Feast Day: October 31
Born: 924 in Swabia
Died: 31 October 994 at Pupping, Linz (modern Austria)
Canonized: 1052 by Pope Leo IX
Patron of: apoplexy; carpenters and wood carvers; paralysis; stomach diseases; strokes
Thursday, October 31
Liturgical Color: Green
Today is the vigil of All Saints' Day. We
use this day to prayerfully prepare for
tomorrow, a day in which all the saints
in heaven, known and unknown, are
honored. The vigil of All Saints' Day was
first observed in the 9th century.