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 “September”, kalendar page from Les Petites Heures d’Anne de Bretagne (The Little Hours of Queen Anne of Bretagne), by the Maître des Triomphes de Pétrarque. From Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (France). Saint Evurtius is something of a cipher. Almost nothing is known about him. He was apparently highly revered as Bishop . . . → Read More: On the Kalendar: Saint Evurtius, Bishop of Orleans 
Giles of Provence, by Hans Memling (c. 1430–1494). From Wikipedia. Giles was born in Athens, but he eventually made his way to Provence, France. He lived for a while in Arles, but eventually he retreated to a hermitage in the forest in Nîmes, across the border in the Occitanie region of France. . . . → Read More: On the Kalendar: Giles of Provence, Abbot 
Louis taken prisoner during the Seventh Crusade, by Gustave Doré (1832–1883). From Wikipedia. Louis IX of France is the only French king to have been canonized. Born in 1214, he was crowned king at the age of 12. As an adult, he successfully defeated Henry III of England at Taillebourg, halting Henry’s . . . → Read More: On the Kalendar: Louis IX, King of France, Confessor 
On the Kalendar is a series examining some of the lesser known feast days on the Kalendar. “August”, kalendar page from Les Petites Heures d’Anne de Bretagne (The Little Hours of Queen Anne of Bretagne), by the Maître des Triomphes de Pétrarque. From Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (France). Saint Hippolytus, who . . . → Read More: On the Kalendar: Saint Hippolytus
On the Kalendar is a series examining some of the lesser known feast days on the Kalendar. “August”, kalendar page from Les Petites Heures d’Anne de Bretagne (The Little Hours of Queen Anne of Bretagne), by the Maître des Triomphes de Pétrarque. From Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (France). In the early . . . → Read More: On the Kalendar: Saint Blane 
“On the Kalendar” is a series examining some of the lesser known feast days on the Kalendar. St. Peter Released from Prison, by Benjamin West (1738–1820). From Wikimedia. We start off On the Kalendar with a two-fer: There are two interesting feast days celebrated on August 1st. The first is Saint Peter . . . → Read More: On the Kalendar: Saint Peter in Chains and Lammas  Engraving of Lancelot Andrewes by Simon de Passe. From Wikimedia. Lancelot Andrewes was one of the great writers and churchmen of his day. Born in 1555, he received his Master of Arts degree at Cambridge in 1578. He was quite a polyglot, having mastered most of the languages of Western Europe. Andrewes . . . → Read More: Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester  
St Osmund was a Norman nobleman who accompanied William the Conqueror to England, where he was eventually consecrated second bishop of Salisbury (actually, Old Sarum). Osmund made a number of contributions to the early English church. First, he oversaw the construction of the Old Sarum cathedral, which was consecrated in 1092, fourteen years after . . . → Read More: St Osmund Augustine was the prior of a monastery in Rome when, in 595, Pope Gregory the Great sent him to Britain to Christianise one of the local kings. King Æthelberht of Kent was the target, probably because his Christian bride, Princess Bertha, daughter of Charibert I, King of Paris, was expected to encourage his conversion. . . . → Read More: St Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury |
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