Feast of St. Matilda, wife of King Henry I of Germany (Henry the Fowler). Mother of three – Otho, Emperor, Henry, Duke of Bavaria and St. Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne. She is buried in St. Servatius Church, Quedlinburg Abbey. Patron parents of large families.

Feast of St. Ansovinus, Bishop and confessor, counselor to Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor. Bishop of Camerino, Macerata, Marche, Italy. Patron of gardeners, invoked for good harvests. Died 840.

Feast of St. Paul Aurelian, Bishop & Founder, first bishop of Quimper & Léon, one of the seven founder saints of Brittany. A pupil of St. Illtud at Ynys Byr, he established monasteries in Finistère, at Lampaul, Ushant Island & Batz Island, Brittany. Consecrated bishop at Ocsimor.

Feast of St. Sophronius of Jerusalem, monk, theologian and Patriarch.  Called the Sophist, he wrote the Florilegium, the life of St. John the Almsgive, the life of St. Mary of Egypt and composed 23 anacreontic odes on the feasts of the church.  Died 638.

Feast of St. Kessog, Martyr, Prince, bishop, missionary active in the Lennox and southern Perthshire areas. Son of the King of Cashel in Ireland, he was a missionary bishop in Scotland. The Kessog oil field in the North Sea is named after the saint. Patron of Scotland and Lennox.

Feast of St. Catherine of Bologna, Italian artist, founder, abbess, cloistered nun of The Poor Clares and author Seven Spiritual Weapons Necessary for Spiritual Warfare. Patron of artists, Bologna, Italy Liberal arts and against temptations.   Died 1463.

Feast of St. Piran (Pyran), Fifth-century Cornish abbot and hermit.  St. Piran’s Day is the National Day of Cornwall.  Patron of tin miners and Cornwall, although St .Michael and St. Petroc also have some claim to the title.

Feast of St. Casimir of Poland, crown prince of the Kingdom of Poland. Patron of Lithuania, Poland, youth, Knights of St. John. Died 1483.

Feast of St. Katharine Drexel, American heiress, philanthropist, religious sister, educator and founder – Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. The 2nd canonized saint born in the United States and the 1st to have been born a U.S. citizen. Patron of racial justice and philanthropy.