17 Sept 2026 – Thursday of Week 24 Optional Memorial: St Robert Bellarmine, 1542-1621, Jesuit, cardinal bishop and doctor of the Church. Patron of catechists. St Hildegard, 1098-1179, founder of Bingen Monastery c.1150. She knew the natural sciences, was a musician, composer, writer and mystic. Also a refomer, canonised and declared a doctor of the Church in…