Feast of St. Eugene de Mazenod, French priest, bishop of Marseille and founder, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Patron of dysfunctional families.
Monthly Archives: May 2018
Feast of Bernardino of Siena
Feast of Bernardino of Siena, (Bernardine), Italian priest, Franciscan missionary, and popular preacher “the Apostle of Italy”. Patron of Advertisers, advertising, Aquila, Italy, chest problems, Diocese of San Bernardino, California, gambling addicts and public relations work.
Feast of Theodotus of Ancyra
Feast of Theodotus of Ancyra, martyred with Thecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, Phaina, Euphrasia, Matrona and Julitta during the Diocletianic persecutions. Patron of innkeepers.
Feast of St. Thethmar
Feast of St. Thethmar, Premonstratensian canon and missionary. He was also known as Theodemar, Friend of St. Vicelinus, worked to convert the Wends, in Germany. Died 1152.
Feast of St. Ubald Baldassini
Feast of St. Ubald Baldassini, medieval Bishop of Gubbio, Italy. Patron of sick children, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autistics, against migraine, neuralgia, demonic possession.
Feast of St. Maria Dominic Mazzarello
Feast of St. Maria Dominic Mazzarello, Co-founder, Salesian Sisters of St John Bosco or Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. Died 1881.
Feast of St. Servatus of Tongeren
Feast of St. Servatus, bishop of Tongeren for 37 years, one of the Ice Saints. Patron invoked against foot troubles, leg problems, lameness, rheumatism, rats and mice.
Feast of St. Gangulphus of Burgundy
Feast of St. Gangulphus of Burgundy, Martyr hermit. A landowner who renounced his wealth & become a hermit. Patron of husbands unhappily married, shoemakers, children, horses, invoked against knee pains, sicknesses affecting the eyes & skin, invoked against marital difficulties.
Feast of St. Cataldus
Feast of St. Cataldus, Archbishop. Irish monk in Lismore, County Waterford. Shipwrecked at Taranto while returning from the Holy Land. Elected Bishop, elevated to Archbishop. Patron of the Sicilian Normans & Taranto, Italy. Invoked for protection from plagues, droughts & storms.
Feast of St. Peter of Tarantaise
Feast of St. Peter of Tarantaise, French Cistercian abbot and archbishop of Tarentaise at the insistence of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The first abbot of Tamie, Savoy, France. Patron of Tarentaise.