Feast of St. Drogo, penitential pilgrim, anchorite and orphan. Patron of coffee house owners, broken bones, cattle, deafness, hernias, insanity, unattractive people, bodily ills, gallstones, illness, midwives, mute people, mutes, orphans, ruptures, sheep, shepherds and sickness.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Feast of St. Hunna
Feast of St. Hunna, “the Holy Washerwoman”, noblewoman, daughter of a duke, married to Huno of Hunnawetyer. She was devoted to the poor of Strasbourg, France. Mother of St. Deodatus of Lagny. Patron of laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen.
Feast of St. Vissia of Fermo
Feast of St. Vissia of Fermo, Ccnsecrated virgin martyred in the persecutions of Decius. Patron of Fermo, Italy.
Feast of St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów
Feast of St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów, martyr and Bishop of Krakow. Killed by King Boleslaw II the Bold in 1079. First native Polish saint. Patron of Poland, Krakow, and moral order
Feast of St. Michael de Sanctis
Feast of St. Michael de Sanctis, Discalced Trinitarian priest from Vic, Catalonia, Spain. Twice elected superior of the monastery at Valladolid. The municipality of Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec, Canada, is named in his honor. Patron of cancer patients and Vic, Spain.
Feast of St. Waldetrudis
Feast of St. Waldetrudis, foundress, daughter of Sts. Walbert and Bertilia, Married to Madelgaire, Count of Hainault, mother of Sts. Landericus, Madalberta, Adeltrudis and Dentelin. Founded the convent of Sainte-Waudru. The city of Mons grew around it. Patron of Mons, Belgium
Feast of St. Walter of Pontoise
Feast of St. Walter of Pontoise, professor of philosophy and rhetoric before becoming a Benedictine monk at Rebais, later abbot at Pontoise. Patron of prisoners, prisoners of war, vintners, invoked against job-related stress.
Feast of St. William of Æbelholt
Feast of St. William of Æbelholt, French Missionary and Abbot. Born in Paris, ordained subdeacon, received a prebend in the church of Sainte-Geneviève-du-Mont. Abbot of the canonry of St. Thomas at Eskilsø, then abbot at Æbelholt, Denmark for 30 years. Died 1203.
Feast of St. Vincent Ferrer
Feast of St. Vincent Ferrer, Valencian Dominican missionary and logician, born Valencia, Spain. Patron of Archdiocese of Valencia, Builders, Prisoners, Construction workers, Plumbers, Fishermen and Spanish orphanages. Died 1419.
Feast of St. Benedict the Moor
Feast of St. Benedict the Moor, Italian Franciscan lay brother. Although illiterate, he became the Master of novices, and later Guardian of the community in his Franciscan Friary. Patron of African missions, African Americans, black missions, Palermo and San Fratello, Sicily.