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. 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.

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. Thomas More, English lawyer, author, statesman, councilor to Henry VIII and Lord High Chancellor of England. He was convicted of treason and beheaded. Patron of Adopted children, civil servants, difficult marriages, large families, lawyers, politicians & statesmen.

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, 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, foundress of the Religious Sisters of the Third Order of Servites (the Servite Tertiaries). Patron of bodily ills, sick people and sickness.

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, 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, English missionary, monk and abbot, brother of St. Adulph. Patron saint of travelers and farming. Boston is a contraction of Botolphston (Botolph’s town).