Feast of St. Gervase & St. Protase, considered the 1st martyrs of Milan. Patrons of Milan, haymakers, invoked for the discovery of thieves.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Feast of St. Botulph
Feast of St. Botulph, missionary and monk, brother of St. Adulph. Patron saint of travelers and farming. Boston is short for Botolph’s town.
Feast of St. Luthgard
Feast of St. Luthgard, Cistercian nun and mystic. Patron of blindness, childbirth, Flanders, the disabled, handicapped, and physically challenged.
Feast of St. Crescentia
Feast of St. Crescentia, martyr at Lucania, Southern Italy. Patron of actors, comedians, dancers, dogs, epilepsy, oversleeping, Prague, snakebites, storms.
Feast of St. Lotharius
Feast of St. Lotharius, Benedictine bishop, founder of Saint-Loyer-des-Champs Monastery in the forest of Argentan, France. Died 756.
Feast of St. Triphyllius
Feast of St. Triphyllius, bishop, follower of St. Spyridon of Trimythous, and supporter of St. Athanasius of Alexandria against the Arians.
Feast of St. Barnabas
Feast of St. Barnabas, Prophet, Disciple. Patron of Cyprus, Antioch, against hailstorms, invoked asĀ a peacemaker
Feast of St. Bogumilus
Feast of St. Bogumilus, Archbishop of Gniezno, Poland and founder, Cistercian abbey at Koronowo, Poland. Patron of Gniezno. Died 1182.
Feast of St. Columba
Feast of St. Columba, Irish abbot & missionary, founded Iona abbey. Patron of Derry, bookbinders, poets, Ireland, Scotland, against floods.
Feast of St. Robert of Frassinoro
Feast of St. Robert of Frassinoro, Benedictine abbot. He governed the abbey of Frassinoro, near Modena, Italy. Died in 1070.