Feast of St. Joan Elizabeth Bichier des Ages, Founder, Daughters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew for teaching and hospital service.

Feast of St. Joseph Calasanctius, Spanish priest, theologian, confessor, synodal examiner, procurator, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools and the Piarists (Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools).  Patron of Catholic Schools.

Feast of St. Jane Antide Thouret, Foundress, Institute of the Daughters of Charity in Besancon, France. Patron – Sisters of Divine Charity.

Feast of St. Tydfil, Welsh martyr, the twenty-third daughter of Brychan, king of Brycheiniog. Slain by a group of Picts or Saxons. St Tydfil’s Church in Llysworney in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales is dedicated to her.

Feast of Pope Saint Pius X, Italian Pope, promoted Thomism, opposed modernism. Patron of first communicants, Catechists, pilgrims, Archdiocese of Atlanta, GA, Diocese of Des Moines, IA, Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, MT, Santa Luċija, Malta, Archdiocese of Zamboanga, PI.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order. Patron of Cistercians, Burgundy, beekeepers, Gibraltar, Algeciras, Knights Templar and Binangonan, Rizal, Philippines.

Feast of St. Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz, Augustinian Recollect, missionary to the Philippines, Bishop of Pinara and later Pasto, Colombia. Died 1906. Patron of cancer patients, Sto. Niño De Molino Parish Church – Bacoor City and Recoletos Community.

Feast of St. Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, founder and writer of Basque origin. Founder of the Hogar de Cristo foundation. Patron of Chile, poor people, street children and social workers.

Feast of St. Mamas of Caesarea, Child-Martyr, shepherd. Patron of Langres, France, breastfeeding babies, protector of sufferers of broken bones and hernias in Murero, Zaragoza, Spain.

Feast of St. Hyacinth, Dominican missionary, “Apostle of Poland”. Preached in Poland, Pomerania, Denmark, Prussia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Russia, China, Tibet. Patron of Lithuania & Hyacinth’s Basilica, 3636 W. Wolfram St., Chicago. Invoked by those in danger of drowning.