Feast of St. Theobald of Provins, hermit and monk. Patron of farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, belt makers, charcoal-burners and bachelors.
Monthly Archives: June 2025
Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul
Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles. Peter – patron of bakers, bridge builders, butchers, fishermen. Paul – patron of missionaries and theologians.
Feast of St. Irenaeus
Feast of St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr. Greek cleric who guiding and expanding Christian communities in what is now the south of France. Bishop of Lugdunum (Lyon), his best-known work is On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis, ending the spread of Gnosticism.
Feast of St. Hemma of Gurk
Feast of St. Hemma of Gurk, noblewoman and founder of churches and monasteries. Patron of the Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt, the State of Carinthia, Austria, invoked during childbirth, against extreme hangovers and diseases of the eye
Feast of St. Pelagius of Cordova
Feast of St. Pelagius of Cordova, martyred by the Caliph of Córdoba. Patron of abandoned people, torture victims & Castro Urdiales, Spain. Remembered in the poem by Rhoswitha of Gandersheim (Latin: Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis) – The Passion of Pelagius written in Leonine hexameter.
Feast of St. Mother Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala
Feast of St. Mother Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala (Mother Lupita), co-founder, the Congregation of the Handmaids of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Poor. Canonized on May 12 2013 by Pope Francis. Patron of Nurses and the Handmaids of Santa Margherita Maria and the Poor.
Feast of St. AIban of Mainz
Feast of St. AIban of Mainz, priest, missionary, preacher, martyr, companion of St. Ursus, slain by the Vandals. Patron of hernia, epilepsy, gravel and kidney stones.
Feast of St. Florentina
Feast of St. Florentina, Spanish abbess, sister of Saints Leander, Isidore and Fulgentius. Founded the convent of Santa Maria de Valle near Ecija, Spain.
Feast of St. Juliana Falconieri
Feast of St. Juliana Falconieri, foundress of the Religious Sisters of the Third Order of Servites (the Servite Tertiaries). Patron of bodily ills, sick people and sickness.
Feast of Elisabeth of Schönau
Feast of Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary and abbess of Schönau in Nassau, Strüth, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She experienced ecstatic visions starting in 1152. Died in 1164.