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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 · 17 September 2025
Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
- ReadingA reading from the First Letter to Timothy 3:14-16
- GospelFrom the Gospel according to Luke 7:31-35
From Vatican News — Word of the Day, following the General Roman Calendar, with a commentary from the Popes. Where a feast is kept on another day in your country, your parish’s readings may differ.
Optional memorial · White
Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Also: Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
St Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church since 1931 · St Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church since 2012
Pray at their tomb
Hildegard of BingenSaint Hildegard parish church in Eibingen, Rüdesheim am Rhein
Robert BellarmineSant'Ignazio Church, Rome
The General Roman Calendar; tombs and patronages verified against Catholic sources. Local calendars may keep other saints today.
From the Fathers
The Fathers speak
A precious deposit
… that well-grounded system which tends to man’s salvation, namely, our faith; which, having been received from the Church, we do preserve, and which always, by the Spirit of God, renewing its youth, as if it were some precious deposit in an excellent vessel, causes the vessel itself containing it to renew its youth also.