Feast of St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, founder of the Handmaids of Charity in Brescia, Italy, in 1839. Died in 1855.

Feast of St. Venantius Fortunatus, Poet and Bishop. Wrote Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis, Vexilla Regis and 11 books of poetry.

Feast of St. Lucy, or Saint Lucia, martyr, patron saint of the blind and those with eye-trouble. Her feast day is a festival of light.

Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, appeared to St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin in 1531. Patron of the Americas.

Feast of Pope Saint Damasus I, Pope and Confessor. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin. Died in 384.

Feast of St. Eulalia of Merida, Virgin and Martyr. Patron of Merida, Spain Oviedo, Spain; runaways; torture victims; widows. Died in 304.

Feast of St. Peter Fourier, Founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame. A native of Mirecourt, Lorraine, France, he died in 1640.

Feast of St. Macarius of Egypt, monk and hermit. Called The Lamp of the Desert. Macarius died in the year 391.

Feast of St. Maria Giuseppe Rossello, Foundress of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy. Died on December 7, 1888, canonized in 1949.

Feast of St. Nicholas Tavigli, Franciscan martyr of Jerusalem. Native of Dalmatia worked around Bosnia, among the Paterine heretics.