Feast of Saint Lucy Filippini, founder, Religious Teachers Filippini. founded schools for young women, especially the poor. Died 1732.

Feast of St. Nicholas of Flue, Swiss farmer, captain, councilor, judge, member of the assembly, mystic, hermit and father of ten children.  Patron of Switzerland and Pontifical Swiss Guards.

Feast of St. William of Penacorada, Benedictine founder, from the monastery of Sathgun, Leon, Spain.  Fled that monastery under attack by Saracens. Founded the monastery of Santa Maria de los Valles, later renamed San Guillermo de Penacorda.

Feast of St. Joseph, the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and legal father of Jesus Christ.  Patron of The Catholic Church, unborn children, fathers, workers, carpenters, Belgium, Croatia, realtors, against doubt and hesitation and of a happy death.

Feast of St. Louise de Marillac, co-founder, (with St. 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, wife of King Henry I of Germany (Henry the Fowler). Mother of three – Otho, Emperor, Henry, Duke of Bavaria and St. Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne. She is buried in St. Servatius Church, Quedlinburg Abbey. Patron…

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. Sophronius of Jerusalem, monk, theologian and Patriarch.  Called the Sophist, he wrote the Florilegium, the life of St. John the Almsgiver, the life of St. Mary of Egypt and composed 23 anacreontic odes on the feasts of…

Feast of St. Catherine of Bologna, Italian artist, founder, abbess, cloistered nun of The Poor Clares and author Seven Spiritual Weapons Necessary for Spiritual Warfare. Patron of artists, Bologna, Italy Liberal arts and against temptations.   Died 1463.

Feast of St. Vincent Kadlubek, Cistercian Bishop of Cracow. Author, Chronicles of the Kings and Princes of Poland. Patron of Sandomierz.