Feast of St. Cajetan, priest, lawyer, reformer, founder, Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence (Theatines). Patron of bankers, the unemployed, workers, gamers, gamblers, job seekers, Albania, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Feast of St. Hormisdas, Pope. Successor to St. Symmachus and father of Pope St. Silverius. Ended the Acacian Schism in 519. Died in 523.

Feast of St. Nonna of Nazianzus, the wife of St. Gregory of Nazianzus the Elder and mother of St. Gregory of Nazianzus (Gregory the Theologian), St. Caesarius and St. Gorgonia. She lived in Cappadocia, present-day Turkey. Patron of death of children and information services.

Feast of St. Jean Baptist Marie Vianney, the “Curé  of Ars”, parish priest of Ars, France, confessor and director of souls. Patron of parish priests, confessors, Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney, Archdiocese of Dubuque, Archdiocese of Kansas City.

Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, Spanish knight, hermit, priest, theologian & founder, the Society of Jesus, 1st Superior General of the Jesuits in 1541. Wrote the Spiritual Exercises in 1548.  Patron of spiritual retreats, soldiers, Society of Jesus, Diocese of Buenos Aires.

Feast of St. Peter Chrysologus (“golden-worded”), Bishop of Ravenna, Confessor and Doctor of the Church, the “Doctor of Homilies”, famous for short, inspiring homilies. Contemporary portrait is found in the mosaics of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Ravenna, Italy.

Feast of St. Olaf (Olaf II Haraldsson), Norse pirate, King and Martyr. Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae who unified and converted Norway.Canonized at Nidaros one year after his death in the Battle of Stiklestad. Patron of carvers, difficult marriages, Kings, Faroe Islands and Norway.

Feast of St. Alphonsa, sister of the Poor Clares, the first person of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint, born in Kudamaloor, Kottayam district, Kerala, India. Patron against illness.

Feast of St. Pantaleon, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution. Patron of physicians, midwives, livestock, lottery, lottery winners.  Invoked against headaches, locusts, witchcraft, accidents and loneliness

Feast of St. Bartholomea Capitanjo, Foundress, the Italian Sisters of Charity of Lovere with St. Vincenzia Gerosa. Patron of teachers, Sisters of Charity of Lovere and Lovere, Italy.