Overview
- The Catholic calendar for Sunday, December 7, 2025, highlights St. Ambrose of Milan as the principal feast.
- Ambrose is portrayed as a pivotal 4th‑century bishop who guided St. Augustine, advanced liturgy including ambrosian hymnody, and confronted imperial power in the wake of the Thessalonica massacre under Theodosius.
- The santoral also recalls St. Charles Garnier, a 17th‑century French Jesuit who lived among Huron and Petun communities in New France and was killed in 1649 during an Iroquois raid.
- Additional commemorations include Antenodoro of Syria, Antonio of Siya, Fara of Eboricacum, John the Silent, María Josefa Rossello, Martín Cid, Sabinus of Spoleto, and Urban of Teano.
- The coverage explains the onomástica practice that links personal name days to saints’ feasts and traces the custom to longstanding Christian tradition in Spain.