Feast of St. Eusebia, Benedictine abbess, daughter of Sts. Adalbald and Rictrudis. Elected abbess of Hamage Abbey in France at 12. Died 680.

Feast of St. Louise de Marillac, co-founder, (with St. Vincent de Paul), the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Patron of disappointing children, loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, sick people, social workers, Vincentian Service Corps and widows.

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.