Calendar of saints (Anglican Church of Canada)

Prior to the revision of the Anglican Church of Canada's (ACC) Book of Common Prayer (BCP) in 1962, the national church followed the liturgical calendar of the 1918 Canadian Book of Common Prayer. Throughout most of the twentieth century, the situation in Canada resembled that which pertained in much of the Anglican Communion: There was uncertainty as to whether post-Reformation figures (with the exception of the martyred Charles I) could or should be commemorated. In the words of the calendar's introduction, "New names have been added from the ancient calendars, and also from the history of the Anglican Communion, without thereby enrolling or commending such persons as saints of the Church." The 1962 revision added twenty-six post-Reformation individuals, as well as commemorations of the first General Synod and of "The Founders, Benefactors, and Missionaries of the Church in Canada." Of the calendar days, twenty-eight were highlighted as "red-letter days" — that is, days of required observation.

With the publication of the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) in 1985, a revised and expanded calendar was introduced. This was supplemented, in 1994, with the publication of For All The Saints; a book of propers, short biographies and descriptions of the commemorations, and readings by or about the individuals or events commemorated (there were also some very minor changes to the 1985 calendar). As the BAS has largely supplanted the BCP for most Canadian Anglicans, so too has its calendar. Nonetheless, the BCP calendar is still in use and individuals and parishes can legitimately choose to observe it.

The chief difference between the 1962 and 1985 calendars is the elimination of observations for several European figures, in order to include individuals of interest to the Canadian Church, and to the worldwide Anglican Communion. Similar to the Calendar of saints of the Church of England, the Patriarchs of Old are omitted in both the Book of Common Prayer and the newer Book of Alternative Services, for the Anglican Church of Canada.

In the ACC, the calendar is officially referred to as the Canadian Calendar of Holy Persons.

Book of Alternative Services Calendar

Days of observance The revised calendar follows the Anglican custom of delineating between days of required observance ("red-letter days") and days of optional observance ("black letter days"). The way the calendar breaks these down is as follows:

Principal Feasts Easter Day Ascension Day The Day of Pentecost (Whitsunday) Trinity Sunday All Saints Day Christmas Day Epiphany

Feasts of Our Lord The Naming of Jesus The Baptism of the Lord The Presentation of the Lord The Annunciation of the Lord The Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth The Birth of St. John the Baptist The Transfiguration of the Lord Holy Cross Day

Other Major Feasts All Feasts of Apostles All Feasts of Evangelists The Holy Innocents Saint Joseph St. Mary Magdalene Saint Stephen St. Mary the Virgin The Beheading of John the Baptist St. Michael and All Angels

Fasts Ash Wednesday and other weekdays of Lent and Holy Week Good Friday and all other Fridays of the year, except in Christmas, Easter, and dominical Feasts

Days of Optional Observance ("black-letter days") Memorials (first class days of optional observance) Commemorations (second-class days of optional observance) Rogation Days Harvest Thanksgiving Ember days

In addition, some parishes observe other days commemorated elsewhere in the Christian tradition, such as Corpus Christi, Lammas-day, etc. Some individual parishes have their own calendars, which include the names of individuals significant to the parish or its identity, with which they supplement the national calendar.

The calendar The following is the calendar of the Anglican Church of Canada according to the Book of Alternative Services. On those days in which there are two commemorations, a pattern of alternating the observance by year is recommended.

January

DayCommemorationYear of deathType11The Naming of Jesus (known in BCP as "The Circumcision of our Lord")n/aHoly day2St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishops, Teachers of the Faith379, 389Memorial6The Epiphany of the Lordn/aPrincipal feast10William Laud, Abp of Canterbury1645Commemoration11 (or Dec 28)The Holy Innocentsn/aHoly day12Marguerite Bourgeoys, Educator†1700Commemoration12John Horden, Bishop, Missionary1893Commemoration13St. Hilary of Poitiers, Teacher of the Faith367Memorial15Richard Meux Benson, Religious1915Commemoration17St. Antony of Egypt, Abbot356Memorial18The Confession of St. Peter the Apostlen/aHoly day21St. Agnes of Rome, Martyr304Commemoration22Vincent of Saragossa, Deacon304Commemoration24Francis de Sales, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith†1622Commemoration25The Conversion of St. Pauln/aHoly day26St. Timothy and St. Titus, Missionariesn/aMemorial27St. John Chrysostom, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith407Memorial28St. Thomas Aquinas, Teacher of the Faith1274Memorial30Charles Stuart, King of England and Scotland, Martyr1649Commemoration

