Feast of St. Columbanus of Bobbio, Irish missionary, founder of many monasteries, taught Celtic monastic rule. Patron of motorcyclists

Feast of Saint Felicitas of Rome, martyr. Patron of parents of a dead child; martyrs; sterility; widows; Isca sullo Ionio, Calabria, Italy.

Feast of St. Amelberga, Benedictine abbess of Susteren, Netherlands. Died in 900.

Feast of St. Edmund the Martyr, King. His shrine became the English town of Bury St. Edmund’s. Patron of torture victims, wolves.

Feast of St. Mechtildis of Helfta, Benedictine nun and mystic. Aided St. Gertrude the Great with the Book of Special Graces. Died 1298.

Feast of St. Odo, Benedictine Abbot, reformed the Abbey of Cluny, France, which became the model of monasticism for over a century. Patron for rain.

Feast of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, bishop. Patron of desperate causes, floods, impossible causes, lost causes and against earthquakes.

Feast of St. Hugh of Lincoln, Carthusian monk of the Grande Chartreuse, Bishop of Lincoln. Patron of sick people, shoemakers, and swans.

Feast of St. Albert the Great, teacher, expert in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geography, and mathematics. Patron of scientists.