Overview
- For Saturday, November 8, 2025, the calendar highlights San Adeodato I, a seventh‑century pope credited as the first to use the pontifical seal depicting the Good Shepherd with the alpha and omega.
- The listing also remembers John Duns Scotus, a Franciscan priest and medieval scholar who taught at Oxford and Paris and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1993.
- Additional commemorations include San Claro of Tours, San Godofredo of Amiens, San Wilehado of Bremen, Blessed Isaiah Boner, and Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity.
- The entry explains onomástica as the saint’s feast day associated with a person’s name, historically tied to naming practices at birth or baptism.
- The piece situates the practice within long‑standing Spanish Christian tradition that assigns a saint or blessed to each day of the year.