Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Albert the Great, bishop and doctor of the Church
- Abibus, Gurias, and Samonas, martyrs
- Desiderius or Didier, bishop
- Malo, bishop
- Fintan of Rheinau
- Leopold of Austria
St. Albert the Great (1206-1280 A.D.) was from Bavaria, Germany. He went to Italy to study at the university of Padua. It was here that he entered the Order of Preachers. In 1228 A.D., he became professor of Cologne. He taught at many universities in Europe: Freiburg, Regensburg, Strassburg, and Paris, but it was at Cologne that St. Thomas Aquinas became his student. He wrote numerous books on Scripture, theology, philosophy and the natural sciences. In 1278 A.D., he went to Paris to defend the teachings of his former student, St. Thomas Aquinas, who died four years earlier. He then went back to Cologne where he died. St. Albert is the patron saint of students. Learn more.
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