The sixteenth day of August.
Events[]
Births[]
Deaths[]
- 1327. Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
- 1661. Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (b. 1608)
- 2005. Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
Feast days[]
Roman Catholicism[]
- Saint Arnulph, bishop of Metz, Soissons, confessor [common]
- Saint Balsemius, martyr [Troyes]
- Translation ('vorheving') of Saint Bernward, bishop of Hildesheim, (deposition alse he starff) [Hildesheim]
- Translation of Saint Brinolph, bishop of Skara [Skara]
- Saint Eonius, bishop of Arles [Arles]
- Saint Frambald, abbot, confessor [Senlis]
- Saint Hyacinth, confessor [Dominicans]
- Translation of Saint Maurilius, bishop of Angers, confessor [Angers]
- Saint Audomar, bishop of Thérouanne [Paris]
- Saint Roch, confessor (helps against plague and skin diseases), patron saint of pilgrims, plague victims, and dogs
- Saint Simplician, bishop
- Saint Stephen I of Hungary
- Saint Anne, Mother of Mary [Münster, Osnabrück]
Orthodox Christianity[]
- Commemoration of the translation of the Acheiropoietos icon which means "Not made by hands", (also known as the Mandelion; now lost) from Edessa to Constantinople in 944