November 2024 Native American Heritage Month
1	Feast of All Saints
2	Feast of All Souls
3	Feast of St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639): Patron of African Americans, race relations, and justice.
4	Feast of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-1584)
5	U.S. Election Day
6	International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in war and armed conflicts
7	Birthday of Ignacio Martín-Baró, S.J. (1942-1989): Scholar, social psychologist, and philosopher who was killed by a U.S.-backed Salvadoran death squad.
8	Birthday of Dorothy Day (1897-1980): An American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. Day's conversion is described in her 1952 autobiography, The Long Loneliness.
9	Birthday of Thomas Berry, C.P. (1914-2009): A Catholic priest, cultural historian, and scholar of the world's religions, especially Asian traditions. Later, as he studied Earth history and evolution, he called himself a "geologian’"
	Birthday of Ignacio Ellacuria, S.J. (1930 -1989): Philosopher, theologian, and leader committed to the “preferential option for the poor, was killed by a U.S.-backed Salvadoran death squad
10	World Science Day for Peace and Development
11	Veterans Day (U.S.)
	Feast of St. Martin of Tours (died 397): Also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours. He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable saints in France, heralded as the patron saint of the Third Republic. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe.
	Birthday of Emma González (1999): American activist and advocate for gun control. As a high school senior she survived the February 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL, and in response co-founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD.
12	Feast of St Josaphat (died 1623): Patron saint of Ukraine and the reunion of the Orthodox and Catholic faiths.
	Diwali (Festival of Lights)
13	Feast of St. Frances Cabrini (1850-1917): Patron saint of immigrants, she was an Italian-American, Roman Catholic, religious sister (nun). She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian immigrants in the United States. Her congregation provided education, health care, and other services to the poor. Mother Cabrini became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1909.[2] On July 7, 1946, Mother Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized a saint by the Catholic Church..
14	Anniversary of the death of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin (1928-1996): Co-founder of Center of Concern, which developed Education for Justice before it closed in 2018. Birthday of Pedro Arrupe, S.J., (1907-1991): Co-founder and first executive director of Center of Concern, which developed Education for Justice before it closed in 2018.
16	35th Anniversary of the murder of the six Jesuit martyrs and their companions in El Salvador (1989)
	International Day for Tolerance
17	World Day of the Poor
19	World Toilet Day
20	Universal Children’s Day
	Transgender Remembrance Day
21	Feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple
	World Television Day: On this day, watch clips and documentaries provided by the United Nations to learn about issues happening around the world.
	“Bloody Sunday” / War of Independence in Ireland (1920)
22	Feast of St. Cecilia (180-230): Patroness of music and musicians.
	Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
	Anniversary of the killing of Tamir Rice by Cleveland police (2014)
23	International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
	Nuremberg Trials (1945)
24	Feast of Christ the King
	Birthday of Yara Sallam (1985): Egyptian human rights defender and transitional justice researcher with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).
25	International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women
	Anniversary of the Declaration of the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
28	Thanksgiving Day
29	International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
	National Buy Nothing Day
30	Feast of St. Andrew (died 60): Apostle