October 1
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus
Doctor of the Church and saint of the shower of roses
Saints of October
October 2
Holy Guardian Angels
Who they are, what they do and what help your guardian angel gives
October 4
Saint Francis of Assisi
Founder of the Friars Minor, Author of the Canticle of Brother Sun
October 5
Saint Faustina Kowalska
The Polish Nun Who Gave the World the Divine Mercy Chaplet
October 6
Saint Bruno of Cologne
The Founder of the Carthusians Who Chose a Desert Over a Mitre
October 7
Our Lady of the Rosary
The Feast Born of the Rosary Prayed in Rome on Lepanto Day
October 9
John Henry Newman
The Anglican who left Oxford and became a Doctor of the Church
October 11
John XXIII
Good Pope John, the sharecropper's son who opened the Second Vatican Council
October 12
Our Lady of the Pillar
The Column Zaragoza Says Mary Left to the Apostle Saint James
October 14
Pope Saint Callistus I
The Slave Who Became Bishop of Rome, Pope of the Catacombs
October 15
Saint Teresa of Jesus
Founder of Discalced Carmel and author of The Interior Castle
October 16
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
The saint who asked for the feast of the Sacred Heart
October 17
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
The chained bishop who first called the Church "Catholic"
October 18
Saint Luke the Evangelist
Paul's beloved physician, who wrote the third Gospel and Acts
October 19
Saint Peter of Alcantara
The barefoot friar who guided Teresa of Ávila in prayer
October 21
Laura Montoya
The first Colombian saint, mother of the Indigenous peoples of the jungle
October 22
John Paul II
The Pope who forgave the man who shot him in Saint Peter's Square
October 24
missionary on foot, archbishop of Cuba and confessor to Isabella II
Anthony Mary Claret
October 26
the doctor of the poor who became Brother Marcelo at Farneta
José Gregorio Hernández
Day by day
- 1Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus
- 2Holy Guardian Angels
- 3Saint Theodora Guérin
- 4Saint Francis of Assisi
- 5Saint Faustina Kowalska
- 6Saint Bruno of Cologne
- 7Our Lady of the Rosary
- 8Saint John Calabria
- 9John Henry Newman
- 10Saint Daniel Comboni
- 11John XXIII
- 12Our Lady of the Pillar
- 13Saint Edward the Confessor
- 14Pope Saint Callistus I
- 15Saint Teresa of Jesus
- 16Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
- 17Saint Ignatius of Antioch
- 18Saint Luke the Evangelist
- 19Saint Peter of Alcantara
- 20Saint Maria Bertilla Boscardin
- 21Laura Montoya
- 22John Paul II
- 23Saint John of Capistrano
- 24missionary on foot, archbishop of Cuba and confessor to Isabella II
- 25Saints Crispin and Crispinian
- 26the doctor of the poor who became Brother Marcelo at Farneta
- 27Saint Frumentius of Aksum
- 28Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles
- 29Saint Gaetano Errico
- 30Saint Angelo of Acri
- 31Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg
