Feast of St. Colman of Stockerau, martyr. Patron of hanged men, horses. Invoked for husbands by marriageable girls, against plague, gout.
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Feast of St. Edwin of Northumbria
Feast of St. Edwin of Northumbria, Martyr King. Died in battle against King Cadwallon and Penda of Mercia. Patron of converts; hobos; homeless people; kings; parents of large families.
Feast of St. Gummarus
Feast of St. Gummarus, abbot at Lierre. Patron of childless people, difficult marriages, hernia sufferers, separated spouses, woodcutters.
Feast of St. Gereon
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
Feast of St. Dionysius the Areopagite, hieromartyr, First Bishop of Athens. Patron of Lawyers.
Feast of St. Ywi
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
Feast of St. Sergius, martyr, Roman army officer, refused to sacrifice to pagan gods. Patron of Syria, the army, soldiers. Died in 303.
Feast of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
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
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
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Founder of the Franciscan Order, patron saint of Animals, ecologists and merchants.