Feast of St. Gummarus, an official in the court of Pepin the Younger, King of the Franks, later a hermit at Nivesdunc. Patron of childless people, courtiers, cowherds, difficult marriages, glove makers, hernia sufferers, separated spouses and woodcutters.

Feast of St. Gereon of Cologne, called the “Golden Saint”, Theban Legionnaire, Martyred on the Lower Rhine River at Xanten. Invoked against headaches and migraine.

Feast of St. Denis of Paris, bishop, martyr and cephalophore (martyred by beheading). The first bishop of Paris, the Apostle of France and one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.  Patron of France, Paris, possessed people, against frenzy, strife, hydrophobia and headaches.

Feast of St. Justina of Padua, Virgin princess martyred in Padua during the Diocletanic persecution. Patron of Padua and Palmanova, Italy.

Feast of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, Franciscan tertiary, mystic and stigmatic. Patron of Naples, Italy. Died October 6, 1791.

Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, virgin, Hospitaller nun of St. John of Jerusalem. Patron of the abandoned, converts, single women and victims of betrayal.

Feast of St. Mother Theodore Guerin, foundress, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Patron, Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana.

Feast of St. Leodegarius, martyred Burgundian Benedictine Bishop of Autun, Abbott of St. Maxentius, son of St. Sigrada and the brother of St. Warinus.  Patron of millers, invoked against blindness, eye disease and eye problems.

Feast of St. Romanus the Melodist, hymnographer of 1000 compositions, some master works of religious literature. One of the greatest of Syrio-Greek hymnographers of the 6th century, during the “Golden Age” of Byzantine hymnography. Patron of church singers.

Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, triumphant leader of God’s armies against Satan. Patron of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, firefighters, paramedics, police officers, Vatican City, Germany, France, Ukraine and Guardian of the Catholic Church.