Saints of November
Here are the saints the Church remembers on each day of November, with the rank of each celebration and one line about each saint for children. Saints with a story on this site are linked.
Feasts whose date changes each year are shown on their 2026 dates. Celebrations marked with a country are kept only there, or with a higher rank there.
1Sunday
All Saints’ Day
Solemnity
Today we celebrate everyone who is with God in heaven: the saints we know by name and the many we don’t.
2Monday
All Souls’ Day
Commemoration
We pray for everyone who has died, that God will welcome them home to heaven.
3Tuesday
Saint Martin de Porres
Optional memorial · Memorial in Mexico
A kind brother in Lima, Peru, who cared for the sick, the poor and even stray animals.
4Wednesday
Saint Charles Borromeo
Memorial
A bishop of Milan, Italy, who taught children the faith and cared for the sick during a terrible plague.
5Thursday
Saint Angela of the Cross
Optional memorial in Spain
A sister from Seville, in Spain, who lived as poor as the poor so she could serve them.
Saint Guido Maria Conforti
Roman Martyrology
An Italian bishop who started a family of missionaries to tell people far away about Jesus.
6Friday
Saints Pedro Poveda, Inocencio of the Immaculate and companions, martyrs
Memorial in Spain
Spanish priests, religious and lay people who gave their lives for Jesus in the 1930s.
Saint Leonard of Noblac
Roman Martyrology
An old story says this French hermit helped prisoners, so he became their patron saint.
7Saturday
Saint Willibrord
Roman Martyrology
A monk from England who sailed to the Netherlands to tell people about Jesus.
8Sunday
The Four Crowned Martyrs
Roman Martyrology
An old story says they were stonecutters in Rome who would not carve a statue of a false god.
9Monday
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Feast
We celebrate the Pope’s own cathedral in Rome, the mother of all churches.
10Tuesday
Saint Leo the Great
Memorial
A pope who bravely went out to meet Attila the Hun and asked him to spare the city of Rome.
11Wednesday
Saint Martin of Tours
Memorial
A Roman soldier who cut his cloak in half to share it with a cold beggar.
12Thursday
Saint Josaphat
Memorial
A bishop in Eastern Europe who worked hard to bring Christians together, and gave his life for it.
13Friday
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
Memorial in the USA
An Italian sister who crossed the ocean to care for immigrant children in America.
Saint Leander of Seville
Optional memorial in Spain
A bishop of Seville who helped the Visigoth people of Spain become Catholic.
14Saturday
Saint Lawrence O’Toole
Roman Martyrology
An archbishop of Dublin who fed the hungry and worked for peace in Ireland.
15Sunday
Saint Albert the Great
Optional memorial
A teacher who loved studying plants, animals and stars, and taught Saint Thomas Aquinas.
16Monday
Saint Margaret of Scotland
Optional memorial
A queen who fed the poor at her own table every day.
Saint Gertrude the Great
Optional memorial
A German nun who wrote about how much Jesus loves us.
17Tuesday
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Memorial
A princess who built a hospital and cared for the sick and the poor with her own hands.
18Wednesday
The Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul
Optional memorial
We celebrate the two great churches in Rome built over the tombs of Peter and Paul.
Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
Optional memorial in the USA
A French sister who opened schools in America; the Potawatomi called her “the woman who always prays.”
19Thursday
Saint Obadiah, prophet
Roman Martyrology
A prophet whose book is the shortest in the Old Testament: just one chapter.
20Friday
Saint Edmund of East Anglia
Roman Martyrology
A young king in England who would not give up his faith in Jesus.
21Saturday
The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Memorial
An old tradition says that Mary, as a little girl, was brought to the Temple to belong to God.
22Sunday
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Solemnity
Jesus is the King of heaven and earth, a king who rules with love and serves everyone.
23Monday
Saint Clement I
Optional memorial
One of the first popes after Saint Peter, who wrote a letter to help Christians live in peace.
Saint Columban
Optional memorial
An Irish monk who traveled across Europe starting monasteries.
Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro
Optional memorial in Mexico and the USA
A brave Mexican priest who served people in secret; his last words were “¡Viva Cristo Rey!”
24Tuesday
Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and companions
Memorial
117 martyrs of Vietnam, priests, catechists and families, who stayed faithful to Jesus.
25Wednesday
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Optional memorial
An old story says this wise young woman answered the emperor’s scholars with the truth about Jesus.
26Thursday
Saint Leonard of Port Maurice
Roman Martyrology
An Italian friar who helped spread the Stations of the Cross, setting them up in hundreds of places.
27Friday
Saint Virgil of Salzburg
Roman Martyrology
An Irish monk who became bishop of Salzburg, in Austria, and loved studying the earth and the sky.
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Tradition
Mary showed Saint Catherine Labouré a medal for everyone to wear as a little sign of her love.
28Saturday
Saint James of the Marches
Roman Martyrology
An Italian friar who walked from town to town preaching about Jesus for more than 40 years.
29Sunday
Saint Saturninus of Toulouse
Roman Martyrology
The first bishop of Toulouse, in France; the city of Pamplona, in Spain, keeps him as its patron.
30Monday
Saint Andrew the Apostle
Feast
A fisherman who was one of the first to follow Jesus, and who brought his brother Peter to meet him.
Saints calendar
Every day’s saints, month by month, with a line about each one for children.