Feast of St. Gerard Majella, Italian Redemptorist sacristan, gardener, porter, infirmarian, and tailor. Patron of expectant mothers.

Feast of St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, Founder Discalced Carmelites. Patron of Headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers.

Feast of St. Calixtus, Pope and Martyr. Succeeded St. Zephirin as Pope. Patron of Cemetery workers.

Feast of St. Colman of Stockerau, martyr. Patron of hanged men, horses. Invoked for husbands by marriageable girls, against plague, gout.

Feast of St. Edwin of Northumbria, Martyr King. Patron of converts, hobos, homeless people, kings, and parents of large families.

Feast of St. Gummarus, abbot at Lierre. Patron of childless people, difficult marriages, hernia sufferers, separated spouses, woodcutters.

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

Feast of St. Dionysius the Areopagite, hieromartyr, First Bishop of Athens. Patron of Lawyers.

Feast of St. Ywi, Benedictine monk and hermit at Lindisfarne Abbey, England. He was ordained a deacon by St. Cuthbert. Died in 690.

Feast of St. Sergius, martyr, Roman army officer, refused to sacrifice to pagan gods. Patron of Syria, the army, soldiers. Died in 303.