BENEDICT REVELLI, a monk at Santa Maria dei Fonti in present-day Bari Italy. St. Benedict lived as a hermit on the island of Gallinaria in the Gulf of Genoa for a while before being consecrated Bishop of Albengac in 870. He reposed circa 900.

DAMIAN, (Date Unknown), the Bollandists list two St. Damians on this day. The first a soldier martyred in Africa, and the second a martyr in Rome. However, these particulars are speculative at best.

ETHELWOLD, a disciple of St. Cuthbert (20th March), St. Ethelwold went on to serve as Abbot of Melrose in Scotland. For the last twenty years of his life, he was Bishop of Lindisfarne. He was a contemporary of St. Bede the Venerable (25th May), who spoke of him with great praise. St. Ethelwold reposed 750 and was initially buried at Lindisfarne, though his relics were later translated to Durham.

EULALIA (AULAIRE, AULAZIE, OLALLA) of BARCELONA, a maiden in Barcelona, St. Eulalia was subjected torture and ultimately martyrdom during the Diocletianic Persecution circa 304.

GAUDENTIUS of VERONA, a Bishop of Verona, who flourished in the mid-fifth century. No further information on St. Gaudentius is extant.

JULIAN the HOSPITALLER, according to tradition, St. Julian accidentally killed his own parents, and in repentance he and his wife went on pilgrimage to Rome. There they built a hospice by the side of a river where they tended to the poor and the sick, and rowed travellers across the river. Present-day scholars are of the opinion that the story of St. Julian is pious fiction, which over time has come to be accepted as fact.

MODESTUS of CARTHAGE, martyred at Carthage, Africa Proconsularis circa 160. Nothing further is known about St. Modestus.

MODESTUS the DEACON, a deacon martyred during the Diocletianic Persecution circa 304. No further information is extant.

ALDETRUDIS (ADELTRUDIS), the daughter of SS. Vincent Madelgarus (20th September) and Waldetrudis (9th April). St. Aldetrudis joined her Aunt St. Aldegund of Maubeuge (30th January) at Maubeuge Abbey. There she was given the obedience of caring for her Aunt. following St. Aldegund’s repose in 684, St. Aldetrudis was made Abbess, and served as the second Abbess until her repose in 696.

DONATUS, JUSTUS, HERENA, and COMPANIONS, (Third Century), members of a group martyred in North Africa during the Decian Persecution.

FELIX III (II), forty-eighth Pope of Rome from 483 until his repose in 492. Most sources, including the Annuario Pontificio, list him as Felix III, though there is no Felix II listed. Felix II was an Antipope installed following the banishment of Pope St. Liberius (21st August) by the Arian Emperor Constantius II (r. 337–361).

St. Felix set the stage for the reconciling the Church and those who had embraced the heresy of Eutychianism. He also drafted conditions for the readmittance to the Church for those North Africans who had apostatised during the Vandal persecutions.

St. Felix was also Great-grandfather of Pope St. Gregory the Dialogist (3rd September)

VICTOR, a monk at St. Gall, who spent his later years as a hermit in the Vosges Mountains in Lorraine where he reposed in 995.

Icon of St. Walburg (Walburga)

WALBURG (WALBURGA), daughter of King St. Richard (7th February) and sister of SS. Willibald (7th July) and Winnebald (18th December). St. Walburg received monastic tonsure at Wimborne Abbey in Dorset in England where she was a disciple of St. Tetta (28th September). She later joined the mission of SS. Lioba (28th September) and Boniface (5th June) to evangelise the tribes of present-day Germany. St. Walburg later served as Abbess of the double monastery of Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm in Bavaria until her repose in 779.