30 October

. . . .is kept in Prussia as the feast of St. Dorothea of Montau. She was a 14th century wife, mother, widow, and finally recluse. She is considered the patroness of Prussia. The Catholic Encyclopaedia article says she was never canonized. Engelbert says that the Teutonic Knights introduced her cause for canonization at Rome and seems to imply that she was, although he does not say so explicity.

This is also the day kept in honor of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, a 16th century husband and father. Upon his wife’s death he became a Jesuit lay brother. For the final 40 years of his life he worked as porter at Palma, Majorca.

St. Marcellus was a soldier of the Trajan Legion, martyred at Tangier in 298.