The fifth day of August.
Events[]
Births[]
Deaths[]
- 1579: Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
- 1633: George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
Feast Days[]
Roman Catholicism[]
Liturgical observances[]
- Abel of Reims (died 750)
- Addai
- Saint Afra, martyr [Augsburg (rare)]
- Saint Afra and companions, virgins, martyrs [France]
- Saint Cassianus, bishop of Autun, confessor [France]
- Saint Dominic, confessor [medieval date, in Paris; nowadays August 4]
- Saint Emygdius, martyr, bishop of Ascoli Piceno
- Saint Fredulph, confessor [Saintes]
- Saint Jonius, priest, martyr [Paris]
- Feast of Mary "ad nives"; Dedication of Santa Maria Maggiore bin Rome [common]
- Saint Memmius, bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, confessor [Metz, France; Paris, as Menge]
- Saint Ormisdas, pope, confessor [Bamberg]
- Saint Oswald of Northumbria, king, martyr [common; England] (died 642)
- Saint Sixtus II, pope [Paris]
- Saint Venantius, bishop of Viviers [Viviers]
- Saint Nonna of Nianza