Sacred Calendar
The Roman year ordered for memory, penance, feasts, saints, and the daily pilgrimage of the faithful.
Calendar standard
Pre-1955 Roman usage
The calendar follows the universal Roman year under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X, with the Roman Martyrology preserved as a distinct daily witness.
The day is presented for prayer, recollection, study, and perseverance in the City.
Daily observance
Today in the City of God
The Church keeps this day in holy time. The Pilgrim's Companion gathers the feast, daily quote, Martyrology, meditation, prayer, and related chapters into one daily path through the City.
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Daily observance
St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr
Saturday, November 14, 2026
Season: Time after Pentecost
The day is set within the Roman year so its feast, Martyrology, daily quote, prayer, and reading path may be received together without blurring their proper sources.
Today's pilgrimage
St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr
Rank: Double
Color: red
Quote for the day
Catechism of the Council of Trent
“Fasting is most intimately connected with prayer.”
Roman Martyrology
Roman Martyrology - November 14
The festival of St. Josaphat, bishop and martyr, — At Heraclea, in Thrace, the birthday of the holy martyrs Clementinus, Theodotus and Philomenus. — At Alexandria, St. Serapion, martyr, whom the persecutors, under the emperor Decius, subjected to torments so cruel that all his limbs were disjointed. He became a martyr of Christ by being hurled down from the upper part of his house. — At Troyes, in France, St. Venerandus, martyr, under the emperor Aurelian. — Also, in France, the holy virgin Veneranda, who received the crown of martyrdom under the emperor Antoninus and the governor Asclepiades. — At Gangres, in Paphlagonia, St. Hypatius, bishop? who on his way home from the great council of Nice, was attacked with stones by the Novatian heretics, and died a martyr. — At Algiers, in Africa, blessed Serapion, of the Order of Our Blessed Lady of Ransom. For the redemption of the faithful in captivity and the preaching of the Christian faith, he was the first of his Order to deserve the palm of martyrdom by being crucified and cut to pieces. — At Emesa, the passion of many holy women, who were barbarously tortured and massacred under Mady, a savage Arabian chief. — At Bologna, St. Jucundus, bishop and confessor. — In Ireland, St. Lawrence, bishop of Dublin.
Highlighted saint
St. Josaphat
Bishop and martyr for Catholic unity and truth.
The Martyrology commemorates St. Josaphat as bishop and martyr, and elsewhere records his murder by schismatics through hatred of Catholic unity and truth.
His feast teaches that unity is not a mood of friendliness, but communion in true faith, lawful order, and sacramental life.
Virtue to practice
Zeal for Catholic unity.
Error to resist
The false ecumenism that seeks unity by hiding doctrine and dissolving truth.
For the pilgrim in exile
Ask St. Josaphat for charity that does not betray truth. Catholic unity is worth suffering for because souls are worth saving.
Imitate today
- Pray for return to Catholic unity.
- Reject false peace without becoming bitter.
- Defend unity as truth, not sentiment.
Sources
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, November 14.
- Roman Martyrology, 1916 Baltimore edition, November 14.
Breviary Witness
Unity loved unto blood.
Matins - St. Josaphat
Breviary witness
- The traditional remembrance of St. Josaphat honors a bishop and martyr for Catholic unity and truth.
- His witness refuses counterfeit unity, teaching that charity must seek communion in the true faith rather than peace built on silence.
For the pilgrim in exile
Love unity as Catholics mean it: truth, worship, order, and charity together. Peace without truth does not save.
Sources
- Roman Breviary, Matins lessons for November 14, St. Josaphat.
- Roman Martyrology, 1916 Baltimore edition, November 14.
Meditation
Growth After Pentecost
In the Time after Pentecost, the Church sends the faithful back into daily labor under the light of the Holy Ghost. The soul must not seek fire as excitement only. It must seek the fire that purifies speech, strengthens duty, exposes false peace, and keeps the Church's received worship dear.
Related paths
Walk the day through the City.
Today's chapters
Read with the feast.
Prayer
The day should become prayer.
O Lord, do not let me seek more knowledge while neglecting known duty. Make me prompt, recollected, humble, and faithful to grace.
Thought for the pilgrim
The illuminative way asks whether the soul obeyed the light already given.
Practice
The day should become obedience.
Ask what light God has already given you, then obey it in one visible act.
Source notes
Universal Roman Calendar under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X
Fasting and abstinence according to the laws observed in 1952
Daily quotations and pilgrimage excerpts should come from Scripture, Fathers, Doctors, saints, traditional popes before 1958, traditional catechisms, approved devotional works, or received liturgical texts.
The Roman Martyrology, Baltimore, 1916, published by John Murphy Company; the local 1916 text is displayed and traceable to its source lines.
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, Liturgical Calendar, pp. xvii–xxviii.