February

DayCommemorationYear of deathType12The Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas)n/aHD3St. Anskar, Missionary865Com5Martyrs of Japan1597Mem9Hannah Grier Coome, Religious1921Com14Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Missionaries869, 885Mem15Thomas Bray, Priest, Missionary1730Mem23St. Polycarp of Smyrna, Bishop, Martyr156Mem24Philip Lindel Tsen, Bishop1954Com24Paul Shinji Sasaki, Bishop1946Com26Florence Li Tim Oi, Priest21992Mem27George Herbert, Priest, Poet1633Com

March

DayCommemorationYear of deathType11St. David of Wales, Abbot Bishopc. 544Mem2St. Chad of Mercia, Bishop, Missionary672Com3John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Evangelists1791, 1788Com7St. Perpetua of Carthage and Her Companions, Martyrs202Mem8Edward King, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith1910Com9St. Gregory of Nyssa, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith395Mem10Robert Machray, Archbishop1904Com17St. Patrick, Missionary, Bishop461Mem18St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith386Com19St. Josephn/aHD20St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Bishop, Missionary687Com21Thomas Cranmer, Abp of Canterbury, Martyr1556Com22Thomas Ken, Bishop1711Com23Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop332Com25The Annunciation of the Lord to the Blessed Virgin Maryn/aHD27Charles Henry Brent, Bishop1929Com29John Keble, Priest1866Com31John Donne, Priest, Poet1631Com

April

DayCommemorationYear of deathType11Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest1872Com2Henry Budd, Priest1875Com3St. Richard of Chichester, Bishop1253Com4Reginald Heber, Bishop1826Com5Emily Ayckbowm, Religious21900Mem9William Law, Priest1761Com11George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop, Missionary1878Com16Mollie Brant, Matron1796Com21St. Anselm of Canterbury, Abp of Canterbury, Teacher of the Faith1109Mem23St. George4th CenturyCom24Martyrs of the Twentieth Centuryn/aMem25St. Mark the Evangelistn/aHD29St. Catherine of Siena, Religious1380Mem30Marie of the Incarnation, Religious, Educator1672Com

May

DayCommemorationYear of deathType11Philip and James, Apostlesn/aHD6 (or Dec 27)John the Evangelistn/aHD8Julian of Norwich, Spiritual Teacherc. 1417Com12Florence Nightingale, Nurse, Social Reformer1910Com14St. Matthias the Apostlen/aHD19St. Dunstan of Canterbury, Abp of Canterbury988Com25Bede, Priest, Religious, Scholar, Teacher of the Faith735Com26St. Augustine of Canterbury, Abp of Canterbury605Mem27John Charles Roper, Bishop1940Com30Roberta Elizabeth Tilton, Founder of the Anglican Church Women1925Com31Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabethn/aHD

June

DayCommemorationYear of deathType11St. Justin, Martyr, Teacher of the Faithc. 167Mem2Martyrs of Lyon177Com3Martyrs of Uganda and Janani Luwum, Archbishop, Martyr1886, 1977Mem4St. John XXIII, Bishop, Reformer1963Com5St. Boniface, Archbishop, Martyr754Mem6William Grant Broughton, Bishop1853Com9St. Columba, Abbot, Missionary597Mem11St. Barnabas the Apostlen/aHD16Joseph Butler, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith1752Com18Bernard Mizeki, Catechist, Martyr1896Mem22St. Alban, Martyrc. 209Mem24Nativity of St. John the Baptistn/aHD28St. Irenaeus, Bishop, Teacher of the Faithc. 202Mem29St. Peter and St. Paul, Apostlesn/aHD

