Salesian Family Calendar

Liturgical memorials, anniversaries and feasts — one page per month.

January 2026

  • Solemnity
  • Feast
  • Memorial
  • Optional memorial

In square brackets […]: celebrations that may vary from one country to another, depending on the established norms of the local authorities.

Solemnity

† SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

World Day of Peace (58th)

Solemnity

† SECOND SUNDAY after Christmas [THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD]

Solemnity

† THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD

World Missionary Children's Day

Memorial

Blessed Titus Zeman, SDB, priest and martyr (1969, Bratislava, Czech - Slovakia)

Solemnity

† THIRD SUNDAY after Christmas. THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD

Memorial

Blessed Louis Variara, SDB, priest and founder of the Institute of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (1923, Cùcuta, Colombia)

Solemnity

† SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18-25)

Optional memorial

Blessed Laura Vicuña, youth (1904, Junín de los Andes, Argentina)

Saint John Bosco novena begins

Feast

Saint Francis de Sales, bishop of Geneva and doctor of the Church, Titular and Patron of the Society of St. Francis de Sales and founder of the Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary (Visitandines) (1622, Lyons); co-patron of the Salesians Don Bosco Congregation

Solemnity

† THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME. SUNDAY OF THE WORD OF GOD

73rd World Leprosy Day

Optional memorial

Blessed Bronislaw Markiewicz, priest and Founder of the Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Sisters of Saint Michael the Archangel (1912, Miejsce Piastowe, Poland)

Solemnity

† SAINT JOHN BOSCO, priest and founder of the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (Salesians of Don Bosco), the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and of the Salesian Cooperators (1888, Turin, Italy)