spring FEASTS AND DEVOTIONS

Also called “Lady Day”, it was this day on which Gabriel announced that Our Lord would enter the world. 

Little is known about St. George, but he has been venerated widely and has had an outsized effect on history.

Traditional days of prayer and fasting, taking place on April 25th and the three days before the feast of the Ascension.

Not on the modern liturgical calendars, the feast and its eve (Walpurgisnacht) is a great holiday in many European countries.

The feast of St. Joseph the Worker, established by Pope Pius XII in 1955, gives all workmen a model and a protector.

The Blessed Mother is venerated under this title following apparitions to three shepherd children in Portugal in 1917.

Dymphna was born in the 8th century in Ireland to a pagan king whose wife became a Christian. She was murdered by her own father.

St. Rita’s childbirth was surrounded by miraculous events. She was a holy and devout Augustinian sister who died in 1457.

On October 11, 1954, Pius XII granted the desire of the faithful and instituted the feast of the Queenship of Mary.

St. Anthony is patron of sailors, pregnant women, amputees, fishermen, and the poor. He is invoked to find lost objects.