Feast of St. Amand (Amandus), bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht, missionary of Flanders. Patron of wine makers, beer brewers, merchants, innkeepers, bartenders and Boy Scouts.

Feast of St. Blath of Kildare, lay sister and cook in St. Brigid’s convent in Kildare, Ireland. She was renowned for her simple, personal sanctity, holiness, and for her loyalty to Saint Brigid. Died in 523.

Feast of St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, founder of the Handmaids of Charity in Brescia, Italy, in 1839. Died in 1855.

Feast of St. Romaric, monk and founder, Frankish nobleman, Count Palatine in the court of Merovingian king, Theodebert II, Monk at Luxeuil. Romaric and his friend St. Amatus founded a monastery later given the name of Remiremont, Vosges, France.

Feast of St. Giles, Abbot. One of the fourteen Holy Helpers. Patron of breast cancer, breast-feeding, cancer patients, beggars, blacksmiths, the disabled, mental illness, sterility, epilepsy, fear of night, forests, hermits, horses, outcasts, the poor, lepers, sterility.

Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, Spanish knight, hermit, priest, theologian & founder, the Society of Jesus, 1st Superior General of the Jesuits in 1541. Wrote the Spiritual Exercises in 1548.  Patron of spiritual retreats, soldiers, Society of Jesus, the Diocese of Buenos Aires.

Feast of St. Justa and Rufina, Virgin Martyrs, potters. The two saints are highly honored in the medieval Mozarabic Liturgy. Patrons of Seville, Spain, guilds of alfareros (potters) and cacharreros (sellers of pottery), protectors of the Giralda and the Cathedral of Seville.

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, Died in 202.

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

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