June 22nd is the feast of Saint Thomas More: English lawyer, philosopher, theologian, poet, novelist, historian, biographer, father to seven, Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII, and martyr for papal supremacy—beheaded at London in 1535, aged 57. July 27th is the feast of Blessed Titus Brandsma: Frisian Carmelite friar, priest, philosopher, theologian, mystic, historian, polyglot, translator, journalist, opponent of Nazism, and martyr—murdered by lethal injection in 1942, during SS medical experimentation at Dachau. August 20th is the feast of Saint Bernard de Fontaine, “the Mellifluous Doctor”: Burgundian nobleman, Cistercian priest-monk, theologian, mystic, reformer, founder-Abbot of Clairvaux, co-founder of the Knights Templar, wonderworker, and Doctor of the Church, who died on this day in A.D. 1153. October 23rd is the feast of Saint Giovanni of Capestrano, “the Soldier Priest”: Abruzzan nobleman, Governor of Perugia, diplomat, Franciscan friar, reformer, papal legate, popular preacher, heresiographer, and inquisitor—who died on this day in 1456, while leading a Crusade against the Ottomans. December 14th is the feast of Saint John of the Cross, “the Mystical Doctor”: Castilian converso, Carmelite friar, priest, theologian, mystic, ecstatic, writer, poet, monastic reformer, founder of seven monasteries, and Doctor of the Church—who died on this day in 1591, aged 49. September 25th is the feast of Blessed Hermann “the Disabled” von Altshausen: Swabian-German nobleman, Benedictine monk of Reichenau Abbey, polyglot, historian, mathematician, astronomer, engineer, composer, poet, hymnographer, and musicologist—who died in A.D. 1054, aged 41. October 23rd is the feast of Saint Severinus Boethius: Roman nobleman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, mystic, poet, rhetorician, mathematician, musicologist, educational theorist, translator, statesman, diplomat, and martyr—executed by King Theodoric of Italy (an Arian heretic) in A.D. 524. 
