Feast of St. Marie Magdalen Desjardin, Ursuline martyr of the French Revolution. She was guillotined in Valenciennes. Beatified in 1920.
Feast of St. Gerard Majella
Feast of St. Gerard Majella, Italian Redemptorist sacristan, gardener, porter, infirmarian, and tailor. Patron of expectant mothers.
Feast of St. Teresa of Avila
Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, Founder Discalced Carmelites. Patron of headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers.
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. Gereon of Cologne
Feast of St. Gereon of Cologne, called the “Golden Saint”, Theban Legionnaire, Martyred on the Lower Rhine River at Xanten. Invoked against headaches and migraine.
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.