Feast of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, O.F.M. priest, theologian, Doctor of the Church, vicar general of the Capuchins, imperial chaplain for the army of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II, He led the liberation of Székesfehérvár, Hungary armed only with a crucifix. Patron of Brindisi.

Feast of St. Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Patron of childbirth, pregnant women, dying people, kidney disease, peasants, exiles, falsely accused people, Lowestoft, England, Queens’ College, Cambridge, nurses, Sannat and Bormla, Malta.

Feast of Sts. Justa and Rufina, Virgin Martyrs, potters. The two saints are highly honored in the medieval Mozarabic Liturgy. Patrons of Seville, Spain, guilds of alfareros (potters) and cacharreros (sellers of pottery), protectors of La Giralda and the Cathedral of Seville.

Feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, Priest and Founder, Order of Clerks Regular, Ministers of the Infirm (M.I.), better known as the Camillians. Director of St. Giacomo Hospital, Rome. Patron of the sick, hospitals, nurses and physicians.

Feast of St. Hedwig (Jadwiga) of Poland, the first queen regnant of the Kingdom of Poland, ascended the throne at age thirteen. Married Jagiello of Lithuania. Patron of Queens and United Europe. Canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1997.

Feast of St. Reineldis, virgin daughter of Count Witger and St. Arnalberga, sister of St. Gudula. Martyred by the Huns. Patron of open wounds and against eye disease.

Feast of St. Swithun, Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester, chaplain to Egbert of the Saxons, tutor to Ethelwulf.  Patron of Winchester Cathedral and the weather.  Tradition: if it rains on St. Swithun’s bridge today, it will rain for forty days!

Feast of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk Virgin, the first Native American to be declared a Saint. Patron of the environment and ecology.

Feast of St. Henry, Holy Roman Emperor, Oblate of Saint Benedict. Married to Cunigunde of Luxembourg (later canonized), Patron saint of the childless, of Dukes, the handicapped and those rejected by Religious Orders.

Feast of St. John Gaulbert, Florentine noble,  Abbott and founder of the Vallumbrosan Order. Patron of forest workers, foresters, park rangers, parks, Badia di Passignano, the Vallumbrosan Order, Florence, Italian Forest Corps and Brazilian forests.