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Saints’ Meditations · Anglican & Anglo-Catholic Tradition
According to the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the People’s Anglican Missal
Symbol Key
☧ Feasts of Our Lord (Chi-Rho)
✦ Feasts of Our Lady & General Feasts
✠ Celtic Saints (Celtic Cross)
✝ Martyrs (Latin Cross)
✝✦ Apostles
✞ Bishops & Archbishops
Ψ Doctors & Theologians
✑ Evangelists
★ Mystics
✿ Abbots & Abbesses
◆ Confessors
❁ Virgin Martyrs
Liturgical Colour Key
■ Gold
■ Red
■ Sarum Blue
■ Green
■ Violet
■ White/Ivory
Series I — The Northumbrian & Celtic Tradition
Nine meditations · 563–1735 · Celtic Saints marked ✠
| Sym | Date | Saint(s) | Title / Role | Season |
| ✿ | 12 Jan | Benedict Biscop | Abbot & Confessor | Epiphany |
| ✠ | 20 Mar | Cuthbert of Lindisfarne | Bishop & Confessor · Celtic | Lent |
| Ψ | 27 May | The Venerable Bede | Priest, Confessor & Doctor | Eastertide / Trinity |
| ✠ | 9 Jun | Columba of Iona | Abbot, Confessor & Apostle of Scotland | Trinity |
| ✝ | 5 Aug | Oswald of Northumbria | King & Martyr | Trinity |
| ✠ | 31 Aug | Aidan of Lindisfarne | Bishop & Confessor · Apostle | Trinity |
| ✞ | 19 Sep | Theodore & Hadrian | Archbishop & Abbot | Trinity |
| ✝ | 12 Oct | Edwin of Northumbria | King & Martyr | Trinity |
| ✠ | 17 Nov | Hild of Whitby | Abbess & Foundress | Trinity / Advent |
Series II — The Patristic Tradition
Seven meditations covering sixteen Fathers · 107–749
| Sym | Date | Saint(s) | Title / Role | Season |
| ✝ | 23 Feb / 17 Oct | Ignatius of Antioch & Polycarp of Smyrna | Bishops & Martyrs · Last Links to the Apostles | Gesimas / Trinity |
| ✝ | 1 Jun / 28 Jun | Justin Martyr & Irenaeus of Lyon | Philosopher, Bishop & Martyrs | Trinity |
| ✝ | 2 May / 16 Sep | Cyprian of Carthage & Athanasius of Alexandria | Bishops & Martyrs · African Fathers | Eastertide / Trinity |
| ✞ | 2 Jan | Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus & Gregory of Nyssa | Bishops & Doctors · Cappadocian Fathers | Christmas / Epiphany |
| ✞ | 27 Jan / 27 Jun | John Chrysostom & Cyril of Alexandria | Archbishop & Bishop · Doctors | Epiphany / Trinity |
| ✞ | 13 Jan / 30 Sep / 10 Nov | Hilary, Jerome & Leo the Great | Bishops, Priest & Doctors · Latin Doctors | Epiphany / Trinity / Advent |
| Ψ | 4 Dec | John of Damascus | Priest, Confessor & Doctor · Last Greek Father | Advent |
Series III — The Medieval Period
Six meditations · 1033–1471
| Sym | Date | Saint(s) | Title / Role | Season |
| ✞ | 21 Apr / 20 Aug | Anselm of Canterbury & Bernard of Clairvaux | Archbishop & Abbot · Doctors | Eastertide / Trinity |
| ◆ | 8 Aug / 4 Oct | Francis of Assisi & Dominic of Osma | Friars & Confessors · Founders of Mendicant Orders | Trinity |
| Ψ | 28 Jan / 15 Jul | Thomas Aquinas & Bonaventure | Priests & Doctors · Angelic & Seraphic Doctors | Epiphany / Trinity |
| ★ | 20 Jan / 24 Mar | Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton & Cloud-Author | Hermit, Canon & Anonymous Master · English Mystics | Epiphany / Lent |
| ◆ | 24 Jul | Thomas à Kempis | Canon Regular & Confessor · Imitation of Christ | Trinity |
