Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Eligius of Noyon, bishop
- Edmund Campion, Ralph Sherwin, Alexander Briant, & Robert Southwell, priests and martyrs, (four of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales)
- Ansanus, martyr
- Agericus or Airy, bishop
- Tudwal, bishop
- Charles de Foucauld
Sts. Edmund Campion, Ralph Sherwin, & Robert Southwell were Jesuits. St. Alexander Briant was a diocesan priest. When St. Alexander was imprisoned in the Tower of London, he wrote a letter to the Jesuits in England reflecting on his plight and asked to be admitted to the Society of Jesus. Consequently, he is numbered among the Jesuits' martyrs.
St. Robert Southwell was a Jesuit poet known for his poem, "The Burning Babe". Here is a quote from that poem:
Love is the fire
and sighs the smoke,
the ashes shame and scorns;
The fuel Justice layeth on,
and Mercy blows the coals;
The metal in this furnace wrought
are men's defiled souls,
For which, as now on fire I am,
to work them to their good,
So will I melt into a bath,
to wash them in my blood;
With this He vanish'd out of sight,
and swiftly shrunk away,
And straight I call'd unto mind
that it was Christmas day.
December 1 Saints in the Byzantine Calendar
- St. Nahum, Prophet
- St. Filaret, the "Almsgiver"
- St. Ananias, Martyr
The Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches celebrate today the feast of St. Nahum, a minor prophet in the Old Testament who was the father of another minor prophet, Amos.
The Church of England commemorates on December 1 Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916 A.D.). Charles de Foucauld was a French soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, hermit, and Catholic priest who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria (as a witness in the midst of non-Christians). His writings led to the founding of a number of religious communities inspired by his example, such as the Little Brothers of Jesus.
Charles de Foucauld was canonized by Pope Francis on 15 May 2022 A.D. in Rome. The Roman Catholic Church also celebrates the feast day of St. Charles de Foucauld every December 1.
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