diff --git a/calendarium/liturgics/day.py b/calendarium/liturgics/day.py
index 77e064c..716f645 100644
--- a/calendarium/liturgics/day.py
+++ b/calendarium/liturgics/day.py
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@
Tradition.Greek: GreekYear,
}
+# How many commemorations Day.minimal_saints keeps before truncating --
+# purely a display-space constraint (the monthly calendar grid cell,
+# summary_title's fallback), not a statement about which commemorations
+# matter more. Adjust freely if the grid's cell size changes.
+MINIMAL_SAINTS_LIMIT = 3
+
def _join_and(items):
"""'meat' / 'meat and fish' / 'meat, fish, and dairy'."""
@@ -297,22 +303,21 @@ async def _add_supplemental_commemorations(self):
additive.append(dc)
elif dc.day_native and dc.ordering >= 0:
day_native_by_day.setdefault(dc.day_id, []).append(dc)
- elif not dc.day_native:
+ elif not dc.day_native and dc.ordering >= 0:
additive.append(dc)
elif dc.day_id not in winning_day_ids:
- # day_native with ordering < 0 (feast_name-matched), but its
- # own Day row lost _prefer_tradition_days's preference for
- # this request -- e.g. a saint shared via
- # DayCommemoration.tradition='common' whose day_native
- # entry lives on a different tradition's Day row than the
- # one whose feast_name is actually being shown. Its
- # feast_name isn't surfacing via self.feasts at all in that
- # case, so fall back to showing it plainly rather than
- # silently dropping it.
+ # ordering < 0 (feast_name-matched, day_native or not), but
+ # its own Day row lost _prefer_tradition_days's preference
+ # for this request -- e.g. a saint shared via
+ # DayCommemoration.tradition='common' whose entry lives on a
+ # different tradition's Day row than the one whose
+ # feast_name is actually being shown. Its feast_name isn't
+ # surfacing via self.feasts at all in that case, so fall
+ # back to showing it plainly rather than silently dropping it.
additive.append(dc)
- # else: day_native with ordering < 0, and its own Day row is the
- # one whose feast_name is being shown -- already represented via
- # self.feasts; story-only, excluded here.
+ # else: ordering < 0 (day_native or not), and its own Day row is
+ # the one whose feast_name is being shown -- already
+ # represented via self.feasts; excluded here.
self.saints = []
# Parallel to self.saints, but pairs each title with the story's id
@@ -321,7 +326,6 @@ async def _add_supplemental_commemorations(self):
# itself -- it's consumed as plain strings elsewhere (ical.py, RSS).
self.saint_links = []
self.spoken_saints = []
- self.minimal_saints = []
for dcs in day_native_by_day.values():
# Grouped by whichever Day row the entries originally came from
# (dc.day_id may not be in self.days -- see the class docstring
@@ -332,13 +336,19 @@ async def _add_supplemental_commemorations(self):
self.saints.extend(titles)
self.saint_links.extend((dc.title, dc.id if dc.story else None) for dc in dcs)
self.spoken_saints.extend(dc.title for dc in dcs if _speech_worthy(dc))
- if titles:
- self.minimal_saints.append('; '.join(titles))
self.saints.extend(dc.title for dc in additive)
self.saint_links.extend((dc.title, dc.id if dc.story else None) for dc in additive)
self.spoken_saints.extend(dc.title for dc in additive if _speech_worthy(dc))
+ # A length-capped view of self.saints for space-constrained displays
+ # (the monthly calendar grid, and summary_title's fallback below) --
+ # deliberately just a truncation, not a day_native/story-provenance
+ # distinction (that was the old design, and it broke down as soon as
+ # a "story-only" commemoration needed to be the thing shown, e.g.
+ # after a feast_name/DayCommemoration de-duplication).
+ self.minimal_saints = self.saints[:MINIMAL_SAINTS_LIMIT]
+
# spoken_saints excludes only the story-less tradition='greek' overlay
# (the bulk antiochian.org-harvested commemorations, see
# docs/saint-model-refactor.md) -- those would otherwise bloat the
diff --git a/calendarium/migrations/0009_remove_day_saints.py b/calendarium/migrations/0009_remove_day_saints.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d930bcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/calendarium/migrations/0009_remove_day_saints.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Generated by Django 6.0.7 on 2026-08-07 14:41
+
+from django.db import migrations
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+ dependencies = [
+ ('calendarium', '0008_day_story'),
+ ]
+
+ operations = [
+ migrations.RemoveField(
+ model_name='day',
+ name='saints',
+ ),
+ ]
diff --git a/calendarium/models.py b/calendarium/models.py
index 4bd390e..a59067e 100644
--- a/calendarium/models.py
+++ b/calendarium/models.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ class Day(models.Model):
feast_level = models.SmallIntegerField()
service = models.SmallIntegerField()
service_note = models.CharField(max_length=64)
- saints = models.JSONField(default=list)
story = models.TextField(null=True, blank=True) # feast-level narrative, non-saint content
fast = models.SmallIntegerField()
fast_exception = models.SmallIntegerField()
diff --git a/calendarium/templates/calendar_day.html b/calendarium/templates/calendar_day.html
index 2020bcd..0f1a76b 100644
--- a/calendarium/templates/calendar_day.html
+++ b/calendarium/templates/calendar_day.html
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@
{% endif %}
- {% if day.saints %}
+ {% if day.minimal_saints %}
- {% for saint in day.saints %}
+ {% for saint in day.minimal_saints %}
- {{ saint }}
{% endfor %}
diff --git a/calendarium/templates/readings.html b/calendarium/templates/readings.html
index 5a9dd62..7e10056 100644
--- a/calendarium/templates/readings.html
+++ b/calendarium/templates/readings.html
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
{% block main %}