Feast of St. Pedro de San Jose Betancur, Spanish missionary, “St. Francis of Assisi of the Americas”. Patron of Canary Islands & Guatemala.
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Feast of St. Robert of Chaise Dieu
Feast of St. Robert of Chaise Dieu, Benedictine abbot & founder. Was under St. Odilo at Cluny, France, later built the abbey of Casa Dei.
Feast of St. Drogo
Feast of St. Drogo, orphan & hermit. Patron of coffee house keepers, coffee house owners, broken bones, cattle, deafness, hernias, insanity.
Feast of St. Hunna
Feast of St. Hunna, “the Holy Washerwoman”, noblewoman devoted to the poor of Strasbourg, France. Patron of laundresses, laundry workers.
Feast of St. Lidwina of Schiedam
Feast of St. Lidwina of Schiedam, Dutch mystic. Patron of sickness, chronically ill, ice skaters, and town of Schiedam, Holland. Died 1433.
Feast of St. Hermengild
Feast of St. Hermengild, son of king Leovigild of Visigothic Spain. A” Catholic martyr rebelling against the tyranny of an Arian father.” Patron of Seville, Spain.
Feast of St. Tetricus
Feast of St. Tetricus, Benedictine abbot and bishop. abbot of the monastery of St. Germanus at Auxerre, France. Died 707.
Feast of St. Stanislaus of Cracow
Feast of St. Stanislaus of Cracow, Bishop and martyr. Killed by King Boleslaw II in 1079. Patron of Poland & Cracow, invoked in battle.
Feast of St. Michael de Sanctis
Feast of St. Michael de Sanctis, Discalced Trinitarian priest from Vic, Catalonia, Spain. Died at Valladolid. Patron of cancer patients.
Feast of St. Waldetrudis
Feast of St. Waldetrudis, foundress. Daughter of Sts. Walbert & Bertilia, mother of Sts. Landericus, Madalberta, Adeltrudis, & Dentelin.