Feast of St. Prosper of Aquitaine, writer, disciple of St. Augustine of Hippo, aggressive propagandist for the Augustinian doctrine of grace who chose the writings that became the decrees of the 529 Council of Orange.

Feast of St. Joseph Cafasso, Italian priest, Franciscan Tertiary, the “Priest of the Gallows” and one of the Social Saints.  Patron of Italian prisons, prison chaplains, prisoners and those condemned to death.

Feast of St. AIban of Mainz, priest, missionary, preacher, martyr, companion of St. Ursus, slain by the Vandals. Patron of hernia, epilepsy, gravel and kidney stones.

Feast of St. Florentina, Spanish abbess, sister of Saints Leander, Isidore and Fulgentius. Founded the convent of Santa Maria de Valle near Ecija, Spain.

Feast of St. Juliana Falconieri, foundress of the Religious Sisters of the Third Order of Servites (the Servite Tertiaries). Patron of bodily ills, sick people and sickness.

Feast of Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary and abbess of Schönau in Nassau, Strüth, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She experienced ecstatic visions starting in 1152. Died in 1164.

Feast of St. Botulph of Thorney, English missionary, monk and abbot, brother of St. Adulph. Patron saint of travelers and farming. Boston is a contraction of Botolphston (Botolph’s town).

Feast of St. Crescentia, martyr at Lucania, companion of St. Vitus. Patron of actors, comedians, Czechoslovakia, dancers, dogs, epilepsy, oversleeping, Prague, Czech Republic, rheumatic chorea (Saint Vitus Dance), snake bites, storms, Zeven, Lower Saxony and E Clampus Vitus.

Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Portuguese Franciscan priest & Doctor of the Church. Patron of lost articles, Lisbon, amputees, animals, elderly people, fishermen, harvests, horses, mail, mariners, pregnant women, travelers, Portugal, runts of litters & seekers of lost articles.

Feast of St. Barnabas, Prophet, Disciple, Martyr. He appears in the Acts of the Apostles and in several of St. Paul’s epistles. Martyred at Salamis, Cyprus, in 61 A.D. Patron of Cyprus, Antioch, against hailstorms, invoked as a peacemaker.