August 17

The sixteenth day of August.

Births

 * 1794. Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)

Roman Catholicism

 * Saint Elias of Calabria
 * Saint Hyacinth of Poland
 * Saint Hiero (Jeron), martyr [Utrecht]
 * Octave of saint Lawrence [common]
 * Saint Liberatus, abbot, and companions, martyrs
 * Saint Mamas, martyr [Metz, France]
 * Victory of French king Philip IV the Fair at Mons-en-Pévèle [Paris]
 * Saint Clare of the Cross