The Martyrology of Donegal: a Calendar of the Saints of Ireland

Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge suggest this also for Bald's Leechbook and the anonymous Old English Martyrology.

In 1882 Pope Leo XIII had a Mass and an Office composed for his feast day, which he set at 14 April, the day after the day indicated as that of his death in the Martyrology of Florus ; but since this date quite often falls within the main Paschal celebrations, the feast was moved in 1968 to 1 June, the date on which he has been celebrated in the Byzantine Rite since at least the 9th century.

The study that had produced the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints stated that there were no grounds for his consideration as a martyr, and he is not presented as such in the Roman Martyrology.

Listed second in Levison's edition is the entry from a late ninth-century Fulda document: Boniface's status as a martyr is attested by his inclusion in the Fulda Martyrology which also lists, for instance, the date ( 1 November ) of his translation in 819, when the Fulda Cathedral had been rebuilt.

The Roman Martyrology, the official list of recognized saints, references Soter: " At Rome, Saint Soter, Pope, whom Dionysius of Corinth praises for his outstanding charity towards needy exiled Christians who came to him, and towards those who had been condemned to the mines.

On a day to which no obligatory celebration is assigned, the Mass may be of any saint mentioned in the Roman Martyrology for that day.

Τhe Roman Martyrology, the Catholic Church's official list of recognized saints, for February 14 gives only one Saint Valentine ; a martyr who died on the Via Flaminia.

The Saint Valentine is now celebrated on February 14 remains in the Catholic Church's official list of saints ( the Roman Martyrology ), but, in view of the scarcity of information about him, his commemoration was removed from the General Calendar for universal liturgical veneration, when this was revised in 1969.

His entry in the old Roman Martyrology for March 24 read:

Earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology for Christmas Day used this date, as did the Irish Annals of the Four Masters.

Because of the lack of definite information about the anonymous group of holy virgins who on some uncertain date were killed at Cologne, their commemoration was omitted from the Catholic calendar of saints for liturgical celebration when it was revised in 1969, but they have been kept in the Roman Martyrology.

He is listed for January 12 in the Roman Martyrology and the calendars of various churches.

The only difference is precisely that an optional memorial need not be observed, and, with the limitations indicated for the second part of Advent and for Lent, there is the possibility of celebrating instead the Mass either of another memorial assigned to that day, or of the weekday, or of any saint mentioned in the Roman Martyrology for that day, or indeed ( except during the first part of Advent, the days from 2 January to the day before Epiphany, and Eastertide ), a Mass for Various Needs, or a Votive Mass.

Richard is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on April 3, which is also the date for his commemoration in the new Roman Martyrology of 2004 for the Roman Catholic Church.

The liturgical cultus of Abercius presents no point of special interest ; his name appears for the first time in the Greek menologies and synaxaries of the 10th century, but is not found in the Martyrology of St. Jerome.

The most important sources include internal evidence from the Félire, a later Middle Irish preface to that work, a biographic poem beginning Aíbind suide sund amne (" Delightful to sit here thus ") and the entry for his feast-day inserted into the Martyrology of Tallaght.

There are reasons for believing that Óengus was ordained to the office of bishop, a denomination which is first assigned to him in a list of saints inserted into the Martyrology of Tallaght ( see below ).

Excerpt from the Martyrology of Oengus, presenting the entries for January 1st and 2nd in the form of quatrains of four six-syllabic lines for each day.

" Third, having identified a number of saints in the Martyrology of Tallaght, the primary model for the Félire, he proposes obits extending to that of St Teimnén or St Temnán of Linn Duachaill, who died in 828.

In the Catholic Church the Roman Martyrology lists their feast as July 8.

According to her acta, published by the Bollandists ( dating from the 8th century ) and the Martyrology of Reichenau, she was a Roman virgin of the early Christian church, daughter of Saint Pudens, friend of the Apostles, and sister of Praxedes.

St. Columbanus is named in the Roman Martyrology on 23 November, but his feast is kept by the Benedictines and throughout Ireland on 24 November.

