Feast of St. Arnulf of Soissons, priest, abbot, Benedictine bishop and founder of the abbey of St. Peter in Oudenburg. France. Arnulf brewed beer and encouraged local peasants to drink beer, instead of water. Patron of hop-pickers and beer brewing.

Feast of St. Pantaenus the Philosopher, Greek theologian and missionary stoic philosopher, head of the  catechetical school in Alexandria, Egypt. St. Pantaenus influenced the development of Christian theology.

Feast of St. Maria Goretti, Italian virgin-martyr,one of the youngest canonized saints, canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1950. Patron of chastity, rape victims, girls, youth, teenage girls, poverty, purity and forgiveness.

Feast of Sts. Fragan & Gwen, the parents of Sts. Jacut, Guithem and Winwaloe and Feast of St. Antonio Maria Zaccharia, medical doctor, priest and cofounder, Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (the Barnabites) in 1530. Popularized the 40 Hours devotion. Patron The Barnabite order.

Feast of St. Ulric of Augsburg, bishop. Defended Augsburg against attacks by Magyars. First recorded canonization by a Pope in 993. Patron of diocese of Augsburg, Germany, happy death, weavers, against birth complications, against faintness, against fever, against mice & moles.

Feast of St. Phocas the Gardener, martyr. Phocas was a gardener living at Sinope, on the Black Sea, who aided persecuted Christians during the Diocletianic persecutions. Patron of gardeners, hospitality, agricultural workers, farmers, sailors and mariners.

Feast of St. Theobald of Provins, hermit and monk. Patron of farmers, winegrowers, shoemakers, belt makers, charcoal-burners and bachelors.

Feast of St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr. Greek cleric who guiding and expanding Christian communities in what is now the south of France. Bishop of Lugdunum (Lyon), his best-known work is On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis, ending the spread of Gnosticism.

Feast of St. Laszlo, chivalrous King of Hungary & Croatia, son of King Bela of Hungary, Father of Empress Irene.  Patron of architecture

Feast of St. Pelagius of Cordova, martyred by the Caliph of Córdoba. Patron of abandoned people, torture victims & Castro Urdiales, Spain. Remembered in the poem by Rhoswitha of Gandersheim (Latin: Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis) – The Passion of Pelagius written in Leonine hexameter.