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.
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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. Lotharius of Séez
Feast of St. Lotharius of Séez, Benedictine bishop, founder of Saint-Loyer-des-Champs Monastery in the forest of Argentan, France. Bishop of Séez, France for thirty-two years. Died 756.
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.
Feast of St. Columba
Feast of St. Columba (Colmcille), Irish abbot, founder and missionary, one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Founded Iona abbey. Patron of Derry, bookbinders, poets, Ireland, Scotland, against floods.
Feast of St. Boniface of Mainz
Feast of St. Boniface of Mainz, First archbishop of Mainz, the “Apostle of the Germans”, reformer of the Frankish church and creator of the papal and Carolingian family alliance. Patron of brewers, World Youth Day and Fulda, Germany.
Feast of St. Petronilla
Feast of St. Petronilla, Roman virgin and martyr. Patron of The Dauphins of France, mountain travelers and treaties between Popes and Frankish emperors. Invoked against fever.
Feast of St. Maximinus of Trier
Feast of St. Maximinus (Maximin) of Trier, fifth Bishop of Trier, opponent of Arianism. Patron of Trier. Invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains