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How the days are chosen
Each day of the year is matched to one entry built into the app, so the list of names works offline and is the same every year. The matching loosely follows the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church; for lesser-known days, the choice is a best effort rather than an official assignment. In practice:
- Where the General Roman Calendar has a saint or feast on a date, the app usually uses it, such as Saint Francis of Assisi (October 4) or Saint Martin of Tours (November 11).
- Some days follow the calendar of the United States: Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (January 4), Saint Katharine Drexel (March 3), Saint Damien of Molokai (May 10) and Saint Junípero Serra (July 1).
- Days with no celebration in the General Roman Calendar carry other saints, Blesseds and popes, such as Saint Gildas (January 29) and Saint Piran (March 5).
- Feasts of the Lord and of Mary with a fixed date are included, such as the Annunciation (March 25), the Assumption of Mary (August 15) and the Nativity of the Lord (December 25). Moveable feasts such as Easter and Pentecost are not, because every entry is tied to a date; MySavior’s Christian Countdown counts down to those instead.
- The Annunciation stays on March 25 here every year, even in years when the Church moves it out of Holy Week or the Easter octave. The Christian Countdown, by contrast, follows the move.
Repeated saints and shared articles
The biography for each day comes from one Wikipedia article. A few days repeat a saint or share an article:
- Saint Camillus de Lellis (July 14) and Saint Camillus (July 18) are the same saint, listed twice. July 14 is his day in the General Roman Calendar and July 18 his day in the United States.
- 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.
- Four pairs of different feasts share one article, so the app shows the same biography on both days: Mary, Mother of God (January 1) and Queenship of Mary (August 22); Chair of Saint Peter (February 22) and Saints Peter and Paul (June 29); Saint Joseph (March 19) and Saint Joseph the Worker (May 1); Nativity of John the Baptist (June 24) and Beheading of John the Baptist (August 29).
- Eight feasts name more than one saint, and the biography comes from an article on one of them: Saints Timothy and Titus (January 26) uses “Saint Timothy”; Saints Philip and James (May 3) uses “Philip the Apostle”; Saints Peter and Paul (June 29) uses “Saint Peter”; Saints Joachim and Anne (July 26) uses “Saint Anne”; Saints Pontian and Hippolytus (August 13) uses “Pope Pontian”; Saints Cornelius and Cyprian (September 16) uses “Cyprian”; Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael (September 29) uses “Michael (archangel)”; Saints Simon and Jude (October 28) uses “Jude the Apostle”.
- For Saint Casimir (March 4), this page links the saint’s own article, Saint Casimir. On that day the app currently opens the article on his father, King Casimir IV Jagiellon instead.
- For Saint Maximilian of Tebessa (March 12), this page links the saint’s own article, Maximilian of Tebessa. On that day the app currently opens the page on the given name Maximilian instead.
The calendar is a devotional companion, not an official liturgical calendar. For the celebrations of your own country, diocese or religious order, follow their published calendar.
