Feast of St. Walter of Pontoise, professor of philosophy and rhetoric before becoming a Benedictine monk at Rebais, later abbot at Pontoise. Patron of prisoners, prisoners of war, vintners, invoked against job-related stress.

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.

Feast of St. Urban of Langres, Bishop.  Brother of St. Leodegaria.  Patron of Langres, Dijon, vine-growers, vine-dressers, gardeners, vintners and coopers, invoked against blight, frost, storms, alcoholism and faintness.

Feast of St. Hugh of Châteauneuf, Benedictine bishop and founder.  Bishop of Grenoble, partisan of the Gregorian reform.  Gave St. Bruno the land for the Grande Chartreuse monastery, starting the Carthusians.      Patron of Grenoble, France and against headaches.