Devotion, Days of

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 (2 February )

Saint Matthias (24 February )

Saint Gregory the Great (12 March )

Saint Joseph (19 March )

Annunciation (25 March )

Saint George (26 April )

Saints Philip and James (1 May )

Finding of the Cross (3 May )

Saint Augustine (27 May )

Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (24 June )

Saint James, Apostle (25 July )

Saint Anne (26 July )

Saint Lawrence (10 August )

Saint Bartholomew (24 August )

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (8 September )

Saint Matthew (21 September )

Saint Michael, Archangel (29 September )

Saints Simon and Jude (28 October )

Saint Andrew , Apostle (30 November )

Immaculate Conception (8 December )

Saint Thomas, Apostle (21 December )

Saint Stephen (26 December )

Saint John the Apostle (27 December )

Holy Innocents (28 December )

Saint Thomas of Canterbury (29 December )

Saint Silvester (31 December )

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