Feast of St. Deicola, Irish Monk, brother of Saint Gall. One of 12 disciples of St. Columbanus. Patron of childhood illnesses. Died 625.
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Feast of St. Mildgytha
Feast of St. Mildgytha, Benedictine nun, abbess, daughter of St. Ermenburg & Merewalh, king of Mercia. Her sisters were Sts. Milburga & Mildrith. The three sisters have been likened to the three theological virtues: Mildburh to faith, Mildgyth to hope, and Mildrith to charity.
Feast of St. Arnold Janssen
Feast of St. Arnold Janssen, German-Dutch priest and missionary, Founder, Society of the Divine Word, the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, and Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters. Canonized in 5 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
Feast of St. Kentigern Mungo
Feast of St. Kentigern Mungo, First bishop of the Strathclyde Britons, son of a British princess, raised by St. Serf, He is known as the Apostle of Northwestern England and Southwestern Scotland. Patron of Penicuik, Glasgow, salmon, Scotland, and against bullies.
Feast of St. Benedict Biscop
Feast of St. Benedict Biscop, Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Abbot, founder, Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory, Jarrow England. Former a thegn of King Oswiu. Patron of English Benedictines, musicians, painters, Sunderland, England.
Feast of Saints Paldo, Tato and Taso
Feast of Saints Paldo, Tato and Taso, Benedictine monks. The three brothers from Benevento, Italy founded San Vincenzo monastery at the site of a Constantinian oratory. Each then served as Abbot.
Feast of Saint Pietro I Orseolo
Feast of Saint Pietro I Orseolo, O.S.B. Cam. Venetian Admiral, Doge of Venice who built hospitals and cared for widows, orphans and pilgrims for two years, then abdicated and became a Camaldolese Monk at Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa abbey, Prades, France. Canonized in 1731.
Feast of Marciana of Mauretania
Feast of Marciana of Mauretania, virgin martyr from Mauretania Caesariensis (now Algeria). During the Diocletianic persecution of Christians, she was thrown to wild beasts in the amphitheatre of Caesarea. Died in 303. Patronage – invoked to cure wounds.
Feast of St. Gudula
Feast of St. Gudula, daughter of Witger, Duke of Lotharingia and St. Amalberga of Maubeuge, sister of St. Pharaildis, St. Reineldis, and St. Emebertus. Patron of Brussels and single laywomen.
Feast of St. Raymond de Pennafort
Feast of St. Raymond of Pennafort, Spanish Dominican Friar, founder, Order of Our Lady of Ransom. Compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX. Elected the Master of the Order of Preachers by the General Chapter of 1238. Patron of Canonists. Died 1275, Barcelona, Spain.