Feast of Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary and abbess of Schönau in Nassau, Strüth, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She experienced ecstatic visions starting in 1152. Died in 1164.
Monthly Archives: June 2021
Feast of St. Botulph of Thorney
Feast of St. Botulph of Thorney, English missionary, monk and abbot, brother of St. Adulph. Patron saint of travelers and farming. Boston is abbreviation of Botolphston (Botolph’s town).
Feast of St. Crescentia
Feast of St. Crescentia, martyr at Lucania, companion of St. Vitus. Patron of actors, comedians, Czechoslovakia, dancers, dogs, epilepsy, oversleeping, Prague, Czech Republic, rheumatic chorea (Saint Vitus Dance), snake bites, storms, Zeven, Lower Saxony and E Clampus Vitus.
Feast of St. Lotharius of Séez
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
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. Columba
Feast of St. Columba (Colmcille), Irish abbot, founder and missionary, one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Founded Iona abbey. Patron of Derry, bookbinders, poets, Ireland, Scotland, against floods.
Feast of St. Landulf of Yariglia
Feast of St. Landulf of Yariglia, Benedictine Bishop of Asti, Italy. He studied at the Benedictine monastery of San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro in Pavia and joined Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan, on the Crusade of 1101. Landulf was elected Bishop of Asti in 1105.
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.