Although Barlaam was never formally canonized, Josaphat was, and they were included in earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology ( feast day 27 November ) — though not in the Roman Missal — and in the Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar ( 26 August in Greek tradition etc.

The 27 December feast is found in the Syriac Breviary of the end of the 4th century and the Martyrology of Jerome.

Boniface IV is commemorated as a saint in the Roman Martyrology on his feast day, 25 May.

His feast day is given in the Roman Martyrology as 30 May.

His feast day is 5 March, on which date he is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology in the following terms: " In the cemetery of Callistus on the Via Appia, Rome, burial of Saint Lucius, Pope, successor of Saint Cornelius.

It remained so until 1969, when Pope Lucius's feast was moved in the Roman Martyrology to the day of his death and omitted from the General Calendar, partly because of the baselessness of the title of " martyr " with which he had previously been honoured.

There is no confirmation of this in the case of Pope Evaristus, who is listed without that title in the Roman Martyrology, with a feast day on 26 October.

In the Roman Martyrology his feast is celebrated on 2 January ; the Greek Church celebrates it on 22 February.

In 1969 the Catholic Church removed her feast day from the General Roman Calendar ; however, she continued to be commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on November 25.

Nevertheless, The Holy Maccabees are still recognized as saints and martyrs in the Roman Martyrology, and as such may be venerated by all Catholics everywhere on their feast and at other times.

Although the Roman Catholic Church still approves devotion to him, listing him in the Roman Martyrology among the saints venerated on 25 July, Pope Paul VI removed his feast day from the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in his 1969 motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis.

The 2004 edition of the " Roman Martyrology " succinctly states, " In Aethiopia, sancti Frumentii, episcopi, qui, primum ibi captivus, deinde, episcopus a sancto Athanasio ordinatus, Evangelium in ea regione propagavit Ethiopia, ( the feast ) of Saint Frumentius, bishop, who first was a captive there, and then, as a bishop ordained by Saint Athanasius, he spread the Gospel in that region.

Saint Eustace's feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is September 20, as is indicated in the Roman Martyrology.

Gottschalk's feast is the day of his death according to the Carthusians of Brussels in the Martyrology of Usuardus.

Although earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology commemorated Saints Faith, Hope and Charity on 1 August and their mother Sophia on 30 September, the present text of this official but professedly incomplete catalogue of saints of the Roman Catholic Church has no feast dedicated to the three saints or their mother: the only Sophia included is an early Christian virgin martyr of Picenum in Italy, commemorated with her companion Vissia on 12 April ; another early Christian martyr, Saint Faith ( Fides ), of Aquitania ( southern France ), is celebrated on 6 October, a Saint Hope ( Spes ), an abbot of Nursia who died in about 517, is commemorated on 23 May, and no saint Charity ( Caritas ) is included, although saints with somewhat similar names, Carissa and Carissima, are given, respectively under 16 April and 7 September.

The literary effort most commonly attributed to Óengus is the Old Irish work known as Félire Óengusso (" Martyrology of Óengus "), which is the earliest metrical martyrology — a register of saints and their feast days — to have been written in the vernacular.

Although the day of his death is unknown, Saint Cletus continues to be listed in the Roman Martyrology among the saints of 26 April.

Saint Vitus is still recognized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, being inscribed in the Roman Martyrology under June 15, and Mass may be celebrated in his honor on that day wherever the Roman Rite is celebrated, while the Saints Modestus and Crescentia who are associated with Saint Vitus in legend have been omitted, because they appear to be merely fictitious personages.

He is also recorded on this day in the Roman Martyrology.

He is credited with many miracles that occurred after his death, which most likely took place on 12 March, the day he is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology.

The Roman Martyrology mentions the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus under the date of 27 July, as follows: " Commemoration of the seven Holy Sleepers of Ephesus, who, it is recounted, after undergoing martyrdom, rest in peace, awaiting the day of resurrection.