Feast of St. John Neumann, 1st canonized American Bishop. Founder, Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, 50 churches in Philadelphia.

Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native born American to be canonized. Foundress, 1st superior of the Sisters of Charity in the U.S.

Feast of St. Daniel of Padua, Martyr. Deacon of St. Prosdocimus. Invoked by women whose husbands are at war. Died in 168.

Feast of St. Basil the Great, Bishop, theologian, supporter of the Nicene Creed. Patron of hospital administrators. Died in 379.

Feast of St. Barbatian, Confessor and counselor to the Roman Empress Galla Placidia.

Feast of St. Sabinus, Bishop of Spoleto, Italy. Martyred with St. Exuperantius, Marcellus, Venustian during the persecutions of Diocletian.

Feast of St. Thomas Becket, Martyr, Archbishop of Canterbury. Subject of the 1964 movie “Becket”. Murdered in 1170.

Feast of St. Romulus and Conindrus, Missionaries and bishops, contemporaries of St. Patrick. The first evangelizers of the Isle of Man.

Feast of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, son of Zebedee, brother of St. James.  He wrote  the fourth Gospel, 3 Epistles, & the Book of Revelation.

Feast of Saint Vincentia Maria López y Vicuña, founder, Daughters of Mary Immaculate for Domestic Service in Madrid, Spain. Died in 1896.