Saints of 5 September
The feast, the saints of the day, and the Roman Martyrology for 5 September.
Feasts in 2026
Saturday 5 September 2026.
- Ordinary Form: St Teresa of Calcutta. Optional memorial, white.
- 1962 calendar: St. Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor. Third class, white.
Feasts that depend on the date of Easter fall on a different day each year.
Saints of the day
- St Teresa of Calcutta. Servant of the poorest of the poor.
Roman Martyrology
St Lawrence Justinian
The feast of St. Lawrence Justinian, first Patriarch of Venice, who, by glorious miracles and virtues, illustrated the episcopal dignity which he received against his will on this day. His birthday is the 8th of January.
St Victorinus, bishop and martyr
In the suburbs of Rome, blessed Victorinus, bishop and martyr, in the time of Nerva Trajan. Being renowned for sanctity and miracles, he was elected bishop of Amiterno by the whole people, but afterwards he was banished, with other servants of God, to Contigliano, where spring forth fetid sulphurous waters, and was suspended with his head downward by order of the judge Aurelian. Having for the name of Christ endured this torment for three days, he was gloriously crowned, and went victoriously to our Lord. His body was taken away by the Christians, and buried with due honors at Araiterno.
St Her
Also, at Porto, the birthday of St. Her cul anus, martyr.
Ss. Quinctius, Arcontius, and Donatus
At Capua, the holy martyrs Quinctius, Arcontius, and Donatus.
St Romulus, prefect of Trajan's court
The same day, St. Romulus, prefect of Trajan's court. For reproving the cruelty of the emperor towards Christians, he was scourged with rods, and beheaded.
Ss. Eudoxius, Zeno, Macarius, and companions, martyrs (Melitene)
At Melitine, in Armenia, the martyrdom of the holy soldiers Eudoxius, Zeno, Macarius, and their companions to the number of eleven hundred and four, who threw away their military belts, and were put to death for the confession of Christ, in the persecution of Diocletian.
Ss. Urbanus, Theodore, Menedemus
At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Urbanus, Theodore, Menedemus, and their ecclesiastical companions, seventy-seven in number, who were put in a ship by the command of the emperor Valens, and burned on the sea for the Catholic faith.
St Bertin, abbot
In the neighborhood of Terouanne, in the monastery of Sithiu, St. Bertin, abbot.
St Obdulia of Toledo
At Toledo, St. Obdulia, virgin.
St Teresa of Calcutta
At Calcutta, St Teresa, virgin, foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, mother to the poorest of the poor. Canonised 2016.
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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