IX Post Pent. XVII Tempus Per Annum
MONDAY
* Universal Feast (Greek and Latin) of St. Pantaleon the Great Martyr
* Former apostate turned martyr
* Invoked against lung disease
* Patron of doctors and medical professionals
TUESDAY
* Ss. Nazarius & Celsus, Pope St. Victor (early witness to Papal primacy)
WEDNESDAY
* St. Martha (after sister St. Mary Magdalene last week)
* Ordinariate celebrates Martha, Mary and Lazarus feast day today
* Saint Paul Chen Changpin: Chinese peasant, convert to Catholicism, seminarian, and martyr—beheaded on this day in 1861, aged 23.
* Blessed Martyrs of Calanda: 8 Dominican friars murdered by the Reds on this day in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War.
THURSDAY
* St. Peter Chrysologus, Doctor of the Church
FRIDAY
* St. Ignatius of Loyola
SATURDAY First Day of the Dormition Fast
* St. Peter in Chains (Another Pre-55 Miracle feast)
* Maccabean Martyrs (moved to St. Peter in Chains on this day)
* St. Alphonsus (date of “birthday”)
* The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek: 11 Polish nuns murdered by the Gestapo on this day in 1943, after offering to die in place of more than 120 others.
SUNDAY
* St. Alphonsus (old feast)
* St. Peter Julian Eymard (invoked by Bishop Schneider’s Eucharistic Crusade)
