Feast of St. Theobald of Provins, hermit and monk. Patron of farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, belt makers, charcoal-burners and bachelors.
Monthly Archives: June 2026
Feast of St. Irenaeus
Feast of St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr. Greek cleric who guiding and expanding Christian communities in what is now the south of France. Bishop of Lugdunum (Lyon), his best-known work is On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis, ending the spread of Gnosticism.
Feast of St. Laszlo
Feast of St. Laszlo, chivalrous King of Hungary & Croatia, son of King Bela of Hungary, Father of Empress Irene. Patron of architecture
Feast of St. Pelagius of Cordova
Feast of St. Pelagius of Cordova, martyred by the Caliph of Córdoba. Patron of abandoned people, torture victims & Castro Urdiales, Spain. Remembered in the poem by Rhoswitha of Gandersheim (Latin: Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis) – The Passion of Pelagius written in Leonine hexameter.
Feast of St. Prosper of Aquitaine
Feast of St. Prosper of Aquitaine, writer, disciple of St. Augustine of Hippo, aggressive propagandist for the Augustinian doctrine of grace who chose the writings that became the decrees of the 529 Council of Orange.
Feast of St. Joseph Cafasso
Feast of St. Joseph Cafasso, Italian priest, Franciscan Tertiary, the “Priest of the Gallows” and one of the Social Saints. Patron of Italian prisons, prison chaplains, prisoners and those condemned to death.
Feast of St. AIban of Mainz
Feast of St. AIban of Mainz, priest, missionary, preacher, martyr, companion of St. Ursus, slain by the Vandals. Patron of hernia, epilepsy, gravel and kidney stones.
Feast of St. Florentina
Feast of St. Florentina, Spanish abbess, sister of Saints Leander, Isidore and Fulgentius. Founded the convent of Santa Maria de Valle near Ecija, Spain.
Feast of St. Juliana Falconieri
Feast of St. Juliana Falconieri, foundress of the Religious Sisters of the Third Order of Servites (the Servite Tertiaries). Patron of bodily ills, sick people and sickness.
Feast of Elisabeth of Schönau
Feast of Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary and abbess of Schönau in Nassau, Strüth, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She experienced ecstatic visions starting in 1152. Died in 1164.