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 Sturmius of Fulda were monks under Petronax. Died 747.

Feast of St. Jutta of Kulmsee, German aristocrat, wife and mother. Patron of Prussia. Died in 1260.

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. 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.