Feast of St. Denis of Paris, bishop, martyr and cephalophore (martyred by beheading). The first bishop of Paris, the Apostle of France and one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Patron of France, Paris, possessed people, against frenzy, strife, hydrophobia and headaches.
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Feast of St. Ywi of Lindisfarne
Feast of St. Ywi of Lindisfarne, Northumbrian Benedictine monk and hermit at Lindisfarne Abbey, England. He was ordained a deacon by St. Cuthbert. Died in 690.
Feast of St. Justina of Padua
Feast of St. Justina of Padua, Virgin princess martyred in Padua during the Diocletanic persecution. Patron of Padua and Palmanova, Italy.
Feast of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
Feast of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, Franciscan tertiary, mystic and stigmatic. Patron of Naples, Italy. Died in 1791.
Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu
Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, virgin, Hospitaller nun of St. John of Jerusalem. Patron of the abandoned, converts, single women and victims of betrayal.
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, friar, deacon & preacher. Founder of the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Patron Saint of animals, ecologists, merchants, the environment, Italy, stowaways, Cub Scouts.
Feast of St. Mother Theodore Guerin
Feast of St. Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Patron, Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana.
Feast of St. Leodegarius
Feast of St. Leodegarius, martyred Burgundian Benedictine Bishop of Autun, Abbott of St. Maxentius, son of St. Sigrada and the brother of St. Warinus. Patron of millers, invoked against blindness, eye disease and eye problems.
Feast of St. Romanus the Melodist
Feast of St. Romanus the Melodist, hymnographer of 1000 compositions, some master works of religious literature. One of the greatest of Syrio-Greek hymnographers of the 6th century, during the “Golden Age” of Byzantine hymnography. Patron of church singers.