Feast of St. Lidwina of Schiedam, Dutch mystic. Patron of sickness, suffering, chronically ill, ice skaters, town of Schiedam, Holland. Died 1433.  Canonized 1890.

Feast of St. Hermengild, son of king Leovigild of Visigothic Spain. He married Ingund, a Chalcedonian Christian, in 579. Called a” Catholic martyr rebelling against the tyranny of an Arian father” in Pope Gregory I’s Dialogues.  Patron of Seville, Spain.

Feast of Zeno of Verona, Bishop and Martyr. A native of Mauretania (modern Morocco and Algeria), Zeno was a monk elected successor to Bishop Gricinus of Verona. He is the patron saint of fishermen, the city of Verona, newborn babies as well as children learning to speak and walk.

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. John Baptist de la Salle, French priest, founder, the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Patron of teachers.

Feast of St. William of Æbelholt, French Missionary & Abbot. Born in Paris, ordained subdeacon, 42nd abbot of Saint-Germain-des-Prés at Paris, received a prebend in the church of Sainte-Geneviève-du-Mont. Abbot, canonry of St. Thomas at Eskilsø, then abbot at Æbelholt, Denmark.

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, 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.

Feast of St. Richard of Chichester also known as Richard de Wyche, Bishop of Chichester, chancellor of Canterbury. Richard was merciless to usurers, corrupt clergy and priests who mumbled the Mass.  Patron of Coachmen, Diocese of Chichester & Sussex, England.