Feast Day: April 16
Born: 25 March 1748 at Amettes, Boulogne, France
Died: 17 April 1783 at Rome
Canonized: 8 December 1883 by Pope Leo XIII
Major Shrine: Tomb at Santa Maria ai Monti
Patron of: Unmarried men, rejects, mental illness, mentally ill people, insanity, beggars, hobos, the homeless
Wednesday, April 17
Liturgical Color: White
Pope Pius X gave an address to new cardinals
on this day in 1907, in which he condemned the
heresy of Modernism. This heresy tries to
change truths taught by the Church to fit the
thinking of the day.