Feast of St. Juliana Falconieri, foundress of the Servite nuns. Patron of bodily ills, sick people, and sickness.
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Feast of Elisabeth of Schönau
Feast of Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary & abbess. Experienced ecstatic visions starting in 1152. Died in 1164.
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. 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. 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. Melania the Elder
Feast of St. Melania the Elder, Foundress, Desert Mother. Wealthy Roman, married a Proconsul, influential in the Christian ascetic movement.
Feast of St. Landulf of Yariglia,
Feast of St. Landulf of Yariglia, Benedictine Bishop of Asti, Italy. Joined Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan, on the Crusade of 1101.