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Saint Romuald, Abbot—Optional Memorial
c. 951–1027 | Invoked for reformation of the Church and monastic life
Canonized by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 | Liturgical Color: White

The Holy Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia suffered for Christ during the reign of Emperor Diocletian (284-305). Saint Vitus was the son of an illustrious Sicilian dignitary, the pagan Gelas. Gelas tried to turn his son from Christianity, but failed. Paternal love then turned to hatred, and he decided to kill Vitus.

Saint Germaine Cousin was born in 1579 in Pibrac, a small village not far from Toulouse, France. From her earliest years she was a frail, sickly child, and throughout her life was afflicted with scrofula, a tubercular condition affecting particularly the glands of the neck.

In the heart of the snowy Alps, a tale of extraordinary kindness and devotion was sown that still reverberates across time. This is the story of Bernard of Menthon, the patron saint of mountaineers and travellers, whose legend continues to inspire Catholic believers worldwide. Read more here: https://catholicsaints.day/bernard-of-menthon/

Elisha (e-LIE-sha) was a prophet in the northern kingdom of Israel in the 800s BC. His moment of calling was rather mystical: Elisha was plowing a field with twelve yoke of oxen when his predecessor, Elijah, came along and placed his mantle over Elisha’s shoulders―a symbol of a call to share in prophetic work.

Born into a noble family at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1195 (on August 15, it is believed), and baptized Fernando, the man we would come to know as St. Anthony was 15 years old when he entered the Canons Regular of St. Augustine. He was trained for the priesthood in Coimbra, in the monastery of the Holy Cross, and ordained at the age of 24.