Feast of St. James the Lesser, first Bishop of Jerusalem, author of the first Epistle, son of Alphaeus and Mary, a relative of the Blessed Virgin. Patron of hat makers.

Feast of St. Peregrine Laziosi, Servite priest and founder, Servite house in Forli, Italy. Patron of AIDS and cancer victims. The National Shrine of St. Peregrine is located at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica, 3121 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago.

Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Dominican tertiary, Scholastic philosopher, theologian, doctor of the Church. Patron diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA, Europe, illness, Italy, miscarriages, sexual temptation, sick people, sickness and nurses, against fire and bodily ills.

Feast of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian physician, working mother of four. Patron of Magenta, Italy, Mothers, Physicians, Wives, Families, Unborn children, World Meeting of Families 2015 (co-patron).  Died 1962. Canonized 2004.

Feast of St. Zita, Italian servant. Patron of domestic servants, homemakers, lost keys, people ridiculed for their piety, rape victims, single laywomen, waiters, waitresses and the Italian City of Lucca. Died 1272.

Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, author of the Second Gospel, cousin of St. Barnabas, founder, the Church of Alexandria. Patron of Barristers, Venice, Egypt and Mainar, Spain

Feast of St. Adalbert of Prague, missionary, Bishop & Martyr.  Missionary to the Hungarians, Poles and Prussians who was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians to Christianity. Patron of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Prussia and the Archdiocese of Esztergom.

Feast of St. Epipodius and Alexander, martyrs. Victims of the persecution in Lyon in AD 177 during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Epipodius is the patron saint of bachelors, victims of betrayal and of torture.

Feast of St. Beuno (anglicized as Bono) 7th-century Welsh abbot, confessor, missionary. Born at Berriew in Powys, descended from Vortigern, king of Britain, ordained at Bangor, Wales, missionary to the kingdom of Gwynedd. Patron of sick children, against diseased cattle.

Feast of St. Agnes of Montepulciano, Dominican prioress in Tuscany, Italy, elected abbess at the age of twenty. Known as a miracle worker. Died 1317.