Where the saints come from.

France

Published under CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources : Main saint of the day: the traditional calendar list (the one used by La Poste calendars), taken from William Deren's gladys-fete-du-jour project (Apache 2.0 licence), itself derived from Matthieu Renaut's scriptable-fete-du-jour (MIT licence, © 2023 Matthieu Renaut). Other names celebrated: French Wikipedia, the 366 day pages, “Prénoms du jour” section (or “Saints des Églises chrétiennes” when it is missing), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; each page's authors are in its history.

Changes : Added “Saint” / “Sainte”, removed parenthetical cross-references, discarded variants never or hardly ever given in France, removed names already celebrated on another day from the day's list.

The authors and revisions of each Wikipedia page are in its history (link below) and in the provenance file published with the list.

Licences : Apache-2.0 · MIT · CC BY-SA 4.0

Licence notices (original text, in English)

NOTICE (gladys-fete-du-jour, William Deren): The built-in list of the name days (src/days.js) is derived from the list of scriptable-fete-du-jour (https://github.com/monsieurm/scriptable-fete-du-jour), corrected against the French Wikipedia day pages and the liturgical calendar. It is used under the MIT License.

MIT License — Copyright (c) 2023 Matthieu Renaut. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

gladys-fete-du-jour · scriptable-fete-du-jour · Wikipédia (fr) · Wikipedia (fr) history · Download the list (JSON) · Provenance file (JSON)

Italy

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Sources : Main saint of the day: Santo del giorno dataset by Marco Milesi, used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Other saints of the day: Italian Wikipedia, the 366 day pages, “Religiose” section, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Changes : 19 prefixes fixed (“San Emerenziana” becomes “Sant'Emerenziana”), first names extracted from saints' names, blessed (beati) discarded.

The authors and revisions of each Wikipedia page are in its history (link below) and in the provenance file published with the list.

Licences : CC BY 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0

santo-del-giorno-dataset · Wikipedia (it) · Wikipedia (it) history · Download the list (JSON) · Provenance file (JSON)

Germany

Public domain (“frei kopierbar”)

Sources : “Namenstage” list from kalender-365.de (Jumk.de Webprojekte, Jürgen Kummer). The publisher states: “Die Namenstag-Liste ist frei kopierbar (public domain).”

Changes : Abbreviations expanded (“Johannes d.T.” becomes “Johannes der Täufer”), “Hl.” added, feasts separated from first names.

kalender-365.de · Download the list (JSON) · Provenance file (JSON)

Austria

Public domain (“frei kopierbar”)

Sources : The same “Namenstage” list from kalender-365.de as for Germany: we found no free list specific to Austria. Public-domain source.

Changes : Same changes as for Germany.

kalender-365.de · Download the list (JSON) · Provenance file (JSON)

Switzerland

Public domain (“frei kopierbar”)

Sources : The same “Namenstage” list from kalender-365.de as for Germany: we found no free list specific to Switzerland. Public-domain source.

Changes : Same changes as for Germany.

kalender-365.de · Download the list (JSON) · Provenance file (JSON)

Spain

Published under CC BY-SA 4.0

Sources : Spanish Wikipedia, the 366 day pages, “Santoral católico” section, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; each page's authors are in its history.

Changes : Descriptions removed, blessed and movable feasts discarded, Marian feasts attached to the first name they carry (Pilar, Carmen, Dolores…).

The main saint of each day was reviewed day by day: the one a Spanish calendar names on that day, always chosen among the saints on the page. The changes are recorded in the provenance file.

The authors and revisions of each Wikipedia page are in its history (link below) and in the provenance file published with the list.

Licences : CC BY-SA 4.0

Wikipedia (es) · Wikipedia (es) history · Download the list (JSON) · Provenance file (JSON)

Poland

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Sources : Main names of the day: imieniny by Piotr Trochymiak (MIT licence, © 2024 Piotr Trochymiak). Other names celebrated: Polish Wikipedia, the 366 day pages, “Imieniny obchodzą” line, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Changes : Names put back in the nominative (“Jana” becomes “Jan”), three typos fixed.

The authors and revisions of each Wikipedia page are in its history (link below) and in the provenance file published with the list.

Licences : MIT · CC BY-SA 4.0

Licence notices (original text, in English)

MIT License — Copyright (c) 2024 Piotr Trochymiak. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

imieniny · Wikipedia (pl) · Wikipedia (pl) history · Download the list (JSON) · Provenance file (JSON)

School holidays

The school holidays in the agenda and in the “Outside school holidays” option of repeats come from the sources below, read again every week.

France: data.education.gouv.fr, Licence Ouverte 2.0. data.education.gouv.fr · Licence Ouverte 2.0

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Luxembourg: OpenHolidays API (openholidaysapi.org), ODbL 1.0. OpenHolidays API · ODbL 1.0

Netherlands: opendata.rijksoverheid.nl (Ministerie van Algemene Zaken), CC0 1.0. opendata.rijksoverheid.nl · CC0 1.0

Italy: 2026-2027 school calendars of the 19 regions and 2 autonomous provinces, from their official acts (not protected, art. 5 law 633/1941); Basilicata not yet. it-2026-2027.json

Ireland: national school calendar 2026-2029, Circular 0018/2026 of the Department of Education and Youth (© Department of Education and Youth, free re-use with acknowledgement of the source). Circular 0018/2026 (gov.ie) · ie-school.json

Poland: national school calendar and ferie zimowe by voivodeship, 2026-2028, regulation of the Minister of Education of 11 August 2017 and MEN announcements (official texts not protected, art. 4 of the Polish copyright act). Dz. U. 2023 poz. 1211 (isap.sejm.gov.pl) · Kalendarz roku szkolnego 2026/2027 (gov.pl) · Ferie zimowe 2026/2027 (gov.pl) · Ferie zimowe 2027/2028 (gov.pl) · pl-school.json

Spain: 2026-2027 school calendars of the 17 autonomous communities, Ceuta and Melilla, from their official acts (not protected, art. 13 of the Spanish intellectual property law); Andalusia by province. es-2026-2027.json