July

DayCommemorationYear of deathType13St. Thomas the Apostlen/aHD6Thomas More1535Com11St. Benedict of Nursia, Abbot547Mem13St. Henry of Finland, Bishop, Missionary1156Com22St. Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostlesn/aHD25James the Apostlen/aHD26St. Anne, Mother of the BVMn/aCom29William Wilberforce, Social Reformer1833Com

August

DayCommemorationYear of deathType13 (or Dec 26)St. Stephen, Deacon, Martyrn/aHD6The Transfiguration of the Lordn/aHD7John Mason Neale, Priest1866Com8St. Dominic, Priest, Friar1221Mem10St. Laurence, Deacon, Martyr258Mem11St. Clare of Assisi, Abbess1253Mem12The Consecration of Charles Inglis (1787)n/aCom13Jeremy Taylor, Bishop, Spiritual Teacher1667Mem14Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maximilian Kolbe, Martyrs1945, 1941Com15St. Mary the Virginn/aHD16Holy Women of the Old Testamentn/aMem17John Stuart, Priest, Missionary1811Com20St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot1153Mem24St. Bartholemew the Apostlen/aHD27St. Monnica, Matron387Com28St. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith430Mem29The Beheading of John the Baptistn/aHD30Robert McDonald, Priest, Missionary1913Com31St. Aidan, Bishop, Missionary651Com

September

DayCommemorationYear of deathType12Martyrs of New Guinea1942Mem3St. Gregory the Great, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith604Mem4First Anglican Eucharist in Canada (1578)n/aCom8The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Maryn/aMem10Edmund James Peck, Priest, Missionary1924Mem13St. Cyprian of Carthage, Bishop, Martyr258Mem14Holy Cross Dayn/aHD16St. Ninian, Bishopc. 430Mem18Founders, Benefactors, and Missionariesof the Anglican Church of Canadan/aMem19Theodore of Tarsus, Abp of Canterbury690Com20John Coleridge Patteson (Bishop)and His Companions, Martyrs1871Com21St. Matthew the Evangelistn/aHD25St. Sergius of Zagorsk, Abbot, Spiritual Teacher1392Com26Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop1626Com29St. Michael and All Angelsn/aHD30St Jerome, Teacher of the Faith420Mem

October

DayCommemorationYear of deathType14St. Francis of Assisi, Friar, Spiritual Teacher1226Mem10St. Paulinus of York, Bishop, Missionary644Com13St. Edward the Confessor, King1066Com15St. Teresa of Avila, Religious, Spiritual Teacher, Reformer1582Com15St. John of the Cross, Priest, Spiritual Teacher1591Com17St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop, Martyrc. 115Mem18St. Luke the Evangelistn/aHD19Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Joguesand Their Companions, Missionaries and Martyrs1642–1649Mem23James of Jerusalemc. 62Mem26Alfred the Great, King899Com28St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostlesn/aHD29James Hannington (Bishop) and His Companions, Martyrs1885Com30John Wyclyf, Priest, Reformer1384Com30Jan Hus, Priest, Reformer1415Com31Saints of the Reformation Eran/aCom

November

DayCommemorationYear of deathType11All Saints Dayn/aPF2All Souls Dayn/aMem3Richard Hooker, Priest, Teacher of the Faith1600Com4Saints of the Old Testamentn/aMem7St. Willibrord, Religious, Archbishop739Com10Leo the Great, Bishop, Teacher of the Faith461Mem11St. Martin of Tours, Abbot, Bishop397Mem12Charles Simeon, Priest1836Com14The Consecration of Samuel Seabury (1784)n/aCom16St. Margaret of Scotland, Queen, Reformer1093Com17St. Hugh of Lincoln, Bishop1200Com18St. Hilda of Whitby, Abbess680Com19St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Reformer1231Com20St. Edmund the Martyr, King, Martyr870Com23St. Clement of Rome, Bishopc. 100Com30St. Andrew the Apostlen/aHD

December