Feast of St. Gummarus, abbot at Lierre. Patron of childless people, difficult marriages, hernia sufferers, separated spouses, woodcutters.
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Feast of St. Gereon
Feast of St. Gereon, “Golden Saint”, Theban Legionnaire, Martyred on the Lower Rhine River at Xanten. Invoked against headaches, migraine.
Feast of St. Dionysius the Areopagite
Feast of St. Dionysius the Areopagite, hieromartyr, First Bishop of Athens. Patron of Lawyers.
Feast of St. Ywi of Lindisfarne
Feast of St. Ywi of Lindisfarne, Benedictine monk and hermit at Lindisfarne Abbey, England. He was ordained a deacon by St. Cuthbert. Died in 690.
Feast of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
Feast of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, Franciscan tertiary, mystic and stigmatic. Patron of Naples, Italy. Died in 1791.
Feast of St. Flora
Feast of St. Flora, virgin, Hospitaller nun of St. John of Jerusalem. Patron of the abandoned, converts, single women, victims of betrayal.
Feast of St. Mother Theodore Guerin
Feast of St. Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Patron, Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana.
Feast of St. Leodegarius
Feast of St. Leodegarius, Benedictine bishop & martyr. Abbott of St. Maxentius, Patron of millers, invoked against blindness & eye disease.
Feast of St. Romanus the Melodist
Feast of St. Romanus the Melodist, hymnographer of 1000 compositions, some master works of religious literature. Patron of church singers.