Optional memorial
Salesian Family Calendar
Liturgical memorials, anniversaries and feasts — one page per month.
- 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
† FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Feast
Saint Dominic Savio, youth (1857, Mondonio di Castelnuovo d'Asti, Italy)
Other observances
Anniversario dell'elezione di sua santità papa Leone XIV (2025).
Solemnity
† SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Feast
Saint Mary Domenica Mazzarello, virgin, co-foundress of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (1881, Nizza Monferrato, Italy)
Optional memorial
Our Lady of Fatima (1917, Fatima, Portugal)
Pentecost Novena novena begins
Optional memorial
Saint Louis Orione, priest and founder of the Little Works of Divine Providence (Orionini) and the Congregation of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity (1940, San Remo, Italy)
Mary Help of Christians novena begins
Solemnity
† SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER. THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD
World communications day (59th)
Optional memorial
Saint Leonard Murialdo, priest and founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph (Giuseppini del Murialdo) (1900, Turin, Italy)
Solemnity
† EIGHTH SUNDAY OF EASTER. PENTECOST SUNDAY
Solemnity
† MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS, principal patron of Society of St Francis de Sales, of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and of the Secular Institute of the Volunteers of Don Bosco (1571)
Day of Prayer for the Church in China
Optional memorial
Blessed Joseph Kowalski, SDB, priest, martyr (1942, Auschwitz, Poland)
Solemnity
