ALSO TODAY:

At Caesarea in Cappadocia, in present-day Turkiye, Saints Germanus, Theophilus and Cyril, martyrs.

At Agrigento, Saint Libertino, bishop and martyr.

In the territory of Lauragais in Gallia Narbonensis, now in France, Saint Papoul, venerated as a martyr.

At Viterbo, Saints Valentino, priest, and Ilario, deacon, martyrs.

In Brittany in France, Saint Gwenaël, believed to be abbot of Landévennec.

At Rome, commemoration of Saint Silvia, mother of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, who, according to what the Pontiff himself reported in his writings, reached the pinnacle of the life of prayer and penance and was an excellent example for others.

In the monastery of Hornbach near Strasbourg in Burgundy, the deposition of Saint Pirminius, bishop and abbot of Reichenau, who evangelised the Alamanni and the Bavarians, founded many monasteries and wrote a book for his disciples on the catechesis of the uncultured.

In the monastery of Antídion in Bithynia, in present-day Turkiye, Saint Joannicius the Great, monk, who, having left the army after more than twenty years of service, gave himself up to a solitary life on various slopes of Olympus, usually ending his prayer with these words: “God, my hope; Christ, my refuge; Holy Spirit, my protector.”

At Alem in Flanders, in the present-day Netherlands, deposition of Saint Odrada, virgin.

At Urgell in Catalonia in Spain, Saint Ermengol, bishop, who was one of the illustrious prelates who worked to re-establish the Church in the lands freed from the yoke of the Moors and, having fallen to the ground while working with his own hands on the construction of a bridge, died breaking his head on the stones.

In Marsica in Abruzzo, Saint Berardo, bishop, who distinguished himself in the fight against simony, in the work of renewing the discipline of the clergy and in the activities of support and protection of the poor.

At Cudot in the territory of Sens in France, Blessed Alpais, virgin, who, cruelly beaten and abandoned by her parents as a child, then lived in confinement in a small cell until an advanced old age.

At the monastery of Fischingen in the territory of present-day Switzerland, Saint Ida, cloistered nun.

At Rimini in Romagna, Blessed Simone Balacchi, religious of the Order of Preachers, who led a life entirely dedicated to the service of the brothers, to penance and prayer.

At Milan, the anniversary of the death of Saint Charles Borromeo, bishop, whose memorial is celebrated tomorrow.

In the fortress of Xã Doài in Tonkin, now Vietnam, Saint Pierre-François Néron, priest of the Society for Foreign Missions of Paris and martyr, who lived for three months shut up in a narrow cage under Emperor Tu Duc and, atrociously beaten, remained for three weeks without any food, finally completing his martyrdom with beheading.