12 DECEMBER

Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated on this day. She is patroness of the Americas and of Mexico in particular. She has lately become the special patroness of the pro-life movement since her image as shown on St. Juan Diego's tilma shows her as pregnant with Our Lord. I can't find the reference at the moment, but I believe that today's feast was recently raised in status in the Pauline rite to that of a Solemnity in the western hemisphere.

In Ireland this is the feast of St. Finnian, the "Master of the Irish Saints". He was tutor to the great St. Columba and found of the monastery of Clonard in Meath.