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

Feast of St. Mother Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala (Mother Lupita), co-founder, the Congregation of the Handmaids of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Poor.  Canonized on May 12 2013 by Pope Francis. Patron of Nurses and the Handmaids of Santa Margherita Maria and the Poor.

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. Thomas More, English lawyer, author, statesman, councilor to Henry VIII and Lord High Chancellor of England. He was convicted of treason and beheaded. Patron of Adopted children, civil servants, difficult marriages, large families, lawyers, politicians & statesmen.

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 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. Lutgardis of Aywières  (Lutgarde), Cistercian nun, prioress and mystic.  Born in Tongeren, Belgium and had gifts of healing and prophecy.  Patron of blindness, childbirth, Flanders, the disabled and the handicapped. Died 124.

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.