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Commemoration of Saint Jonah, prophet, son of Amittai, under whose name a book of the Old Testament is entitled; his famous exit from the belly of a large fish is interpreted in the Gospel as a prefiguration of the Lord’s Resurrection.

In Greece, commemoration of Saint Quadratus, disciple of the Apostles, who, as is handed down, during the persecution of Emperor Hadrian, gathered with faith and charity the Church dispersed out of fear, and dedicated a book to the emperor in defence of the Christian religion from outstanding apostolic doctrine.

At Rome on the ancient Via Salaria, Saint Panfilo, martyr.

Also at Rome at the twentieth mile of Via Cassia at Baccanas, Saint Alessandro, martyr.

At Gaza in Palestine, the holy martyrs Eusebius, Nestabus and Zeno, brothers: at the time of Emperor Julian the Apostate, attacked by the crowd of pagans, they were torn to pieces and killed. Saint Nestor also suffered martyrdom with them, who shortly afterward brought his fight to an end due to the wounds he received.

At Apt in Provence in France, Saint Castor, bishop, who, eager to explain monastic life to the brothers of a newly founded monastery, asked Saint John Cassian to compose the famous “Lectures” on the ascetics of Egypt.

In the monastery of Llandcarfan in South Wales, Saint Cadoc, abbot, under whose name many monasteries were also founded in Cornwall and Brittany.

In the monastery of Ettenheim in Baden, Germany, Saint Landelin, monk, originally from Ireland.

At Tronchiennes in Flanders, in present-day Belgium, Saint Gerulf, martyr, adolescent.

At Troyes on the Seine in France, Saint Maure, virgin, assiduous in works of piety and charity.

At Pesaro, Blessed Marco da Modena Scalabrini, priest of the Order of Preachers, who succeeded in leading many astray on the path of justice.

In the fortress of Quang-Tri in An Nam, now Vietnam, the holy martyrs François Jaccard, priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, and Tôma Trần Văn Thiện, who, under Emperor Minh Mang, suffered for Christ imprisonment and beaten and finally died, strangled.

Near Saenamteo in Korea, passion of the holy martyrs Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert, bishop, Pierre-Philibert Maubant and Jacques-Honoré Chastan, priests of the Society for Foreign Missions of Paris, who to save the lives of other Christians gave themselves up to the soldiers and were pierced with the sword.

At the village of Benisoda in the territory of Valencia in Spain, the blessed martyrs Vicente Galbis Gironés, father of family, and Manuel Torró García, who, conforming themselves to the passion of Christ, imitated in the triumph of martyrdom the one they had venerated.