Patron Saint of Europe. Saint Brigid, religious, born in Sweden, who married the noble Ulfo, which had eight sons, which she educated piously, achieving at the same time with their advice and their example that her husband take a life of piety. Once he was Dead, she made a pilgrimage to many shrines and left various writings, that speak of the need for reform both head and members of the Church. Put the foundations of the order of the Holy Savior, in Rome went from this world to heaven.
View moreIn Marseille, city of Provence, in Gaul, saint Juan Casiano, priest, who founded a monastery for men and another for women, and, as a result of its long experience in the monastic life, wrote two works for the monks: Cenobiticas institutions and parent conferences (c. 435).
In Bizia (today Wizard), in Thrace, saint Severo, martyr in time of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, who, according to tradition, converted to the centurion saint Memnón and was martyred after it (c. 304).
At Cimiez, also in Provence, saint Valeriano, Bishop, who, out of the monastery of Lérins to be elevated to the episcopate, placed written examples of the lives of several saints for edification of monks and the people in general (c. 460).