August 16

The sixteenth day of August.

Deaths

 * 1327. Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
 * 1661. Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (b. 1608)
 * 2005. Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)

Roman Catholicism

 * Saint Arnulph, bishop of Metz, Soissons, confessor [common]
 * Saint Balsemius, martyr [Troyes]
 * Translation ('vorheving') of Saint Bernward, bishop of Hildesheim, (deposition alse he starff) [Hildesheim]
 * Translation of Saint Brinolph, bishop of Skara [Skara]
 * Saint Eonius, bishop of Arles [Arles]
 * Saint Frambald, abbot, confessor [Senlis]
 * Saint Hyacinth, confessor [Dominicans]
 * Translation of Saint Maurilius, bishop of Angers, confessor [Angers]
 * Saint Audomar, bishop of Thérouanne [Paris]
 * Saint Roch, confessor (helps against plague and skin diseases), patron saint of pilgrims, plague victims, and dogs
 * Saint Simplician, bishop
 * Saint Stephen I of Hungary
 * Saint Anne, Mother of Mary [Münster, Osnabrück]

Orthodox Christianity

 * Commemoration of the translation of the Acheiropoietos icon which means "Not made by hands", (also known as the Mandelion; now lost) from Edessa to Constantinople in 944