SAINTS FOR FEBRUARY 12

SAINTS FOR FEBRUARY 12

STS. SATURNINUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS OF ABITINA IN AFRICA

St. Febronia, Roman Catholic Martyr, known as a Holy Virgin Martyr and is one of the 140 Colonnade saints which adorn St. Peter's Square. Feastday February 12

Bl. Thomas Hemerford, 1584 A.D. English martyr. A native of Dorsetshire, he was educated at Oxford and then studied for the priesthood at English College, Rome. He was ordained in Rome in 1583, and returned to England, where he was swiftly arrested. Condemned for being a priest, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn with four companions. He was beatified in 1929.  

St. James Feun, Blessed, 1584 A.D. Martyr in England. Born in Somerset, he studied at Oxford and became a fellow until he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy and was removed. James married and became a school-master in Somerset. After the passing of his wife, he went to Reims where he studied for the priesthood and received ordination in 1580. Returning to England, he worked in Somerset until arrested. He was then moved to London and named a conspirator of a bogus assassination plot. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on February 12. Pope Pius XI canonized him in 1929.  

Bl. John Nutter & John Munden, 1584 A.D. English martyrs. John Nutter was from Lancaster and was ordained at Reims in 1581. Munden, a native of Dorset, was ordained at Reims in 1582. They were martyred at Tyburn with three priest companions. Both were beatified in 1929.  

St.  Ethelwald. Bishop of Lindisfame, England, a disciple of St. Cuthbert. Ethelwald served as prior and then abbot of Old Melrose in Scotland. St. Bede praised Etheiwald, who succeeded St. Eadfrith at Lindisfame in 721. 

St. Ludan, 1202 A.D. Scottish pilgrim, also listed as Ludain or Luden. He was probably the son of a Scottish prince who made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. On his return, Ludan stopped at Scherkirchen, near Strasbourg, France, where he died, while the local church bells saluted him miraculously.