Feast of St. Pedro de San Jose Betancur, Franciscan tertiary, Spanish missionary & founder, Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem. “St. Francis of Assisi of the Americas”. 1st saint native to the Canary Islands,1st saint of Guatemala & Central America. Patron Canary Islands & Guatemala.

Feast of St. Pedro de San Jose Betancur, Franciscan tertiary, Spanish missionary & founder, Order of Our Lady of Bethlehem. “St. Francis of Assisi of the Americas”. 1st saint native to the Canary Islands,1st saint of Guatemala & Central America. Patron Canary Islands & Guatemala.

Feast of St. Stephen Harding, English Cistercian monk & abbot, one of the founders of the Cistercian Order. In 1119, he wrote the Carta Caritatis (Charter of Charity), an important document for the Cistercian Order, establishing its unifying principles. Died 1134. Canonized 1623.

Feast of St. Drogo, orphan, anchorite and penitential pilgrim. Patron of coffee house owners, broken bones, cattle, deafness, hernias, insanity, unattractive people, bodily ills, gallstones, illness, midwives, mute people, mutes, orphans, ruptures, sheep, shepherds and sickness.

Feast of St. Lidwina of Schiedam, Dutch mystic. Patron of sickness, suffering, chronically ill, ice skaters, town of Schiedam, Holland. Died 1433.  Canonized 1890.

Feast of St. Hermengild, son of king Leovigild of Visigothic Spain. He married Ingund, a Chalcedonian Christian, in 579. Called a” Catholic martyr rebelling against the tyranny of an Arian father” in Pope Gregory I’s Dialogues. Patron of Seville, Spain.

Feast of St. Zeno of Verona, Bishop and Martyr. A native of Mauretania (modern Morocco and Algeria), Zeno was a monk elected successor to Bishop Gricinus of Verona. Patron of fishermen, the city of Verona, newborn babies as well as children learning to speak and walk.

Feast of St. Walter of Pontoise, professor of philosophy and rhetoric before becoming a Benedictine monk at Rebais, later abbot at Pontoise. Patron of prisoners, prisoners of war, vintners, invoked against job-related stress.

Feast of St. John Baptist de la Salle, French priest, founder, the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Patron of teachers.

Feast of St. Vincent Ferrer, Valencian Dominican missionary and logician, born Valencia, Spain. Patron of Archdiocese of Valencia, Builders, Prisoners, Construction workers, Plumbers, Fishermen and Spanish orphanages. Died 1419.