January Catholic Saints & Feast Days: Free Printable Calendar

Here you will find a printable calendar that includes the celebration dates of Catholic Saints on their Feast Days for the month of January 2024.

Let’s Celebrate the Saints together

I am a believer of the idea that there are lessons we can learn from the Saints about how to live holy lives. After all, a saint is a person in heaven. As Christians, we all strive to achieve the same goal and should seek to learn from those who have gone before us. My favorite way to learn about the lives of the saints is to recognize and observe feast days.

Every Saint who is beatified is assigned a feast day – often on the day of their death. A Feast day is a special day of celebration where the saint is remembered. We should recognize and honor their devotion to our Lord and how He worked through their lives to make an impact in our world.

“The ultimate object of veneration of the Saints is the glory of God and the sanctification of man by conforming one’s life fully to the divine will and by imitating the virtue of those who were preeminent disciples of the Lord.”
– Pope John Paul II (Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy)

Most Catholics who observe feast days identify this practice as part of liturgical living. If you were to ask me how to define Liturgical Living I would say that: Liturgical living is embracing a way of life that honors the sacred scripture of our Lord and brings the sacred traditions of the Catholic Church into our homes.

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Why should we observe feast days?

Implementing the observation of Feast Days is an easy first step to creating a strong foundation of faith in your home. This is because of several reasons. First, when we become attentive to Feast Days we are also becoming aware of the Liturgical seasons of the church and the traditions associated with those seasons.

Second, when we remember and honor a saint we typically read a story of their life. The stories of the saints reveal to us how ordinary people can do extraordinary things through the grace of God.

Lastly, the observation of feast days is an intentional act we must make. When we choose to focus our time and minds on our heavenly brothers and sisters we are also choosing to focus our time and minds on the Trinity. I have personally noticed that when I observe feast days I pray more and am reminded of God’s love and of Jesus’ sacrifice for me.

It is because of these three reasons that I recommend to anyone who desires to strengthen their home’s roots in the Catholic faith to begin observing Feast days. To make it even easier for you I have prepared a printable calendar that includes a celebration or feast for each day of the month. Before you dive headfirst into celebrating feast days – lets discuss where saint feast days come from and why they can vary by region.

Keep reading if you want to learn more about how Saint Feast days (and liturgical calendars) are decided! If you are just visiting to grab your free printable calendar – click here or scroll to the bottom of this post.

For more information on why Catholics celebrate the saints and some ways I recommend that you can implement this tradition in your home, check out my post here.

The Liturgical Calendar

The Catholic Church releases an official Liturgical Calendar that includes all the important information for the liturgical year. This information includes universally recognized feast days, holy days of obligation, mass readings, and days of prayer and special observances. The Liturgical calendar is generated from several sources, including:

The General Roman Calendar
Regional Proper Calendars

The General Roman Calendar was originally proclaimed in 1969 by Pope Saint Paul VI and is updated over time by the Holy See. The General Roman Calendar is the basic framework for all Liturgical Calendars of the Roman Rite. This is the information you will find published in the Roman Missal.

Regional Proper Calendars will vary by region. A Proper Calendar adds complementary feast days, and days of prayer and special observances to the ones recognized in the General Roman Calendar.

If you live in the United States, the U.S. Proper Calendar is promulgated by the Dioceses of the United States of America and can be found at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop’s (USCCB) website here.

My friend Dierdre at Kindling Wild has created a beautiful minimalist Liturgical calendar based on the Canadian Proper. You can find it at her blog post here.

How to use our Printable Calendar

Each month I share a free printable calendar that includes a celebration or feast for each day of the month. Now, I do not recommend that you try to celebrate every single day on this calendar! I think there is great wisdom in learning about the lives of the Saints. However, I also think it is important to be conservative about our approach.

When the Calendar for February 2024 is available, you can find the post linked here.

I want to remind you that this tradition is meant to help you stay focused on God, Prayer, and inspire you to live a holier life. We do not want to turn the practice of celebration of saints into an idol. I recommend you select 1-2 Saints or Feasts per week to learn about and celebrate.

I recommend you save and print this calendar out and display in a place that you can refer to often. For us, that is on our home altar next to our front door. I also recommend that if you have any books about the saints to keep them close to the calendar so each day you can read more about them

One of my favorite books about the saints to read with my kids is the Picture book of Saints by Lawrence Lovasik. (Amazon link)

Some additional features I have included on my calendar are:

Symbol to indicate days of abstinence and fasting
Symbol to indicate which saints have corresponding novenas
Symbol to indicate Holy Days of Obligation
A brief description of the monthly Catholic Devotion.

January Saints & Feast Days

The saints and feast days for the month of January 2024 are below.

Saints indicated on this list are from the General Roman Calendar, the US Proper Calendar (bold), or from other regional proper calendars (italicized).

January 1 – Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
January 2 – Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen (memorial)
January 3 – The Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus (Solemnity)
January 4 – Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
January 5 – Saint John Neumann
January 6 – Saint André Bessette
January 7 – The Epiphany* (Solemnity)
January 8 – The Baptism of the Lord* (Feast)
January 9 – Saint Adrian of Canturbury
January 10 – Servant of God Vico Necchi
January 11 – Blessed William Carter
January 12 – Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys
January 13 – Saint Hilary of Poitiers (Optional Memorial)
January 14 – Saint Felix of Nola
January 15 – Saint Paul the Hermit
January 16 – Saint Berard and Companions
January 17 – Memorial of Saint Anthony
January 18 – Saint Margaret of Hungary
January 19 – Saint Fillan
January 20 – Saint Sebastian (Optional Memorial)
January 21 – Saint Agnes (Memorial)
January 22 – Saint Vincent (optional Memorial)
January 23 – Memorial of Saint Marianne Cope
January 24 – Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales
January 25 – Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, the Apostle
January 26 – Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus
January 27 – Saint Angela Merici (Optional Memorial)
January 28 – Saint Thomas Aquinas (Memorial)
January 29 – Saint Sarbelius and Barbea
January 30 – Saint Hyacintha of Mariscotti
January 31 – Saint John Bosco (Memorial)

* The Epiphany is officially recognized on January 6. The Diocese of the United States elects to observe the solemnity on the nearest Sunday. In 2024 this falls on January 7. The Baptism of the Lord is celebrated on the following Monday instead of the usual Sunday due to the unique timing of Epiphany this year.

Download the January 2024 Calendar

To download the January 2024 Calendar, click the image above or the link below. This will to open a downloadable pdf in a new window.

Download the January 2024 Calendar Here

Happy feasting my friends! I hope you find joy as much in celebrating feast days and learning about the saints as I do. Lastly, I hope implementing this tradition inspires you and brings you closer to God every day.

Additional Posts about Celebrating the Saints

Here are some additional posts about Celebrating the Saints, Monthly Feast Days, and Catholic traditions associated with the saints.

Celebrating the Saints
January Feast Day Meal Plan
February Saints & Feast Day Calendar
Epiphany King Cake Recipe