Saints of 20 January
The feast, the saints of the day, and the Roman Martyrology for 20 January.
Feasts in 2026
Tuesday 20 January 2026.
- Ordinary Form: St Fabian. Optional memorial, red. Also kept: St Sebastian.
- 1962 calendar: Ss. Fabian and Sebastian, Martyrs. Third class, white.
Feasts that depend on the date of Easter fall on a different day each year.
Saints of the day
- St Fabian. Pope and martyr.
- St Sebastian. Roman soldier and martyr.
Roman Martyrology
St Fabian, pope (Rome)
At Rome, the birthday of St. Fabian, pope, who suffered martyrdom in the time of Decius, and was buried in the cemetery of Callistus.
St Sebastian, martyr
In the same place, in the catacombs, the martyr St. Sebastian. He was commander of the first cohort, under the emperor Diocletian, but for professing Christianity he was bound to a tree in the centre of a vast field, shot with arrows by the soldiers, and beaten with clubs until he expired.
St Neophytus of Nicaea
At Nicaea, in Bithynia, St. Neophytus, martyr, who, in the fifteenth year of his age, was scourged, cast into a furnace, and exposed to wild beasts; as he remained uninjured, and constantly confessed the faith of Christ, he was at last killed with the sword.
St Maurus of Cesena
At Cesena, St. Maurus, bishop, renowned for virtues and miracles.
St Euthymius the Great
In Palestine, in the time of the emperor Marcian, the birthday of St. Euthymius, abbot, who adorned the Church by his zeal for Catholic discipline, and the gift of miracles.
From the 1916 English edition of the Roman Martyrology, which is in the public domain. Saints canonised since then are added with a short note.
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