Bible Dictionaries
Days of Devotion

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

Days which were formerly holydays of obligation and are now kept with some solemnity. In Great Britain they are:

• Easter Monday
• Easter Tuesday
• Whit Monday
• Whit Tuesday
• Purification of Blessed Virgin Mary (February 2,)
• Saint Matthias (February 24,)
• Saint Gregory the Great (March 12,)
• Saint Joseph (March 19,)
• Annunciation (March 25,)
• Saint George (April 26,)
• Saints Philip and James (May 1,)
• Finding of the Cross (May 3,)
• Saint Augustine (May 27,)
• Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (June 24,)
• Saint James, Apostle (July 25,)
• Saint Anne (July 26,)
• Saint Lawrence (August 10,)
• Saint Bartholomew (August 24,)
• Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (September 8,)
• Saint Matthew (September 21,)
• Saint Michael, Archangel (September 29,)
• Saints Simon and Jude (October 28,)
• Saint Andrew, Apostle (November 30,)
• Immaculate Conception (December 8,)
• Saint Thomas, Apostle (December 21,)
• Saint Stephen (December 26,)
• Saint John the Apostle (December 27,)
• Holy Innocents (December 28,)
• Saint Thomas of Canterbury (December 29,)
• Saint Silvester (December 31,)

They are the same in Ireland, excepting that the Immaculate Conception is a holyday of obligation.