August 5

The fifth day of August.
==Births==
* 1912: Abbé Pierre, French atholic priest
==Deaths==
* 1579: Stanislaus Hosius, Polish Catholic cardinal (b. 1504)
* 1633: George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1562)
==Feast days==
===Roman Catholicism===
=== Liturgical observances ===
* Abel of Reims (died 750)
* Addai
* Saint Afra, martyr (Augsburg (rare))
* Saint Afra and companions, virgins, martyrs (France)
* Saint Cassianus, bishop of Autun, confessor (France)
* Saint Dominic, confessor (medieval date, in Paris; nowadays August 4)
* Saint Emygdius, martyr, bishop of Ascoli Piceno
* Saint Fredulph, confessor (Saintes)
* Saint Jonius, priest, martyr (Paris)
* Feast of Mary "ad nives"; Dedication of Santa Maria Maggiore bin Rome (common)
* Saint Memmius, bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, confessor (Metz, France; Paris, as Menge)
* Saint Ormisdas, pope, confessor (Bamberg)
* Saint Oswald of Northumbria, king, martyr (common; England) (died 642)
* Saint Sixtus II, pope (Paris)
* Saint Venantius, bishop of Viviers
* Saint Nonna of Nianza
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