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.
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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.
Feast of St. Botulph of Thorney
Feast of St. Botulph of Thorney, English missionary, monk and abbot, brother of St. Adulph. Patron saint of travelers and farming. Boston is abbreviation of Botolphston (Botolph’s town).
Feast of St. Lutgardis of Aywières
Feast of St. Lutgardis of Aywières (Lutgarde), Cistercian nun, prioress and mystic. Born in Tongeren, Belgium, and had gifts of healing and prophecy. Patron of blindness, childbirth, Flanders, the disabled and the handicapped. Died 1246.
Feast of St. Crescentia
Feast of St. Crescentia, martyr at Lucania, companion of St. Vitus. Patron of actors, comedians, Czechoslovakia, dancers, dogs, epilepsy, oversleeping, Prague, Czech Republic, rheumatic chorea (Saint Vitus Dance), snake bites, storms, Zeven, Lower Saxony and E Clampus Vitus.
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Portuguese Franciscan priest & Doctor of the Church. Patron of lost articles, Lisbon, amputees, animals, elderly people, fishermen, harvests, horses, mail, mariners, pregnant women, travelers, Portugal, runts of litters & seekers of lost articles.
Feast of St. Onouphrius
Feast of St. Onouphrius, hermit, one of the Desert Fathers. Patron of weavers, jurists, and Centrache, Italy
Feast of St. Barnabas
Feast of St. Barnabas, Prophet, Disciple, Martyr. He appears in the Acts of the Apostles and in several of St. Paul’s epistles. Martyred at Salamis, Cyprus, in 61 A.D. Patron of Cyprus, Antioch, against hailstorms, invoked as a peacemaker.