Overview

• The Catholic liturgical calendar assigns each day to saints whose lives of faith and sacrifice guide observances worldwide.
• San Lorenzo de Brindisi was a 16th-century Capuchin friar, multilingual theologian and papal diplomat who was canonized in 1881 and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1959.
• Santa Práxedes, a 2nd-century Roman virgin, sheltered persecuted Christians and founded a domus ecclesiae that later became a basilica preserving her relics.
• The onomástica custom, rooted in medieval Spain, links personal names to saints’ feast days, merging individual identity with the Church’s calendar.
• Originating in medieval Spain, the fixed-date feast day tradition has evolved into a global practice of daily saint commemorations.