Saints of December

In MySavior’s Saint of the Day calendar, each of the 31 days of December has its own saint or feast: 21 saints, 2 Blesseds, 2 popes and 6 feasts or commemorations. Each row links to the English Wikipedia article behind that day’s biography in the app.

December includes Saint Nicholas (December 6), the Immaculate Conception (December 8), Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12) and the Nativity of the Lord (December 25), followed by Saint Stephen (December 26), Saint John the Apostle (December 27) and the Holy Innocents (December 28).

SAINT OF THE DAYSaint Nicholas

Illustration: the widget on December 6

December, day by day

Saint of the day for each day of December in MySavior, with the Wikipedia article used for the biography
Day	Saint or feast in MySavior	Wikipedia article
Dec 1	Saint Edmund Campion	Edmund Campion
Dec 2	Blessed John of Ruusbroec	John of Ruusbroec
Dec 3	Saint Francis Xavier	Francis Xavier
Dec 4	Saint John of Damascus	John of Damascus
Dec 5	Saint Sabbas the Sanctified	Sabbas the Sanctified
Dec 6	Saint Nicholas	Saint Nicholas
Dec 7	Saint Ambrose	Ambrose
Dec 8	The Immaculate Conception	Immaculate Conception
Dec 9	Saint Juan Diego	Juan Diego
Dec 10	Our Lady of Loreto	Our Lady of Loreto
Dec 11	Pope Damasus I	Pope Damasus I
Dec 12	Our Lady of Guadalupe	Our Lady of Guadalupe
Dec 13	Saint Lucy	Saint Lucy
Dec 14	Saint John of the Cross	John of the Cross
Dec 15	Saint Mary di Rosa	Maria Crocifissa di Rosa
Dec 16	Saint Adelaide	Adelaide of Italy
Dec 17	Saint Lazarus	Lazarus of Bethany
Dec 18	Saint Flannan	Flannan
Dec 19	Blessed Pope Urban V	Pope Urban V
Dec 20	Saint Dominic of Silos	Dominic of Silos
Dec 21	Saint Peter Canisius	Peter Canisius
Dec 22	Saint Frances Xavier CabriniAlso listed on November 13	Frances Xavier Cabrini
Dec 23	Saint John of Kanty	John Cantius
Dec 24	Adam and Eve	Adam and Eve
Dec 25	The Nativity of the Lord	Christmas
Dec 26	Saint Stephen	Saint Stephen
Dec 27	Saint John the Apostle	John the Apostle
Dec 28	The Holy Innocents	Massacre of the Innocents
Dec 29	Saint Thomas Becket	Thomas Becket
Dec 30	Saint Egwin of Evesham	Ecgwine of Evesham
Dec 31	Pope Sylvester I	Pope Sylvester I

Notes on December

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini is listed twice, on November 13 and December 22. November 13 is her day in the United States, and December 22 is the anniversary of her death in 1917.

Names are shown exactly as the app shows them. The day-to-saint matching loosely follows the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church, with some United States dates, so a saint may fall on another day in your local calendar. How the days are chosen.

On your iPhone

Each day’s saint on your iPhone

MySavior’s Saint of the Day widget shows the entry for today’s date from this list: small on the Home Screen, or rectangular and inline on the Lock Screen. It changes at midnight, and a tap opens the saint’s biography in the app, whose Saints of the Day library also lists every month with today marked.

Questions and answers

How many saints are in December in the MySavior calendar?

Every day of December has one entry, 31 in all: 21 saints, 2 Blesseds, 2 popes and 6 feasts or commemorations.

Which feasts are in December?

The feasts and other commemorations in December are the Immaculate Conception (December 8), Our Lady of Loreto (December 10), Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12), Adam and Eve (December 24), the Nativity of the Lord (December 25) and the Holy Innocents (December 28).

Does the Saint of the Day widget follow this list in December?

Yes. This is the list the app itself uses: the widget shows the entry for today’s date and moves to the next at midnight. Tapping it opens a short biography taken from Wikipedia; the notes under the table name the days that share an article.

The saint of the day on your iPhone

MySavior’s Saint of the Day widget shows each day’s saint on your Home Screen or Lock Screen and changes at midnight. Tap it for the story. For iPhone with iOS 18.6 or later.

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