Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, virgin, Hospitaller nun of St. John of Jerusalem. Patron of the abandoned, converts, single women and victims of betrayal

Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, friar, deacon & preacher. Founder of the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of St. Clare, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Patron of animals, ecologists, merchants, the environment, Italy, stowaways, Cub Scouts.

Feast of St. Leodegarius, martyred Burgundian Benedictine Bishop of Autun, Abbott of St. Maxentius, son of St. Sigrada and the brother of St. Warinus.  Patron of millers, invoked against blindness, eye disease and eye problems.

Feast of St. Romanus the Melodist, hymnographer of 1000 compositions, some master works of religious literature. One of the greatest of Syrio-Greek hymnographers of the 6th century, during the “Golden Age” of Byzantine hymnography. Patron of church singers.