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Saint of the Day
The feast the whole Church keeps today, the saints you can visit at their tomb, and what they are patrons of.
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The readings at Mass · 9 October 2024
Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs
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Optional memorial · Red
Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs
Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Also: Saint John Leonardi, Priest · Saint John Henry Newman, Priest and Doctor of the Church
St John Henry Newman, Doctor of the Church since 2025
Patron saints of the day
- Saint Denis — patron of France
The General Roman Calendar; tombs and patronages verified against Catholic sources. Local calendars may keep other saints today.
From the Fathers
The Fathers speak
When we call God Father
We ought then, beloved brethren, to remember and to know, that when we call God Father, we ought to act as God’s children; so that in the measure in which we find pleasure in considering God as a Father, He might also be able to find pleasure in us. Let us converse as temples of God, that it may be plain that God dwells in us.