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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 · 16 May 2025
Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
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Easter Time · White
Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Patron saints of the day
- Saint Brendan the Navigator — patron of sailors and seafarers
- Saint Honoré of Amiens — patron of bakers
The General Roman Calendar; tombs and patronages verified against Catholic sources. Local calendars may keep other saints today.
From the Fathers
The Fathers speak
The Church for his mother
The spouse of Christ cannot be adulterous; she is uncorrupted and pure. She knows one home; she guards with chaste modesty the sanctity of one couch. She keeps us for God. … He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.