Saints February

Holy Spirit, thank you for helping me, Please make my heart open to the word of God, make my heart open to goodness, 

make my heart open to the beauty of God every day”.****** 

Thank you, Lord Jesus Christ ...

Glory be to The Father, and to The Son and to the Holy  Spirit. As it was in the beginning , is now and ever shall be world without end. amen

Blessed be God.

Blessed be his holy Name. 

Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.

Blessed be the name of Jesus.

Blessed be his most Sacred Heart.

Blessed be his most Precious Blood.

Blessed be Jesus in the most holy Sacrament of the altar.

Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.

Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.

Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.

Blessed be her glorious Assumption.

Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.

Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse. 

Blessed be God in his angels and in his saints.

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ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS AND OTHERS

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February 1 

St. Brigid of Ireland. Brigid was probably born at Faughart near Dundalk, Louth, Ireland. Her parents were baptized by St. Patrick, with whom she developed a close friendship. According to legend, her father was Dubhthach, an Irish chieftain of Lienster, and her mother, Brocca, was a slave at his court. Even as a young girl she evinced an interest for a religious life and took the veil in her youth from St. Macaille at Croghan and probably was professed by St. Mel of Armagh, who is believed to have conferred abbatial authority on her. She settled with seven of her virgins at the foot of Croghan Hill for a time and about the year 468, followed Mel to Meath. About the year 470 she founded a double monastery at Cill-Dara (Kildare) and was Abbess of the convent, the first in Ireland. The foundation developed into a center of learning and spirituality, and around it grew up the Cathedral city of Kildare. She founded a school of art at Kildare and its illuminated manuscripts became famous, notably the Book of Kildare, which was praised as one of the finest of all illuminated Irish manuscripts before its disappearance three centuries ago. Brigid was one of the most remarkable women of her times, and despite the numerous legendary, extravagant, and even fantastic miracles attributed to her, there is no doubt that her extraordinary spirituality, boundless charity, and compassion for those in distress were real. She died at Kildare on February 1. The Mary of the Gael, she is buried at Downpatrick with St. Columba and St. Patrick, with whom she is the patron of Ireland. Her name is sometimes Bridget and Bride.  

St. Seiriol, 6th century.  Welsh monk and hermit, He is honored on Puffin Island (island of Ynys-Seiriol), off the coast of Anglesey, Wales. Other details of his life are scarce.  

St. Cinnia, 5th century. A princess of Ulster, Ireland. She was converted to Christianity by St. Patrick. When she entered a convent, St. Patrick gave her the veil.  

St. Crewanna, 5th century. A confessor who accompanied St. Breaca from Ireland to Cornwall, England. Crowan near St. Erth is believed to have been named in his honor.  

St. Darulagdach, 524 A.D. Abbess of Kildare, Ireland, the successor of St. Brigid. She is also called Dardulacha.  

St. Jarlath, 480 A.D. Also called Hierlath, Irish bishop and disciple of St. Patrick. He became bishop of Armagh and aided monastic expansion and the missionary program undertaken in that era. 

St. Kinnin, 5th century. Irish maiden baptized by St. Patrick. She is venerated in County Louth, Ireland.  

Bl. Anne Hmard, Bl. Anne-Francoise de Villeneuve, Bl. Catherine Cottenceau, Bl. Francoise Bonneau, Bl. Francoise Michau, Bl. Francoise Pagis Roulleau, Bl. Gabrielle Androuin, Bl. Jeanne Bourigault

Bl. Jeanne Fouchard Chalonneau, Bl. Jeanne Gruget Doly, Bl. Jeanne-Marie Sailland d'Epinatz, 

Bl. Louise Rallier de la Tertiniere Dean de Luigne, Bl. Louise-Aimee Dean de Luigne, 

Bl. Madeleine Blond, Bl. Madeleine Cady, Bl. Madeleine Perrotin Rousseau, Bl. Madeleine Sailland d'Epinatz, 

Bl. Madeleine Salle, Bl. Marguerite Riviere Huau, Bl. Marguerite Robin, Bl. Marie Cassin, Bl. Marie Grillard, 

Bl. Marie Lenee Lepage Varance, Bl. Marie Leroy Brevet, Bl. Marie Pichery Delahaye, Bl. Marie Roualt Bouju, 

Bl. Marie-Genevieve Poulain de la Forestrie, Bl. Marie-Jeanne Chauvigne Rorteau, Bl. Marthe Poulain de la Forestrie, 

Bl. Marie-Jeanne Chauvigne Rorteau, Bl. Marthe Poulain de la Forestrie, Bl. Perrine Androuin, Bl. Perrine Besson, 

Bl. Perrine Bourigault, Bl. Perrine Grille, Bl. Perrine Laurent, Bl. Perrine Ledoyen, Bl. Perrine Phelyppeaux Sailland, 

Bl. Perrine-Jeanne Sailland d'Epinatz, Bl. Perrine-Renee Potier Turpault, Bl. Renee Grillard, Bl. Renee Marie Feillatreau, 

Bl. Renee Martin, Bl. Renee Regault Papin, Bl. Renee Seichet Dacy, Bl. Renee Valin, Bl. Rose Quenion, 

Bl. Simone Chauvigne Charbonneau, Bl. Suzanne Androuin, Bl. Victoire Bauduceau Reveillere, Feb. 1

Pierre Tessier was a Roman Catholic layman and a martyr during the French Revolution, Feastday February 1

Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, who educated her children into chrtistianity and after the death of her husband, entered the Third Order of St. Francis and assisted the needy to the point that being rich became poor. Feb 1

Saint Henry Morse, SJ

Born : 1595

Died : February 1, 1645

Beatified : December 15, 1929

Canonized : October 25, 1997

Henry Morse was born of Protestant parents in Suffolk, England. He began his studies at Corpus Christie College, Cambridge but left at the age of seventeen to study law at Barnard’s Inn, London. During this time he became increasingly dissatisfied with the established religion and more convinced of the truth of the Catholic faith. In 1614, he went to the English College at Douai, Flanders and was received into the Catholic Church. His older brother, William had become a Catholic the year before and was at that time a seminarian at Douai.

