Feast of St. Jeanne Jugan, Sister Mary of the Cross, L.S.P., French nun, Founder, Little Sisters of the Poor. Patron of the destitute elderly.

Feast of St. Margaret the Barefooted, wife and model of charity. Patron of brides, difficult marriages, victims of abuse and widows. Died 1395 in San Severino, Italy.

Feast of St. Joseph Calasanctius, Spanish priest, theologian, confessor, synodal examiner, procurator, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools and the Piarists (Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools).  Patron of Catholic Schools.

Feast of Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot, mystic, Doctor of the Church, preached the 2nd Crusade. co-founder of the Knights Templar, leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order. Patron of Cistercians, Burgundy, beekeepers, Gibraltar, Algeciras, Knights Templar & Binangonan, P. I.

Feast of St. Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, founder and writer of Basque origin. Founder of the Hogar de Cristo foundation. Patron of Chile, poor people, street children and social workers.

Feast of St. Mamas of Caesarea, Child-Martyr, shepherd. Patron of Langres, France, breastfeeding babies, protector of sufferers of broken bones and hernias in Murero, Zaragoza, Spain.

Feast of St. Hyacinth, Dominican missionary, “Apostle of Poland”. Preached in Poland, Pomerania, Denmark, Prussia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Russia, China, Tibet. Patron of Lithuania & St. Hyacinth’s Basilica, 3636 W. Wolfram St., Chicago. Invoked by those in danger of drowning.

Feast of St. Tarsicius, martyred on the Appian Way while carrying the Eucharist to imprisoned Christians. Patron of first communicants.

Feast of St. Werenfrid of England (Werenfrid of Arnheim), Benedictine monk. Priest. Confessor, Missionary in Frisia. Born in England, studied in Ireland under St. Egbert, sent to convert the Frisians. Patron of vegetable gardeners, invoked against gout and stiff joints.