Feast of St. John of Bridlington, novice master, almsgiver, preacher, sub-prior, Canon and Prior – Augustinian Canons Regular community of the Priory of Bridlington. Last English saint canonized before the English Reformation. Patron of fishermen and women in difficult labor.

Feast of St. Paul of the Cross Italian mystic, founder of the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (Passionists). The congregation has two goals: missionary work and contemplative life.

Feast of St. Jean de Brebeuf, Jesuit missionary in New France, martyred by Iroquois. He was canonized with Jérôme Lalemant and six other Jesuits who were killed in New France (collectively called the Canadian Martyrs or North American Martyrs) in 1930. Patron saint of Canada.

Feast of St. Luke, one of the Four Evangelists – author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Patron of physicians, surgeons, artists, bachelors, farmers, brewers, butchers, glass makers, glaziers, lacemakers, notaries, painters, sculptors and stained glass artists.

Feast of St. Gerard Majella, Italian Redemptorist sacristan, gardener, porter, infirmarian and tailor. Patron of expectant mothers.

Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, Founder Discalced Carmelites. Patron of headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers.

Feast of St. Calixtus, Pope and Martyr. Succeeded St. Zephyrinus as Pope. Patron of Cemetery workers.

Feast of St. Edwin of Northumbria, Martyr King. Patron of converts, hobos, homeless people, kings and parents of large families.

Feast of St. Gummarus, an official in the court of Pepin the Younger, King of the Franks, later a hermit at Nivesdunc. Patron of childless people, courtiers, cowherds, difficult marriages, glove makers, hernia sufferers, separated spouses and woodcutters.

Feast of St. Ywi of Lindisfarne, Northumbrian Benedictine monk and hermit at Lindisfarne Abbey, England. He was ordained a deacon by St. Cuthbert. Died in 690.