| ✝ | 29 Apr / 29 Dec | Catherine of Siena & Thomas Becket | Mystic & Archbishop · Martyrs of the Western Church | Eastertide / Christmastide |
Series IV — The Heart of Anglicanism
Six meditations · 1536–1882
| Sym | Date | Saint(s) | Title / Role | Season |
| ✝ | 21 Mar / 16 Oct | Cranmer, Latimer & Ridley | Archbishop & Bishops · Oxford Martyrs | Lent / Trinity |
| ✝ | 6 Oct | William Tyndale | Priest, Translator & Martyr | Trinity |
| ✞ | 25 Sep / 3 Nov | Richard Hooker & Lancelot Andrewes | Priests & Bishops · Doctors of the Anglican Church | Trinity |
| ✑ | 31 Mar / 27 Feb | John Donne & George Herbert | Priests & Poets · Caroline Poet-Divines | Gesimas / Lent |
| ✞ | 19 Mar / 13 Aug | Thomas Ken & Jeremy Taylor | Bishops & Confessors · The Pastoral Tradition | Lent / Trinity |
| ◆ | 29 Mar / 16 Sep | John Keble & Edward Bouverie Pusey | Priests & Confessors · Oxford Movement | Lent / Trinity |
Series V — Our Lord & His Apostles
Twenty-two meditations · The Apostolic and Dominical Feasts
| Sym | Date | Saint(s) | Title / Role | Season |
| ☧ | 1 Jan | Circumcision & Holy Name | Principal Feast · The Octave of Christmas | Christmastide |
| ☧ | 2 Feb | Purification / Candlemas | Principal Feast · The Fortieth Day | Epiphany |
| ✝ | 24 Feb | Saint Matthias | Apostle & Martyr · The Completion of the Twelve | Gesimas |
| ☧ | 25 Mar | The Annunciation | Principal Feast · The Incarnation Begins | Lent / Gesimas |
| ✝ | 25 Apr | Saint Mark | Evangelist & Martyr · Author of the First Gospel | Eastertide |
| ✝✦ | 1 May | Saint Philip & Saint James | Apostles · Hierapolis & Jerusalem | Eastertide |
| ✝✦ | 11 Jun | Saint Barnabas | Apostle · Son of Consolation | Trinity |
| ☧ | 24 Jun | Nativity of St John Baptist | Principal Feast · The Forerunner | Trinity |
| ☧ | 25 Jun | Conversion of St Paul | Feast · See Peter & Paul meditation | Epiphany |
| ✝ | 29 Jun | Saint Peter & Saint Paul | Apostles & Martyrs · Twin Pillars | Trinity |
| ◆ | 22 Jul | Saint Mary Magdalene | Apostola Apostolorum · First Witness of the Resurrection | Trinity |
| ✝ | 25 Jul | Saint James the Apostle | Apostle & Martyr · Son of Zebedee · First to Die | Trinity |
| ☧ | 6 Aug | The Transfiguration | Principal Feast · The Glory Disclosed | Trinity |
| ✝ | 24 Aug | Saint Bartholomew | Apostle & Martyr · India & Armenia | Trinity |
| ✝ | 21 Sep | Saint Matthew | Apostle, Evangelist & Martyr · The Tax Collector | Trinity |
| ✝✦ | 18 Oct | Saint Luke | Evangelist & Physician · Companion of Paul | Trinity |
| ✝ | 28 Oct | Saint Simon & Saint Jude | Apostles & Martyrs · The Zealot & the Obscure | Trinity |
| ✝ | 30 Nov | Saint Andrew | Apostle & Martyr · The First-Called | Advent |
| ✝ | 21 Dec | Saint Thomas | Apostle & Martyr · Apostle of India | Advent |
| ✝ | 26 Dec | Saint Stephen | Protomartyr · The First Martyr | Christmastide |
| ✝✦ | 27 Dec | Saint John the Evangelist | Apostle & Evangelist · The Beloved Disciple | Christmastide |
| ✝ | 28 Dec | The Holy Innocents | Martyrs · The Children of Bethlehem | Christmastide |
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