Feast of St. Martin of Tours, Bishop and founder, Abbey of Marmoutier, France.  Patron of Soldiers, the poor, vintners, tailors, France, geese, horses and conscientious objectors.

Feast of St. Andrew Avellino, Theatine Priest and Theologian, friend of St. Charles Borromeo. Patron of Naples and Sicily, invoked against sudden death.

Feast of St. Theodore of Amasea (Theodore Tyro), Roman warrior saint and Great Martyr. Venerated in the Eastern Church as one of the three “Soldier Saints,” with George and Demetrios.  Patron of soldiers, Brindisi, recovery of lost articles and against storms.

Feast of St. Castorius, one of the four crowned martyrs of Pannonia, Hungary.  Patron of sculptors, stonemasons, stonecutters, against fever

Feast of St. Willibrord, missionary archbishop, Apostle of Frisia. Patron of convulsions, epileptics, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Utrecht.

Feast of St. Leonard of Noblac, hermit, abbot founder, abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France. Patron of political prisoners, prisoners of war, captives, women in labor and horses.

Feast of St. Sylvia, Mother of St. Gregory the Great. Native of Sicily, Italy. Patron of Pregnant Women.

Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, Cardinal archbishop of Milan, Church reformer During the Counter-Reformation combating the Protestant Reformation. Patron of learning, the arts, apple orchards, bishops, catechumens, seminarians, stomach diseases and against ulcers.

Feast of St. Martin de Porres, Peruvian Dominican lay brother. Patron of hair stylists, innkeepers, lottery, lottery winners, mixed-race people, Peru, poor people, public health, public schools, race relations, social justice, television, Mexico, Mississippi and Vietnam.

Feast of St. Jorandus, Benedictine hermit at Kergrist and Saint-Juhec in Pedernec, France. Died in 1340.