Happy Feast Day St. Raymond Nonnatus, pray for us He was delivered by C-section in 1204, thus the name Nonnatus (meaning not born). On a mission to Algeria, ransoming slaves, he ran out of money & offered himself for others & was imprisoned & tortured. bit.ly/3impCoO

Happy Feast Day St. Joshua pray for us!   He is one of the Old Testament patriarchs, was the successor to Moses & led the Israelites into Canaan. bit.ly/2UiPA4R

Happy Feast Day St. Penelope was one of the Forty Holy Virgin Martyrs. Little is known about them other than they were followers of St. Ammoun the Deacon & were martyred because they wouldn’t sacrifice to idols.  bit.ly/3g4p0nI

Happy Feast Day St. Teresa Margaret Redi, pray for us!  A Discalced Carmelite who practiced a remarkable prayer life, continuous thanksgiving, and heroic charity. bit.ly/3vUGjQ8

Happy Feast Day St. Giles pray for us!  Patron of people with disabilities. His sole companion was a deer who is said to have sustained him with her milk. When hunters pursued & shot at the deer, the arrow wounded St. Giles instead.   bit.ly/3hMm1Sd

Happy Feast Day St. Ingrid of Sweden, pray for us. She was an abbess and the first Dominican nun in Sweden.  bit.ly/3WtbnTu

Happy Feast Day St. Phoebe, pray for us! She was a Christian woman & faithful follower of St. Paul who praised her for her assistance to him & to many others to spread the faith.  bit.ly/3ks5W5G

Happy Feast Day St. Gregory the Great, pray for us!  Patron of teachers, students. Known for his contributions to the Liturgy of Mass. & is one of the 4 great Doctors of the Latin Church & the first monk to become Pope.  bit.ly/3rgKfHp

Happy Feast Day St. Rosalia, pray for us! To be closer to God she lived her life in the seclusion of a cave & practiced many penitential acts. You can still visit the sanctuary of Saint Rosalia in Palermo Sicily.  bit.ly/2TglIW9

Happy Feast Day Bl. Dina Belanger, pray for us! Her life plan was one of daily Mass, Holy Communion, prayer, esp the rosary & meditation & was a mystic who received revelations from Our Lord & suffered from the invisible stigmata. bit.ly/3AgqqG6

Happy Feast Day St. Rose of Viterbo, pray for us!  At age 10, after a vision of Christ’s suffering because of man’s sin, she was inspired to preach Christ’s passion & repentance for sin, in the streets of Viterbo. bit.ly/3zbt10N

Happy Feast Day St. Hermione is called a prophetess in Acts 21:8-9. She est. the first hospital/hospice that treated the whole person in body & soul, & provided housing for the poor & is known as the “Great Healer.” bit.ly/3BVER3x

Happy Feast Day St. Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us! At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, & an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. bit.ly/3JKHU0x

Happy Feast Day St. Magnus of Fussen was the “Apostle of Allgau” & a Benedictine monk & missionary in Bavaria, Germany.   Invoked against storms, insects, dragons & other disasters, such as the Black Death.  bit.ly/3xZ07AV

Happy Feast Day Bl. Maria Bolognesi pray for us! In 1942 was her first vision. Jesus gave her 3 rings, representing the Trinity & 5 rubies, representing His 5 wounds. Fm 1944 to 1954 the stigmata gradually appeared on her body. Died in 1980. bit.ly/3JUSAcX

Happy Feast Day St. Adrian was a pagan officer & bodyguard at the imperial court of Nicomedia. Adrian was so impressed by the strength & faith shown by persecuted Christians that he became a Christian. bit.ly/3zbaDFl

Happy Birth Day The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary “This is a day of universal joy because thru the Mother of God the entire human race was renewed & the sorrow of Eve, was transformed into joy.”  Saint John Damascene bit.ly/3r4sJdG

Happy Feast Day St. Ciaran of Clonmacnoise, pray for us.  He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and the first abbot of Clonmacnoise. bit.ly/3M0nYc3

Happy Feast Day Bl. Frederic Ozanam founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul after he was challenged by an atheist asking “What do you do besides talk to prove the faith you claim is in you?” bit.ly/3Bc97Vb

Happy Feast Day St. Peter Claver, pray for us. Patron of Missionary work, black missions, against slavery, race relations, African Americans, inter-racial justice. He preached in the city square, & gave missions to sailors & traders in the new world. .bit.ly/3erUq6N