Feast of St. Jean de Brebeuf, Jesuit missionary in New France, martyred by Iroquois. He was canonized with Jérôme Lalemant and six other Jesuits who were killed in New France (collectively called the Canadian Martyrs or North American Martyrs) in 1930. Patron saint of Canada.

Feast of St. Marie Magdalen Desjardin, Ursuline martyr of the French Revolution. She was guillotined in Valenciennes. Beatified in 1920.

Feast of St. Gerard Majella, Italian Redemptorist sacristan, gardener, porter, infirmarian and tailor. Patron of expectant mothers.

Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, Founder Discalced Carmelites. Patron of headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers.

Feast of St. Calixtus, Pope and Martyr. Succeeded St. Zephyrinus as Pope. Patron of Cemetery workers.

Feast of St. Colman of Stockerau, martyr. Irish pilgrim en route to the Holy Land mistaken for a spy. Patron of hanged men, horses, Austria, Melk. Invoked for husbands by marriageable girls, against hanging, plague and gout.

Feast of St. Edwin of Northumbria, Martyr King. Patron of converts, hobos, homeless people, kings and parents of large families.

Feast of St. Gereon of Cologne, called the “Golden Saint”, Theban Legionnaire, Martyred on the Lower Rhine River at Xanten. Invoked against headaches and migraine.

Feast of St. Ywi of Lindisfarne, Northumbrian Benedictine monk and hermit at Lindisfarne Abbey, England. He was ordained a deacon by St. Cuthbert. Died in 690.

Feast of St. Justina of Padua, Virgin princess martyred in Padua during the Diocletanic persecution. Patron of Padua and Palmanova, Italy.