Feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa), nun, missionary and founder, Missionaries of Charity. Recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Patron of World Youth Day, Missionaries of Charity and co-patron of the Archdiocese of Calcutta.


Feast of St. Gregory the Great. Pope, Bishop of Rome, Doctor of the Church & one of the Latin Fathers. Known as the Father of Christian Worship, he contributed to the development of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. Patron of musicians, singers, students & teachers.

Feast of St. Nonossus, Benedictine monk of Mt. Soracte, Italy. Patron of Freising Germany, Castel Sant’Elia, dioceses of Sutri and Nepi, Invoked against physical defects, back pains and school-related student crises.

Feast of St. Giles, Abbot. One of the fourteen Holy Helpers. Patron of breast cancer, breast-feeding, cancer patients, beggars, blacksmiths, the disabled, mental illness, sterility, epilepsy, fear of night, forests, hermits, horses, outcasts, the poor and lepers.

Feast of St. Jeanne Jugan, Sister Mary of the Cross, L.S.P., French nun, Founder, Little Sisters of the Poor. Patron of the destitute elderly.

Feast of St. Margaret the Barefooted, wife and model of charity. Patron of brides, difficult marriages, victims of abuse and widows. Died 1395 in San Severino, Italy.

Feast of St. Joseph Calasanctius, Spanish priest, theologian, confessor, synodal examiner, procurator, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools and the Piarists (Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools).  Patron of Catholic Schools.

Feast of Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot, mystic, Doctor of the Church, preached the 2nd Crusade. co-founder of the Knights Templar, leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order. Patron of Cistercians, Burgundy, beekeepers, Gibraltar, Algeciras, Knights Templar & Binangonan, P. I.

Feast of St. Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, founder and writer of Basque origin. Founder of the Hogar de Cristo foundation. Patron of Chile, poor people, street children and social workers.

Feast of St. Mamas of Caesarea, Child-Martyr, shepherd. Patron of Langres, France, breastfeeding babies, protector of sufferers of broken bones and hernias in Murero, Zaragoza, Spain.