Optional Memorial
Most Holy Name of Jesus
- Feast day
- January 03
Life
This celebration honors the Holy Name of Jesus, the name the angel instructed Mary and Joseph to give the child, meaning God saves. Devotion to the Holy Name flourished in the Middle Ages and was spread with great zeal by Saint Bernardine of Siena in the fifteenth century. The optional memorial was restored to the Roman calendar in 2002.
The saint of the day, every day
Bosko shows you the saint the Church honors today, every day — their story, today's feast, and where they fall in your tradition's liturgical calendar, so a feast that matters to you never quietly slips past.