Feast of St. Odo of Cluny, Benedictine Abbot, canon of the Church of St. Martin in Tours, studied philosophy under Remigius of Auxerre. Second abbot of Cluny. He enacted various reforms in the Cluniac system of France and Italy. Patron for rain.
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Feast of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus
Feast of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (Gregory the Miracle-Worker), bishop. Patron of desperate causes, floods, impossible causes, lost causes and against earthquakes.
Feast of St. Hugh of Lincoln
Feast of St. Hugh of Lincoln, Carthusian monk of the Grande Chartreuse, Bishop of Lincoln. Patron of sick children, sick people, shoemakers and swans.
Feast of St. Albert the Great
Feast of St. Albert the Great, 13th-century German Dominican bishop and Doctor of the Church. Scientist, philosopher, astrologer, theologian, spiritual writer, ecumenist and diplomat. Patron of scientists, medical technicians, natural sciences, philosophers and students.
Feast of St. Lawrence O’Toole
Feast of St. Lawrence O’Toole (Lorcán Ua Tuathail), Augustinian Abbot of Glendalough, archbishop of Dublin, at the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland. Patron of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. Died 1180.
Feast of St. Renatus of Angers
Feast of St. Renatus of Angers (Saint-René d’Angers), Bishop of Angers, Anjou, France. One of the phallic saints invoked for fertility. Died 422.
Feast of St. Andrew Avellino
Feast of St. Andrew Avellino, Theatine Priest and Theologian, friend of St. Charles Borromeo. Patron of Naples and Sicily invoked against sudden death.
Feast of St. Leonard of Noblac
Feast of St. Leonard of Noblac, hermit, abbot founder, abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France. Patron of political prisoners, prisoners of war, captives, women in labor, and horses.
Feast of St. Sylvia
Feast of St. Sylvia, Mother of St. Gregory the Great. Native of Sicily, Italy. Patron of Pregnant Women.
Feast of St. Charles Borromeo
Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, Cardinal archbishop of Milan, Church reformer During the Counter-Reformation combating the Protestant Reformation. Patron of learning, the arts, apple orchards, bishops, catechumens, seminarians, stomach diseases and against ulcers.