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At Carthage, commemoration of the holy martyrs of Abitinae, in Tunisia: during the persecution of the emperor Diocletian, having gathered as usual against the imperial ban on celebrating the Sunday Eucharist, they were arrested by the magistrates of the colony and by the military garrison; led to Carthage and interrogated by the proconsul Anulinus, even amidst the tortures all professed themselves Christians, declaring that they could not neglect the celebration of the Lord’s sacrifice; for this they shed their most blessed blood in different places and times.

Commemoration of Saint Meletius, bishop of Antioch, who for his Nicene faith was repeatedly sent from exile and then, while he presided over the First Ecumenical Council of Constantinopole, passed over to the Lord; Saint Gregory of Nyssa and Saint John Chrysostom celebrated his virtues with great praise.

At Kornelimünster in Germany, transitus of Saint Benedikt, abbot of Aniane, who propagated the rule of Saint Benedict, entrusted the monks with the customs to be observed and worked hard for the renewal of the Roman liturgy.

At Constantinople, Saint Antony Kauleas, bishop, who at the time of Emperor Leo VI strongly worked to strengthen peace and unity in the Church.

In the monastery of Juilly in the territory of Troyes in France, Blessed Ombeline, prioress of the same monastery, who, happily converted from the pleasures of the world by her brother Saint Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux, with the consent of her spouse, gave herself to monastic life.

At the village of Northeim on the bank of the Ill in Alsace, Saint Ludan, who, of Scottish origin, passed to the Lord while travelling to visit the basilicas of the Apostles.

At London, England, blessed martyrs Thomas Hemerford, James Fenn, John Nutter, John Munden and George Haydock, priests, who, with Queen Elizabeth I having claimed the primacy in spiritual matters, for having maintained fidelity to the Church of Rome, were condemned to death and at Tyburn disembowelled while still alive.