Feast of St. Louise de Marillac, co-founder, (with Saint Vincent de Paul), the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Patron of disappointing children, loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, sick people, social workers, Vincentian Service Corps…
Feast of St. Matilda
Feast of St. Matilda, wife, King Henry I of Germany (Henry the Fowler). Mother of three sons, Otho, Emperor, Henry, Duke of Bavaria, and St. Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne. She is buried in St. Servatius Church, Quedlinburg Abbey. Patron parents…
Feast of St. Ansovinus
Feast of St. Ansovinus, Bishop and confessor, counselor to Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor. Bishop of Camerino, Macerata, Marche, Italy. Patron of gardeners, invoked for good harvests. Died 840.
Feast of St. Paul Aurelian
Feast of St. Paul Aurelian, Bishop & Founder, 1st bishop of Quimper & Léon, 1 of the 7 founder saints of Brittany. A pupil of Saint Illtud at Ynys Byr, established monasteries in Finistère, at Lampaul, Ushant Island, & Batz…
Feast of St. Kessog
Feast of St. Kessog, Martyr, Irish missionary active in the Lennox and southern Perthshire areas. Son of the king of Cashel in Ireland, he was a missionary bishop in Scotland. The Kessog oil field in the North Sea is named…
Feast of St. Drausinus of Soissons
Feast of St. Drausinus of Soissons, bishop and founder. Built a monastery, 2 churches, and a convent at Soissons. Medieval legend says that to spend the night at Drausinus’ tomb made one invincible. Patron of champions and to thwart enemy…
Feast of Sts. Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba
Feast of Sts. Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, Abbesses, relatives of King Penda of Mercia. Kyneburga founded an abbey in Castor, in the Soke of Peterborough. Kyneswide and Tibba became abbess in succession, after the death of Kyneburga. Tibba is patron…
Feast of St. Piran
Feast of St. Piran, 5th-century Cornish abbot and hermit near Padstow in Cornwall. St. Piran’s Day is the national day of Cornwall. Patron of Tin miners and Cornwall although Saint Michael and Saint Petroc also have some claim to the…
Feast of St. Katharine Drexel
Feast of St. Katharine Drexel, American heiress, philanthropist, religious sister, educator, and founder – Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. The 2nd canonized saint born in the United States and the 1st to have been born a U.S. citizen. Patron of…
Feast of St. Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt
Feast of St. Suitbert of Kaiserwerdt, missionary bishop, founder. Apostle of the Frisians with St. Willibrord. Converted pagan in North Brabant, Gelderland, and Cleves. Patron of Germany. Died 739.