A Catholic novena is typically recited for nine consecutive days.
When praying a novena in the lead up to a feast day, the novena commonly finishes on the eve of the feast.
Pray a novena for a particular intention or to simply invoke a Saint’s intercession in the lead up to their feast day.
Precious Blood of Jesus
Start date: Any time in July
Feast date: 1 July and celebrated during the entire month
St. Benedict
Start date: 2 July
Feast date: 11 July
Intentions: Protection from evil; students; Europe
Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin
Start date: 3 July
Feast date: 12 July
Intentions: Marriage; parenting; mental illness; widowers
St. Veronica
Start date: 3 July
Feast date: 12 July
Intentions: Laundry workers; photographers
St. Kateri Tekakwitha
Start date: 5 July
Feast date: 14 July
Intentions: Loss of parents; care for creation
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Start date: 7 July
Feast date: 16 July
Intentions: Protection from harm; deliverance from Purgatory
St. Camillus de Lellis
Start date: 9 July
Feast date: 18 July
Intentions: Nurses; the sick and dying; hospitals
St. Mary Magdalene
Start date: 13 July
Feast date: 22 July
Intentions: Women; converts
St. Anne
Start date: 17 July
Feast date: 26 July
Intentions: To find a spouse; to conceive a child; women in labour; grandparents
St. Martha
Start date: 20 July
Feast date: 29 July
Intentions: Homemakers; single laywomen
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Start date: 22 July
Feast date: 31 July
Intentions: Discernment and decision-making; educators
St. John Vianney
Start date: 26 July
Feast date: 4 August
Intentions: Parish priests
St. Cajetan
Start date: 29 July
Feast date: 7 August
Intentions: Seeking employment; the poor
St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop
Start date: 30 July
Feast date: 8 August
Intentions: Australia
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
Start date: 31 July
Feast date: 9 August
Intentions: loss of parents; converts
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