Oct. 24 Saturday of the Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret, bishop, Opt. Mem.

Today the Church celebrates the optional memorial of St. Anthony Claret, bishop, the founder of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Anthony Mary Claret died in the Cistercian monastery at Fontfroide in France on this date in 1870. He was canonized in 1950 and listed in the Roman Calendar in 1960.