Feast of St. Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot following Judas’ betrayal of Jesus.  Patron of alcoholics, carpenters, tailors, Gary Indiana, Great Falls-Billings Montana, smallpox, hope and perseverance.

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, 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, 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, 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.

Feast of St. Domitian of Huy, Gaullic bishop of sixth century Tongeren, the Apostle of the Meuse Valley. Patron of Huy, Belgium, invoked against fevers. Died 560.

Feast of St. Florian, Roman Martyr.  Commander of the imperial Roman army in Noricum. Patron of Kraków, Poland, chimneysweeps, soap boilers, Upper Austria and firefighters. Florian cross is the basis of Fire Dept. symbols worldwide.

Feast of St. James the Lesser, first Bishop of Jerusalem, author, first Epistle, son of Alphaeus and Mary, a relative of the Blessed Virgin. Patron of hat makers.