Feast of St. Agnes of Rome, virgin and martyr. She rests below the high altar of Sant’Agnese fuori le Mura, (Basilica of St. Agnes Outside the Wall) Rome, Italy. Patron of chastity, gardeners, girls, engaged couples, rape survivors, virgins and the Children of Mary. Died in 304.

Feast of St. Sebastian, Martyr. He served in the Praetorian Guard to protect Emperor Diocletian. Shot with arrows, recovered by Irene of Rome and nursed back to health. He was later beaten to death. Patron of soldiers, athletes, archers and against plague.

Feast of St. Wulfstan, Benedictine, Bishop of Worcester, England.  Born at Long Itchington, Warwickshire.  Canonized in May 1203. Patron of vegetarians and dieters.

Feast of St. Deicola, Irish Monk, brother of Saint Gall. One of 12 disciples of St. Columbanus. Patron of childhood illnesses. Died 62

Feast of St. Mildgytha, Benedictine nun, abbess, daughter of St. Ermenburg and King Merewalh of Mercia. Her sisters were Sts. Milburga and Mildrith. The three sisters have been likened to the three theological virtues: Mildburh to faith, Mildgyth to hope and Mildrith to charity.

Feast of St. Honoratus of Arles, Bishop, founder, Lerins Abbey, France.  Patron for rain, against rain, against drought and against misfortune./

Feast of St. Arnold Janssen, German-Dutch priest and missionary, Founder, Society of the Divine Word, the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, and Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters. Canonized October 5, 2003 by Pope John Paul II.

Feast of St. Macrina the Elder, Grandmother of Sts. Basil & Gregory of Nyssa. Patron of widows, invoked against poverty.

Feast of St. Kentigern Mungo, first bishop of the Strathclyde Britons, son of a British princess, raised by St. Serf. He is known as the Apostle of Northwestern England and Southwestern Scotland. Patron of Penicuik, Glasgow, salmon, Scotland and against bullies.

Feast of St. Benedict Biscop, Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Abbot, founder, Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory, Jarrow, England. Former thegn of King Oswiu. Patron of English Benedictines, musicians, painters, Sunderland, England.