburg ( 1525 ); the epitaph of the duchess Helene of Mecklenburg in the cathedral at Schwerin.

Watson was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15, 1557, by the Archbishop of York in London.

Blessed Wincenty Kadłubek ( 1161 – 8 March 1223 ), also known as Vincent Kadlubek, Vincent Kadlubo, Vincent Kadlubko, Vincent of Kraków, Master Vincentius, was a thirteenth century Bishop of Cracow and historian of Poland.

Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen ( March 16, 1878 – March 22, 1946 ) was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Hear our prayers, we beseech Thee, O Lord, offered by us on the feast of Blessed Porphyrius, Thy Confessor and Bishop ; and by the interceding merits of him who was found worthy to serve Thee, free us from all sin.

* Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky ( 1903 – 1973 ) Bishop and Martyr

Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy ( c. 1455 – 25 October 1492 ) was an Irish ecclesiastic, who was appointed Bishop of Ross, Ireland in 1482 and Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1490.

* Blessed Albert Avogadro ( 1149 – 1214 ), Italian canon lawyer, Bishop of Bobbio, Bishop of Vercelli and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem ; author of the Carmelite Rule of St. Albert – also known as Saint Albert of Jerusalem

:* Rostov Wonderworkers: Bishop Leontius ( 1073 ); Archimandrite Abraham the wonderworker ( 1073-1077 ); Bishop Isaiah, wonderworker ( 1090 ); Prince Basil ( 1238 ); Bishop Ignatius ( 1288 ); Peter, Tsarevich of Ordynsk ( 1290 ); Bishop James ( 1391 ); Archbishop Theodore ( 1394 ); Blessed Isidore, Fool-for-Christ ( 1474 ); Blessed John of the Hair-Shirt ( the Merciful ), Fool-for-Christ ( 1580 ); Monk Irenarchus the Hermit ( 1616 ); Metropolitan Demetrius ( 1709 );