Feast of St. Peter of Tarantaise, French Cistercian abbot and archbishop of Tarentaise at the insistence of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The first abbot of Tamie, France. Patron of Tarentaise, France.

Feast of St. Domitian of Huy, Gaullic bishop of sixth century Tongeren, the Apostle of the Meuse Valley. Patron of Huy, Belgium, invoked against fevers. Died 560.

Feast of St. Petronax of Monte Cassino, Italian monk and Benedictine Abbot, “the Second Founder of Monte Cassino”. Rebuilt monastery after destruction by Lombards. St. Willibald and St. Sturmius of Fulda were monks under Petronax.  Died 747

Feast of St. Florian, Roman Martyr.  Commander of the imperial Roman army in Noricum. Patron of Kraków, Poland, chimneysweeps, soap boilers, Upper Austria and firefighters. The Florian cross is the basis of Fire Department symbols worldwide.

Feast of St. James the Lesser, first Bishop of Jerusalem, author of the first Epistle, son of Alphaeus and Mary, a relative of the Blessed Virgin. Patron of hat makers.

Feast of St. Waldebert, Benedictine abbot.  Born a Frankish count of Guines, Ponthieu and Saint-Pol, became the third abbot of Luxeuil, France. Died 668.

Feast of St. Waldebert, Benedictine abbot.  Born a Frankish count of Guines, Ponthieu and Saint-Pol, became the third abbot of Luxeuil, France. Died 668.

Feast of St. Peregrine Laziosi, Servite priest and founder, Servite house in Forli, Italy. Patron of AIDS and cancer victims. The National Shrine of St. Peregrine is located at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica, 3121 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago.