Feast of St. Lotharius of Séez, Benedictine bishop, founder of Saint-Loyer-des-Champs Monastery in the forest of Argentan, France. Bishop of Séez, France for thirty-two years. Died 756.
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Portuguese Franciscan priest & Doctor of the Church. Patron of lost articles, Lisbon, amputees, animals, elderly people, fishermen, harvests, horses, mail, mariners, pregnant women, travelers, Portugal, runts of litters & seekers of lost articles.
Feast of St. Onouphrius
Feast of St. Onouphrius, hermit,one of the Desert Fathers. Patron of weavers, jurists, and Centrache, Italy.
Feast of St. Barnabas
Feast of St. Barnabas, Prophet, Disciple, Martyr. He appears in the Acts of the Apostles and in several of St. Paul’s epistles. Martyred at Salamis, Cyprus, in 61 A.D. Patron of Cyprus, Antioch, against hailstorms, invoked as a peacemaker.
Feast of St. Bogumilus
Feast of St. Bogumilus, Archbishop, founder, hermit.Studied in Paris, France. Founded Cistercian abbey at Koronowo, Poland. Archbishop of Gniezno, then joined the Camaldolese hermits at Uniedow, Poland. Patron of Gniezno. Died 1182.
Feast of St. Melania the Elder
Feast of St. Melania the Elder, Foundress, Desert Mother. Wealthy Roman, married a Proconsul, influential in the Christian ascetic movement, spiritual mentor to Evagrius of Pontus.
Feast of St. Marcellin Champagnat
Feast of St. Marcellin Champagnat, French Priest and Founder, The Marist Brothers of the Schools (the Little Brothers of Mary). Patron of Education and Teachers. Died 1840. Canonized in 1999.
Feast of St. Boniface of Mainz, First archbishop of Mainz, the “Apostle of the Germans”, reformer of the Frankish church, and creator papal and Carolingian family alliance. Patron of brewers, World Youth Day & Fulda, Germany
Feast of St. Walter
Feast of St. Walter, Benedictine hermit, abbot, founder and first abbot of the monastery of Serviliano, Ancona, Italy. Died 1250.
Feast of Juan Grande Román
Feast of Juan Grande Román, Spanish Brother, Hospitallers of St. John of God. He founded a hospital and devoted it to the Blessed Virgin Mary, He died of the plague after tending those who suffered from it. Patron Diocese of Jerez de la Frontera.