Feast of St. Botulph, missionary and monk, brother of St. Adulph. Patron saint of travelers and farming. Boston is short for Botolph’s town.
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Feast of St. Lutgardis
Feast of St. Lutgardis, Cistercian nun & mystic. Patron of blindness, childbirth, Flanders, the disabled, and the handicapped. Died 1246.
Feast of St. Crescentia
Feast of St. Crescentia, martyr at Lucania. 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. Anthony of Padua
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Portuguese Franciscan priest. Patron of lost articles, mail, mariners, Portugal, seekers of lost articles.
Feast of St. Onouphrius
Feast of St. Onouphrius, monk at a cenobitic monastery near Thebes. Patron of weavers, jurists, & Centrache, Italy.
Feast of St. Barnabas
Feast of St. Barnabas, Prophet, Disciple. Patron of Cyprus, Antioch, against hailstorms, invoked as 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.