Feast of St. Thethmar, Premonstratensian canon and missionary. He was also known as Theodemar, Friend of St. Vicelinus, worked to convert the Wends, in Germany. Died 1152.

Feast of St. William of Maleval, (William the Great), hermit and founder, Hermits of Saint William (Gulliemites), a branch of the Hermits of St. Augustine. Patron of Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Bacolor, Pampanga, Buting and Pasig, Philippines. Died in 1157. Canonized in 1202.

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. Nicholas Tavigli, Franciscan martyr of Jerusalem.  Native of Dalmatia worked in and around Bosnia, among the Paterine heretics. The first Croatian saint canonized in the modern process.

Feast of St. Julian the Hospitaler, Patron of Boatmen, carnival workers, childless people, circus workers, clowns, ferrymen, fiddlers, hospitallers, hunters, innkeepers, jugglers, knights, murderers, pilgrims, shepherds, travelers,  St. Julian’s, Malta and Macerata, Italy.

Feast of St. Dwynwen, daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog, credited with the saying: “Nothing wins hearts like cheerfulness”.  Welsh patron saint of lovers, making her the Welsh equivalent of St. Valentine. She is also the patron saint of sick animals.

Feast of St. Vincent Saragossa, deacon of the Church of Saragossa, protomartyr of Spain. Patron of São Vicente, Lisbon, Diocese of Algarve, Valencia, Vicenza, Italy, vinegar-makers, wine-makers and Order of Deacons of the Catholic Diocese of Bergamo (Italy).

Feast of St. Arnold Janssen, German-Dutch priest and missionary, Founder, Society of the Divine Word, the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, and Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters. Canonized in 5 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II.

Feast of St. Vergil of Salzburg, Irish churchman and astronomer, abbot of Aghaboe, bishop of Ossory and later, bishop of Salzburg. He was called “the Apostle of Carinthia” and “the geometer”. Canonized in 1233.

Feast of St. Hyacinth, Dominican missionary, “Apostle of Poland”. Patron of St. Hyacinth’s Basilica, Chicago & those in danger of drowning.