Saints of 18 October
The feast, the saints of the day, and the Roman Martyrology for 18 October.
Feasts in 2026
Sunday 18 October 2026.
- Ordinary Form: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Feast, green. Also kept: St Luke the Evangelist.
- 1962 calendar: Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost. Second class, green. Also kept: St. Luke the Evangelist.
Feasts that depend on the date of Easter fall on a different day each year.
Saints of the day
- St Luke the Evangelist. The 'beloved physician'.
Roman Martyrology
St Luke
The birthday of blessed Luke, evangelist, who, after having suffered much for the name of Christ, died in Bithynia, filled with the Holy Ghost. 21 His relics were taken to Constantinople, and thence conveyed to Padua.
St Asclepiades of Antioch
At Antioch, St. Asclepiades, bishop, one of the celebrated troop of martyrs who suffered gloriously under Macrinus.
St Justus, martyr
In the diocese of Beauvais, St. Justus, martyr, who, being but a boy, was put to death in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Rictiovarus.
St Athenodorus of Neocaesarea
At Neocaesarea, in Pontus, the holy and learned bishop Athenodorus, brother of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, who underwent martyrdom in the persecution of Aurelian.
St Julian of Mesopotamia
In Mesopotamia, on the bank of the Euphrates, St. Julian, hermit.
St Paul (Rome)
At Rome, the birthday of St. Paul of the Cross, confessor, founder of the Congregation of the Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, whom Pius IX. canonized on account of his remarkable innocence of life and his penitential spirit, assigning the 28th of April as the day of his festival.
St Tryphonia of Rome
At Rome, St. Tryphonia, at one time wife of the Caesar Decius. She was buried in a crypt, near St. Hippolytus.
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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