SAINTS FOR FEBRUARY 02

SAINTS FOR FEBRUARY 02 

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.  

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

ST. CATHERINE DE’ RICCI, DOMINICAN VIRGIN OF PRATO

ST. NICOLA SAGGIO OF LONGOBARDI, MINIMS ORDER MEMBER

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

"Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord."

St Theophane Venard- Priest and martyr. The son of a French schoolmaster, St Theophane was born in 1829 in Saint-Loup sur-Thouet. He joined the Society of Foreign Missionaries of Paris and after his ordination was sent to Tonkin (Vietnam). This was a time when Christians were being violently persecuted in the country. He was forced to live in hiding, moving from place to place sleeping in caves and sampans. In 1861 he was finally arrested and imprisoned in a bamboo cage before being beheaded for his faith.

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

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