Memorial of Saints (October 31)

Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints

• Wolfgang
• Foillan
• Quentin

St. Wolfgang became a Benedictine at Einsiedeln and was ordained in 971 A.D.

St. Follian and his brothers built a monastery in England and worked as missionaries among the East Angles.

St. Quentin went to Gaul as a missionary and settled at Amiens in Picardy.

Learn more

This day in Catholic Church history (October 31).

• Martin Luther, former monk of the Augustinian Order, posted his 95 Theses on the door of the castle Church in Wittenberg
• These theses questioned the abuses in the sale of indulgences at that time
• October 31, 1517 A.D., is traditionally recognized as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation

• Voices of the Protestant Reformation:
• Martin Luther,
• John Huss,
• Erasmus,
• Servetus,
• Zwingli,
• and Calvin
• Voices of the Counter-Reformation:
• St. Teresa of Avila,
• St. John of the Cross,
• St. Ignatius of Loyola,
• St. Bernardine of Siena,
• St. John of Capistrano,
• Benedictines of Bursfeld and Melk Congregations
• the Dominican Lombard Congregation;
• and many Augustinian monasteries
• Learn more

• Saints and Leaders of the Counter Reformation, Learn more