Patroness of immigrants. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and, encouraged by Pope Leo XIII, crossed the ocean to dedicate her life to Italian immigrants in the United States.
View moreAlso the commemoration of St. Isquirión, martyr in Egypt, who, by refusing to sacrifice, between mockery and slander was crossed by the womb with a sharp stick, and thus handed over to death (c. 250).
In Utrecht, Gelderland, in the Lotharingia, St. Hungero, Bishop.
Commemoration of Saints Chaeremon, Bishop of Nilopolis, and other martyrs in Egypt, some of whom, during the persecution under the Emperor Decio, were on the run and, erring by solitary places, part succumbed to predators, others consumed by hunger, cold and disease, and the rest, finally, exterminated by the barbarians and the robbers, and thus, all dying variously, were crowned with the glory of martyrdom.