- St. Lupus of Sens, bishop (†c. 623). Bishop of Sens, France, he was exiled from his diocese for having declared that his people must obey God before the rulers of this world.
- Blessed Brocard, religious (†c. 1231). Prior of the hermits of Mount Carmel in Palestine, to whom St. Albert, Patriarch of Jerusalem, gave the first Rule of the Carmelite Order.
- St. Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (†604 Rome).
Sts. John Pak Hu-jae and five companions, martyrs (†1839). Beheaded in Seoul, Korea, after enduring cruel torments, for being Christian.
- St. Rosalia, virgin (†twelfth century). At a very young age she abandoned the luxury of the court to go and live as a hermitess on Mount Pellegrino, near Palermo, Italy.
- St. Bertin, abbot (†c. 698). Together with St. Momelin he founded the monastery of Sithieu in Saint-Omer, France. He was abbot there for approximately to forty years.
- 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Blessed Bertrand of Garrigues, priest (†c. 1230). Disciple of St. Dominic, he was prior of the convent of Toulouse and later founded monasteries of the Order in Paris, Avignon and Montpellier.
- St. Stephen of Châtillon, bishop (†1208). Carthusian monk appointed Bishop of Die, France. He governed the diocese virtuously, without abandoning the austerity of monastic life.
- Nativity of Our Lady.
St. Peter of Chavanon, priest (†c. 1080). He founded a monastery of canons regular in Pébrac, France.
- St. Peter Claver, priest (†1654 Cartagena – Colombia).
Blessed George Douglas, priest and martyr (†1587). Scottish priest condemned to death in York during the reign of Elizabeth I.
- St. Nicholas of Tolentino, priest (†1305). Religious from the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustine, he preached the reform of customs in Tolentino, Italy.
- St. Paphnutius, bishop (†fourth century). Egyptian bishop tortured during the persecutions of Galerius Maximianus. He defended the divinity of Our Lord against Arianism at the Council of Nicaea.
- Most Holy Name of Mary.
Blessed Maria Luisa Prosperi, abbess (†1847). Benedictine religious from Trevi, Italy, to whom Our Lord granted extraordinary mystical gifts, but without sparing her long and sorrowful trials.
- 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
St. John Chrysostom, bishop and Doctor of the Church (†407 Comana – Turkey).
Blessed Mary of Jesus López de Rivas, virgin (†1640). Disciple of St. Teresa of Avila and Prioress of the Carmel of Toledo. She received communications of the sorrows of the Passion of Our Lord in her body and soul.
- Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
St. Notburga, virgin (†1313). Humble domestic maid in the village of Eben, Austria, she served Christ in the poor, giving to all an admirable example of sanctity.
- Our Lady of Sorrows.
Blessed Camillus Costanzo, priest and martyr (†1622). Italian Jesuit burned alive during the persecution in Japan. Even while engulfed in the fire, he did not cease to preach faith in Christ.
- St. Cornelius, Pope (†252 Civitavecchia), and St. Cyprian, bishop (†258 Carthage), martyrs.
St. Martin of Finojosa, bishop (†1213). Abbot of the Cistercian monastery of St. Mary of Huerta, Spain. He was ordained Bishop of Sigüenza, where he strove to reform the clergy.
- St. Robert Bellarmine, bishop and Doctor of the Church (†1621 Rome).
St. Lambert, bishop and martyr (†c.705). Bishop of Maastricht, Belgium, during a time of political unrest, he was exiled and lived for seven years as a simple monk.
- St. Richardis, empress (†c. 895). After being widowed, she entered the Andlau Abbey, in Germany, where she spent the rest of her life in prayer and works of charity.
- St. Januarius, bishop and martyr (†fourth century Pozzuoli – Italy).
St. Theodore, bishop (†690). He was almost seventy years of age when Pope St. Vitalian appointed him Bishop of Canterbury, England.
- 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Sts. Andrew Kim Taegon, priest, Paul Chong Hasang and companions, martyrs (†1839-1866 Korea).
Blessed Thomas Johnson, priest and martyr (†1537). Religious from the Charterhouse in London. He died from starvation and infirmity while incarcerated in chains due to his fidelity to the Church.
- St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist.
St. Jonah, prophet. Sent by God to preach in Nineveh. His expulsion from the belly of the whale, narrated in Sacred Scripture, was a prefigure of Christ’s Resurrection.
- Blessed Vincent Sicluna Hernández, priest and martyr (†1936). Zealous priest from the city of Navarrés, who refused to abandon the faithful during the persecutions of the Spanish Civil War.
- St. Pius of Pietrelcina, priest (†1968 San Giovanni Rotondo – Italy).
St. Linus, Pope and martyr (†first century). Second Pope of history. As St. Irenaeus relates, it was St. Peter and St. Paul who entrusted the pastoral care of the Church to him. He is mentioned by the Apostle in the second letter to Timothy (cf 2 Tm 4:21).
- Blessed Anton Martin Slomšek, bishop (†1862). Educator, catechist and writer, he diligently cared for ecclesiastical institutions and the Christian life of families, working for the unity of the Church in Slovenia.
- Blessed Marcos Criado, priest and martyr (†1569). Spanish Trinitarian religious, stoned to death by Moors in the mountains of Alpujarras, Spain.
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Sts. Cosmas and Damian – Carmelite Church, Corella (Spain) Sts. Cosmas and Damian, martyrs (†c. third century Cyrrhus, Syria).
Blessed Lucia of Caltagirone, virgin (†1400). Religious of the Franciscan Third Order Regular, outstanding for her fidelity to the Rule and devotion to the Five Wounds of Christ.
- 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
St. Vincent de Paul, priest (†1660 Paris).
Blessed John Baptist Laborier du Vivier, deacon and martyr (†1794). He was condemned to cruel captivity during the French Revolution in Rochefort, where he became gravely ill and died.
- St. Wenceslaus, martyr (†929/935 Stara Boleslav – Czech Republic).
St. Lawrence Ruiz and companions, martyrs (†1633-1637 Nagasaki – Japan).
Blessed Amalia Abad Casasempere, martyr (†1936). A housewife, known for her piety, she was imprisoned and executed by militia in Benillup, Spain.
- St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael, Archangels.
St. Maurice, abbot (†1191). He humbly renounced the office of superior in the Cistercian monastery of Langonnet, France, but was shortly after elected abbot of Carnoët.
- St. Jerome, priest and Doctor of the Church (†420 Bethlehem – Palestine).
St. Simon, monk (†1082). While Count of Crépy, France, he renounced his homeland, marriage and wealth to lead a hermetic life in the Jura Mountains.
