/u/Menter33's posts in /r/Catholicism
August 5 – Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major (Santa Maria Maggiore) – The basilica is also called Our Lady of the Snows from a story where Pope Liberius caused the building of the basilica on a place where snow fell.
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August 4 – Feast of John Mary Vianney (Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney) – The Cure d’Ars, patron saint of parish priests – After missteps early in his life, he was able to turn his fortune around, turning his local church to a pilgrimage site.
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August 1 – Feast of Peter in Chains (Peter ad Vincula, Liberation of Peter) – This feast commemorates Peter’s escape from prison.
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August 2 – Feast of Stephen the First (Stephen I) – Pope from 254-7 – He was one of the first popes to use Matthew 16:18 to argue for the pope's universal jurisdiction over the church, even in non-Roman dioceses.
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August 7 – Feast of Sixtus II and the Deacons of Rome – Pope from 257-8 – He softened the stance of his predecessor, St Stephen I, whose stance against the rebaptism of heretics, displeased St Cyprian of Carthage and the Eastern bishops.
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August 3 – Feast of Waltheof (Walden of Melrose) – Abbot of Melrose Abbey (image shown) – After English court politics prevented him from assuming a bishopric, he was elected to an abbey instead.
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