Feast of St. Lutgardis of Aywières (Lutgarde), Cistercian nun, prioress and mystic. Born in Tongeren, Belgium and had gifts of healing and prophecy.  Patron of blindness, childbirth, Flanders, the disabled and the handicapped. Died 1246.

Feast of St. Crescentia, martyr at Lucania, companion of St. Vitus. Patron of actors, comedians, Czechoslovakia, dancers, dogs, epilepsy, oversleeping, Prague, Czech Republic, rheumatic chorea (Saint Vitus Dance), snake bites, storms, Zeven, Lower Saxony and E Clampus Vitus.

Feast of St. Lotharius of Séez, Benedictine bishop, founder of Saint-Loyer-des-Champs Monastery in the forest of Argentan, France. Bishop of Séez, France for thirty-two years. Died 756.

Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Portuguese Franciscan priest & Doctor of the Church. Patron of lost articles, Lisbon, amputees, animals, elderly people, fishermen, harvests, horses, mail, mariners, pregnant women, travelers, Portugal, runts of litters & seekers of lost articles.

Feast of St. Onouphrius, hermit, one of the Desert Fathers. Patron of weavers, jurists and Centrache, Italy.

Feast of St. Barnabas, Prophet, Disciple, Martyr. He appears in the Acts of the Apostles and in several of St. Paul’s epistles. Martyred at Salamis, Cyprus, in 61 A.D. Patron of Cyprus, Antioch, against hailstorms, invoked as a peacemaker.

Feast of St. Columba (Colmcille), Irish abbot, founder and missionary, one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Founded Iona abbey. Patron of Derry, bookbinders, poets, Ireland, Scotland, against floods.

Feast of St. Boniface of Mainz, First archbishop of Mainz, the “Apostle of the Germans”, reformer of the Frankish church and creator of the papal and Carolingian family alliance. Patron of brewers, World Youth Day and Fulda, Germany.