Feast of St. Odo, Benedictine Abbot, reformed the Abbey of Cluny, which became the model of monasticism for over a century. Patron for rain.

Feast of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, bishop. Patron of desperate causes, floods, impossible causes, lost causes and against earthquakes.

Feast of St. Hugh of Lincoln, Carthusian monk of the Grande Chartreuse, Bishop of Lincoln. Patron of sick people, shoemakers, and swans.

Feast of St. Lawrence O’Toole, Augustinian archbishop of Dublin, Ireland. Patron of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. Died 1180.

Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. 1st American citizen canonized. Patron of immigrants. National Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini is in Chicago.

Feast of St. Emilian Cucullatus, hermit, priest. Founded a hermitage that became the Benedictine Abbey of La Cogalla. Patron of Castile.

Feast of St. Martin of Tours, Bishop, founder, The Abbey of Marmoutier, France. Patron of Soldiers, wine growers, wine makers.

Feast of St. Andrew Avellino, Theologian, founder, friend of St. Charles Borromeo. Patron of Naples & Sicily, invoked against sudden death.

Feast of St. Theodore Tyro, Roman martyr. Venerated in the Eastern Church as one of the three “Soldier Saints,” with George and Demetrios.

Feast of St. Castorius, one of the four crowned martyrs of Pannonia, Hungary. Patron of sculptors, stonemasons, stonecutters, against fever.