Feast of St. Mechtildis (Mechtilde) of Hackeborn, the Nightingale of Helfta, Saxon Benedictine nun and mystic. One of the authors of the Book of Special Graces, promoting the devotion to the superabundant divine mercy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Patron against blindness.

Feast of St. Odo of Cluny, Benedictine Abbot, canon of the Church of St. Martin in Tours, studied philosophy under Remigius of Auxerre.  Second abbot of Cluny. He enacted various reforms in the Cluniac system of France and Italy. Patron for rain.

Feast of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (Gregory the Miracle-Worker), bishop.  Patron of desperate causes, floods, impossible causes, lost causes and against earthquakes.

Feast of St. Hugh of Lincoln, Carthusian monk of the Grande Chartreuse, Bishop of Lincoln. Patron of sick children, sick people, shoemakers and swans.

Feast of St. Albert the Great, 13th-century German Dominican bishop and Doctor of the Church. Scientist, philosopher, astrologer, theologian, spiritual writer, ecumenist and diplomat. Patron of scientists, medical technicians, natural sciences, philosophers and students.

Feast of St. Lawrence O’Toole (Lorcán Ua Tuathail), Augustinian Abbot of Glendalough, archbishop of Dublin, at the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland. Patron of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. Died 1180.

Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. First American citizen canonized. Patron of immigrants. The National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini is at 2520 N Lakeview Ave, Chicago.

Feast of St. Renatus of Angers (Saint-René d’Angers), Bishop of Angers, Anjou, France. One of the phallic saints invoked for fertility. Died 422.

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.