Feast of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus, Franciscan tertiary, mystic and stigmatic. Died in 1791, canonized in 1867.

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

Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Founder of the Franciscan Order, patron saint of Animals, ecologists and merchants.

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, Benedictine bishop and martyr. Abbott of St. Maxentius, Patron of millers, invoked against blindness, eye disease.

Feast of St. Romanus the Melodist, hymnographer of 1000 compositions, some master works of religious literature. Patron of church singers.

Feast of St. Jerome, the most learned of the Fathers of the Western Church. Patron of Librarians. Died in 420.

Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, leader of the forces of heaven in triumph over hell. Patron of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police.

Feast of St. Wenceslaus, martyr, Duke of Bohemia, Patron of Bohemia, Prague, Czech Republic. “Good King Wenceslaus” of the Christmas carol.

Feast of Sts. Cosmas & Damian, martyrs, twins, patron of surgeons, physicians, dentists, barbers, pharmacists, veterinarians, orphanages.