Saint Jerome [Girolamo] Emiliani, who converted to God after a violent and dissolute youth and imprisonment by his enemies. He then dedicated himself to the care of the neediest, especially orphans and the sick, thus beginning the Congregation of the Clerics Regular of Somasca. Later, while caring for the sick in that same town of Somasca (Italy), he contracted the plague and piously died. († 1537)

Saint Josephine Bakhita, virgin. Born in the region of Darfur (South Sudan), she was kidnapped while still a child and sold in various African slave markets, suffering harsh captivity. After release, she embraced the Christian faith and entered the Institute of the Daughters of Charity (Canossians), spending the rest of her life in Schio, near Vicenza (Italy), dedicated to Christ and at the service of others. († 1947)

In Alexandria (Egypt), the commemoration of Saint Cointha (or Quinta), martyr, whom unbelievers forced to worship idols during the persecution under Emperor Decius. She refused and was dragged through streets and squares, bound hand and foot, suffering a horrendous ordeal. († 249)

In Pavia (Italy), Saint Juventius (or Eventius), bishop, who labored tirelessly for the Gospel. († 397)

In Constantinople (now Istanbul, Türkiye), the commemoration of the Holy martyred monks of the Monastery of Saint Dios, cruelly murdered for their defense of the Catholic faith for delivering the letter of Pope Saint Felix III against the Patriarch Acacius. († c. 485)

* In Brittany (France), Saint Jacut, abbot, brother of Saints Winwaloe and Guethenoc, who built near the sea the monastery that later bore his name. († 6th cent.)

In Milan (Italy), memory of Saint Honoratus, bishop, who, faced with the imminent attack of the Lombards, saved a good part of the people from them, transferring them to Genoa. († c. 570)

* In Vesontio (now Besançon, France), Saint Nicetius, bishop. († c. 610)

In Verdun (France), Saint Paul, bishop, who, after being a monk, was raised to the episcopal see of this city where he promoted divine worship and the regular life of canons. († c. 647)

* In Albano (Italy), Blessed Pietro, called “Igneo” for having passed through fire unharmed. A monk of the Vallombrosan Benedictine Congregation and later bishop of this city, he worked tirelessly to restore ecclesiastical discipline. († 1089)

In Muret (France), Saint Étienne, abbot and founder of the Order of Grandmont, who entrusted the divine praise and contemplation to clerics while leaving the administration of temporal affairs to the charity of lay brothers. († 1124)

* In Savigliano (Italy), Blessed Giuseppina Gabriela Bonino, virgin, who founded a religious institute under the protection of the Holy Family of Nazareth to educate orphans and assist the sick poor. († 1906)

* In Collevalenza (Italy), Blessed Esperanza of Jesus (María Josefa) Alhama Valera, virgin. Filled with mystical graces, she sought to make the merciful love of God known and founded two religious institutes and a sanctuary dedicated to this end. († 1983)