Feast of St. Gereon, the “Golden Saint”, Theban Legionnaire, Martyred on the Lower Rhine River at Xanten. Invoked against headaches, migraine.

Feast of St. Dionysius the Areopagite, hieromartyr, First Bishop of Athens. Patron of Lawyers.

Feast of St. Ywi, Benedictine monk and hermit at Lindisfarne Abbey, England. He was ordained a deacon by St. Cuthbert. Died in 690.

Feast of St. Sergius, martyr, Roman army officer, refused to sacrifice to pagan gods. Patron of Syria, the army, soldiers. Died in 303.

Feast of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, Franciscan tertiary, mystic and stigmatic. Died in 1791, canonized in 1867.

Feast of St. Flora, virgin, Hospitaller nun of St. John of Jerusalem. Patron of the abandoned, converts, single women, victims of betrayal.

Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Founder of the Franciscan Order, patron saint of Animals, ecologists and merchants.

Feast of St. Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Patron, Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana

Feast of St. Leodegarius, Benedictine bishop and martyr. Abbott of St. Maxentius, Patron of millers; invoked against blindness, eye disease.

Feast of St. Romanus the Melodist, hymnographer of 1000 compositions, some master works of religious literature. Patron of church singers.