Feast Days July 11 and March 21

St. Benedict was born around 480, as the son to a Roman noble of Norcia and the twin to his sister, Scholastica. He is patron of Europe and Western Monasticism.

Feast Day February 10

St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God from her earliest youth. She is patron of Benedictine women's communities, school, reading, and against storms.

Feast Day November 22

St. Maurus was the first disciple of Benedict of Nursia (512–584). He is mentioned in St. Gregory the Great's biography of St. Benedict as the first oblate. He is patron of the crippled, he is invoked against rheumatism, epilepsy, gout, hoarseness, and colds.

Feast Day October 5

St. Placidus was an early follower of St. Benedict. He was the son of the patrician Tertullus, was brought as a child to Benedict at (Subiaco) as an oblate. He is patron of Messina (co-patron), Biancavilla, Castel di Lucio, Montecarotto, Poggio Imperiale, and against drowning.

Feast Day February 25

St. Walburg was born in Devonshire England, around 710. She was the daughter of a West Saxon chieftain and the sister of St. Willibald and Winebald. She was sent with St. Lioba to Germany to help St. Boniface in his missionary work. She is well known for the miraculous oil that is collected from her tomb. She is patron of those caught in storms, those fearful of water, and sailors.

Feast Day October 31

Saint Wolfgang c. 934 was bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria. He is regarded as one of the three great German saints of the 10th century. He is patron of apoplexy, carpenters, builders, paralysis, Regensburg, Germany, stomach diseases, and strokes.

Feast Day November 16

St. Gertrude the Great was a 13th century German Benedictine nun and mystic. In her early life she was entrusted to the care of Mechtilde, the younger sister of the Abbess Gertrude. She is patron of the West Indies.

Feast Day September 17

St. Hildegard is a 12th century saint born in Rupertsberg, near Bingen. Canonized on May 10, 2012, she is known for her mystical writings and musical compositions. She is patron of composers and musicians.

Feast Day August 30

Bl. Schuster was born in 1880 in Rome, Italy, and he entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul Outside the Walls when he was 11. He later became Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan. He is patronage of the Archdiocese of Milan.

Feast Day January 30

Columba Marmion, OSB, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion was a Benedictine Irish monk and the third Abbot of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium. Beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 3, 2000, Columba was one of the most popular and influential Catholic authors of the 20th century.

Feast Day January 21

St. Meinrad was born in the 8th century and was a monk of Einsiedeln in Switzerland. Martyred at his hermitage, he is known as the “martyr of hospitality.” He is patron of hospitality.

Feast Day March 9

St. Frances was an Italian who was a wife, mother, mystic, organizer of charitable services and a Benedictine oblate who founded a religious community of oblates. She was born in the 14th century and is patron of all Benedictine oblates.

Feast Day November 19

St. Mechtilde of Hackeborn, was a 13th century Saxon Christian saint and a Benedictine nun. She was famous for her musical talents, gifted with a beautiful voice. At the age of 50, Mechtilde went through a grave spiritual crisis, as well as physical suffering. She is patron against blindness.

Feast Day July 13

St. Henry II, also known as Henry the Exuberant, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1014 and a devout Benedictine oblate. He led and defended Europe's Holy Roman Empire at the beginning of the first millennium.

Feast Day December 13

St. Odilia of Alsace, was born in the 7th century and is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Her blindness was miraculously cured at her Baptism. She is patron of good eyesight and of the region of Alsace.

Feast Day March 3

St. Cunigunda of Luxembourg was Empress of the Holy Roman Empire by marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Saint Henry II in the 11th century. As a Benedictine oblate, she was known for her great charity and generosity. She is patron of Luxembourg, and the Archdiocese of Bamberg, Germany.

Feast Day April 21

St. Anselm was an Italian Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher and theologian who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. He is patron of philosophy and students.

Feast Day June 5

St. Boniface was an English Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. He organized significant foundations throughout Germany. He is patron of apologists.

Feast Day January 20

Bl. Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansy was an Igbo Nigerian ordained a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria on 19 December 1937. He worked in the parishes of Nnewi, Dunukofia, Akpu/Ajalli and Aguleri. He was later a Trappist Monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England. He is patron of Nigerian priests.

Feast Day April 29

Bl. Hanna Helena Chrzanowska was a laywoman from Kraków, Poland. She attended high school and helped care for soldiers wounded and injured in the Bolshevik revolution. In 1920, she began studies at the School of Nursing, and later studied in France on a scholarship and worked with members of the American Red Cross. She is patron of nurses.

Feast Day April 26

St. Rafael Arnáiz Barón was a Spanish Trappist conventual oblate. He studied architecture in Madrid, but decided to cease his studies in favor of the religious life. This was often interrupted due to his struggle with diabetes and his being called for active service. He is patron of artists and those afflicted with diabetes.