Feast of St. Bernard Valeara of Teramo, Bishop. A Benedictine monk at Monte Cassino Abbey, appointed Bishop of Teramo in 1115. Brother of Blessed Colomba of Mount Brancastello. Patron of Teramo, Italy.
Monthly Archives: December 2021
Feast of St. Winebald
Feast of St. Winebald, Benedictine Abbot, missionary, son of St. Richard the Pilgrim, brother of Sts. Willibald and Walburga, nephew of St. Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz.Founded the double monastery of Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm, Germany.
Feast of St. Jose Manyanet y Vives
Feast of St. Jose Manyanet y Vives, Catalan priest. Founder Congregation of the Sons of the Holy Family and the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family. Born Tremp, Lleida, Kingdom of Spain. Patron Sons of the Holy Family and Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family.
Feast of St. Adelaide
Feast of St. Adelaide, Holy Roman Empress and Founder of many monasteries.Patron of brides, exiles, in-law problems, parents of large families, princesses, prisoners, second marriages, stepparents and widows.
Feast of St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa
Feast of St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, founder of the Handmaids of Charity in Brescia, Italy, in 1839. Died in 1855.
Feast of St. John of the Cross
Feast of St. John of the Cross, (San Juan de la Cruz), Carmelite friar and priest, Spanish mystic, one of the thirty-six Doctors of the Church, writer of mystical Spanish literature. Patron of Contemplative life, contemplatives, mystical theology, mystics, and Spanish poets.
Feast of St. Lucy
Feast of St. Lucy (Santa Lucia), martyr, died during the Diocletianic Persecution. Patron the blind, martyrs, Perugia & Syracuse, Italy, Mtarfa, Malta, epidemics, salesmen, throat infections and writers. Today’s Scandinavian festival of light signals the arrival of Christmastide.
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, appeared to St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin in 1531.Patron of the Americas.
Feast of St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
Feast of St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Mexican convert visited by the Virgin Mary. First indigenous saint from the Americas. Patron of Indigenous people.
Feast of St. Romaric
Feast of St. Romaric, monk and founder, Frankish nobleman, Count Palatine in the court of Merovingian king, Theodebert II, Monk at Luxeuil. Romaric and his friend St. Amatus founded a monastery later given the name of Remiremont, Vosges, France.