National Saints

The Saints & Martyrs of England
8 November

The date when Christianity first came to England is not known, but there were British bishops at the Council of Arles in the year 314, indicating a Church with order and worship. Since those days, Christians from England have shared the message of the good news at home and around the world. As the world-wide fellowship of the Anglican Communion developed, incorporating peoples of many nations and cultures, individual Christian men and women have shone as beacons, heroically bearing witness to their Lord, some through a simple life of holiness, others by giving their lives for the sake of Christ.

Collect

God, whom the glorious company of the redeemed adore,assembled from all times and places of your dominion:we praise you for the saints of our own landand for the many lamps their holiness has lit;and we pray that we also may be numbered at lastwith those who have done your will and declared your righteousness;through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,who is alive and reigns with you,in the unity of the Holy Spirit,one God, now and for ever.

According to the English national calendar:
12 January Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
19 January Saint Wulstan
14 February: Saints Cyril, Monk and Methodius
1 March: Saint David of Wales
17 March: Saint Patrick
21 April: Saint Anselm of Canterbury
23 April: Saint George
24 April: Saint Adelbert or Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
29 April: Saint Catherine of Siena
4 May: The English Martyrs
19 May: Saint Dunstan
25 May: Saint Bede the Venerable
27 May: Saint Augustine (Austin) of Canterbury
9 June: Saint Columba
16 June: Saint Richard of Chichester
20 June: Saint Alban
22 June: Saints John Fisher and Thomas More
23 June: Saint Etheldreda (Audrey)
1 July: Saint Oliver Plunket
11 July: Saint Benedict
23 July: Saint Bridget
9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
26 August: Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God
30 August: Saints Margaret Clitherow, Anne Line and Margaret Ward
31 August: Saint Aidan and Saints of Lindisfarne
4 September: Saint Cuthbert
19 September: Saint Theodore of Canterbury
24 September: Our Lady of Walsingham
10 October: Saint Paulinus of York
12 October: Saint Wilfrid
13 October: Saint Edward the Confessor
26 October: Saints Chad and Cedd
3 November: Saint Winefride
7 November: Saint Willibrord
16 November: Saint Edmund of Abingdon or Saint Margaret of Scotland
17 November: Saint Hilda or Saint Hugh of Lincoln or Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

This list is from the Catholic Weekday Mass Book.

Anglican lists can be found in 'Common Worship' and 'Exciting Holiness'.

Collects & Readings for the Festivals & Lesser Festivals
of the Calendar of the Church of England
authorised for use from Advent Sunday, 1997

"The celebration of the Holy Spirit at work in many different ways in the lives of Christian men and women down the ages,whose examples excite us to holiness, is a sign of the great cloud of witnesses with which we are surrounded."
From the essay Daily Prayer in the Life of the Church in Celebrating Common Prayer(which first appeared in The Daily Office SSF 1981)