Saint Erasmus of Formia (†c. 303), also known as Saint Elmo, was a Christian saint and martyr who is considered to be one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, saintly figures of Christian tradition who were venerated especially as intercessors. Pope St Gregory the Great recorded in the 6th century that the relics of Erasmus were preserved in the cathedral of Formia. When the old Formiae was razed by the Saracens in 842, the cult of Erasmus was moved to Gaeta. He is venerated as the patron saint of sailors, Gaeta, Formia, colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labor, cattle pest, and Fort St. Elmo, (Malta) and his feast day is commemorated on June 2.
Saint Ursula is a Romano-British Christian saint. Because of the lack of definite information about the anonymous group of holy virgins who on some uncertain date were killed at Cologne, their commemoration was omitted from the General Roman Calendar when it was revised in 1969, but they have been kept in the Roman Martyrology. She is a patron saint of Cologne, England, archers, orphans, students, Binangonan, Rizal.
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