Feast of Sts. Fragan & Gwen, the parents of Sts. Jacut, Guithem and Winwaloe and Feast of St. Antonio Maria Zaccharia, medical doctor, priest and cofounder, Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (the Barnabites) in 1530. Popularized the 40 Hours devotion. Patron The Barnabite order.

Feast of St. Phocas the Gardener, martyr. Phocas was a gardener living at Sinope, on the Black Sea, who aided persecuted Christians during the Diocletianic persecutions. Patron of gardeners, hospitality, agricultural workers, farmers, sailors and mariners.

Feast of St. Otto of Bamberg, medieval German bishop, missionary, chaplain to the Polish court, emperor’s chancellor and papal legate.  Supervised the construction of Speyer Cathedral and negotiated the peace treaty – the Concordat of Worms.  Called the Apostle of Pomerania.

Feast of St. Otto of Bamberg, medieval German bishop, missionary, chaplain to the Polish court, emperor’s chancellor and papal legate.  Supervised the construction of Speyer Cathedral and negotiated the peace treaty – the Concordat of Worms.  Called the Apostle of Pomerania.

Feast of St. Theobald of Provins,  hermit and monk. Patron of farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, belt makers, charcoal-burners and bachelors.

Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles.  Peter – patron of bakers, bridge builders, butchers, fishermen.  Paul – patron of missionaries and theologians.

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. Hemma of Gurk, noblewoman and founder of churches and monasteries.  Patron of the Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt, the State of Carinthia, Austria, invoked during childbirth, against extreme hangovers and diseases of the eye

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. Mother Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala (Mother Lupita), co-founder, the Congregation of the Handmaids of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Poor.  Canonized on May 12 2013 by Pope Francis. Patron of Nurses and the Handmaids of Santa Margherita Maria and the Poor.