SAINTS FEBRUARY 02-2022

  SAINTS FEBRUARY 02-2022

St. Feock, Patron of a church in Cornwall, England, possibly Irish by birth, who may be St. Fiace.  

St. Lawrence of Canterbury, 619 A.D. Archbishop of Canterbury, England, sent there by Pope St. Gregory I the Great. A Benedictine, Lawrence accompanied St. Augustine to Canterbury in 597 and succeeded him as archbishop in 604. When the Britons lapsed into pagan customs, Lawrence planned to return to France, but in a dream he was rebuked by St. Peter for abandoning his flock. He remained in his see and converted the local ruler King Edbald to the faith. He died in Canterbury on February 2. Lawrence is commemorated in the Irish Stowe Missal and is reported to have been scourged by St. Peter in his dream, carrying the physical scars on his back.

Martyrs of Ebsdorf Roman Catholic Martyrs. A group of four bishops, eleven noblemen, and companions led by St. Bruno. They were slain by Norsemen while serving in the army of King Louis III of France. These martyrs died at Luneberg Heath, at Ebsdorf, Saxony, in modem Germany, repelling the Norse assault. Feastday Feb.2

St. Joan de Lestonnac, Roman Catholic Nun and founderess of the order The Company of Mary Our Lady. though she lived in the 17th century her body remains incorrupt.Feastday Feb.2

ST. CATHERINE DE’ RICCI, DOMINICAN VIRGIN OF PRATO. Alexandra de’ Ricci was born of a noble family near Florence in 1522. At the age of twelve she entered the Dominican convent of St Vincent at Prato and took the religious name Catherine. Inspired by the Dominican reformer Girolamo Savonarola she worked constantly to promote the regular life.Feb. 2

ST. NICOLA SAGGIO OF LONGOBARDI, MINIMS ORDER MEMBER. He was a pious child, and would spead whole days in prayer in a local Minim church. At 20, against his family’s wishes (legend says that he was struck blind when his mother objected, and only recovered his sight when she agreed to let him follow his vocation), he became an Oblate friar of the Order of the Minims, taking the name Nicola. Feb. 2