Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, Founder Discalced Carmelites. Patron of Headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers.
Feast of St. Calixtus
Feast of St. Calixtus, Pope and Martyr. Succeeded St. Zephyrinus as Pope. Patron of Cemetery workers.
Feast of St. Colman of Stockerau
Feast of St. Colman of Stockerau, martyr. Irish pilgrim en route to the Holy Land mistaken for a spy. Patron of hanged men, horses, Austria, Melk. Invoked for husbands by marriageable girls, against hanging, plague and gout.
Feast of St. Edwin of Northumbria
Feast of St. Edwin of Northumbria, Martyr King. Patron of converts, hobos, homeless people, kings, and parents of large families.
Feast of St. Gummarus
Feast of St. Gummarus, an official in the court of Pepin the Younger, King of the Franks, later a hermit at Nivesdunc. Patron of childless people, courtiers, cowherds, difficult marriages, glove makers, hernia sufferers, separated spouses and woodcutters.
Feast of St. Denis of Paris
Feast of St. Denis of Paris, bishop, martyr and cephalophore (martyred by beheading). The first bishop of Paris, the Apostle of France and one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Patron of France, Paris, possessed people, against frenzy, strife, hydrophobia and…
Feast of St. Ywi of Lindisfarne
Feast of St. Ywi of Lindisfarne, Northumbrian Benedictine monk and hermit at Lindisfarne Abbey, England. He was ordained a deacon by St. Cuthbert. Died in 690.
Feast of St. Justina of Padua
Feast of St. Justina of Padua, Virgin princess martyred in Padua during the Diocletanic persecution. Patron of Padua and Palmanova, Italy.
Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu
Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, virgin, Hospitaller nun of St. John of Jerusalem. Patron of the abandoned, converts, single women and victims of betrayal.
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, friar, deacon & preacher. Founder of the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Patron saint of animals, ecologists,…