Shortly after his conversion, Henry returned to England to prepare to enter the seminary that autumn. Upon arrival, he was asked by the English port authorities to take the oath of allegiance acknowledging the king’s supremacy in religious matters. The recent convert resolutely refused and was arrested and imprisoned for four years and was released in 1618 when the king decided to get rid of hundreds of religious dissenters by banishing them to France. Henry made his way to Douai again but was sent to Rome as the English College there had too many students. He was ordained in 1623.

Fr Morse returned to England but before leaving Rome he visited the Jesuit General and requested to be admitted into the Society of Jesus. The General agreed and told him that he would be admitted after his return to England and wrote to the Jesuit superior in England to accept Fr Morse upon his arrival. Fr Morse probably entered the Society in 1624 and spent his novitiate period doing pastoral work in the Newcastle area in northern England. After 18 months of traveling from station to station, he was due to conclude his novitiate by making the 30-day retreat in Flanders, but the ship he was sailing in was unexpectedly halted at the mouth of the Tyne River by soldiers searching for a priest disguised as a foreign merchant. They discovered Fr Morse instead. Thus Fr Morse was arrested and imprisoned a second time and sent to Newcastle prison. Shortly, another Jesuit was also imprisoned. He was Fr John Robinson, a classmate from Rome, who was on his way to take Fr Morse’s place. Both ended up at York castle where Fr Robinson directed Fr Morse in the retreat which completed his novitiate.

Fr Morse was banned from England after serving 3 years in prison and returned to Flanders where he served as chaplain to the English soldiers serving in the Spanish army then in Flanders. Later he served as assistant to the novice master until 1633 when his health broke. He returned to England to replace Fr Andrew White, who had accompanied the first Catholic settlers to southern Maryland.

San Enrique Morse

Fr Morse was assigned to work at the parish of St Giles in a poor district outside London. While he was there, the city and suburbs were ravaged by a plague. Fr Morse threw himself into caring for the plague-stricken; hearing confessions, securing medicine for the sick, took viaticum to the dying and prepared the dead for burial. His reward for his selfless service was to be arrested a third time and imprisoned at Newgate prison. He ably defended himself at the trial, but was convicted nevertheless although sentence was never passed. He was released two months later because of Queen Henrietta Marie’s intervention in recognition of his service to plague victims. After his release, Fr Morse returned to the continent and again became chaplain to the soldiers as he could no longer move about safely in England.

In 1643, he was again assigned to England and was sent to Cumberland where he was less well-known. He worked for 18 months until he accidentally walked into a group of soldiers late one night who suspected he was a priest. He was arrested and held overnight in the home of a local official. Fortunately, the official’s wife was a Catholic and helped him escape. He enjoyed freedom for 6 weeks but one day he and his guide lost their way in the countryside and innocently knocked on the door of a house to ask for directions. The man who answered was one of the soldiers who had recently apprehended him and remembered him well and there would be no fifth escape.

Fr Morse was moved from local jails to London’s Newgate in January 1645 and tried at Old Bailey; his very presence in England proved him guilty of violating the law by coming back after he had been banished. He was found guilty of high treason and condemned to death. During the 4 days between sentencing and execution, many visitors came to his cell seeking his prayers or asking for a keepsake. Among them were ambassadors from the Catholic countries who wished to show their solidarity with the Catholics in England.

At 4 am on February 1, Fr Morse celebrated his last Mass. At 9 am Fr Morse was dragged to Tyburn, the place of execution outside London. He mounted the cart beneath the gallows. When they placed the noose round his neck, he addressed the people: “I am come hither to die for my religion……I have a secret which highly concerns His Majesty and Parliament to know. The kingdom of England will never be truly blessed until it returns to the Catholic faith and its subjects are all united in one belief under the Bishop of Rome.” He ended by saying: “I pray that my death may be some kind of atonement for the sins of this kingdom.” Then he said his prayers an asked that the cap be pulled over his eyes; beat his breast 3 times, giving the signal to a priest in the crowd to impart absolution. He then said: “Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.” After he was dead his body was torn open, his heart removed, his entrails burned and body quartered. In accordance with the custom that followed executions, his head was exposed on London Bridge and his quartered body was mounted on the city’s four gates.

Fr Morse was 50 years old at the time of his martyrdom and had been a Jesuit for 20 years.

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ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 2 

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.  

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

John Nelson (1535-1578) became a Jesuit in prison just before he was martyred. A man of unshakeable convictions, he died two years before the English mission began, but he provided the same fearless service to Catholics that Jesuits later lived and died for. The son of Sir Nicholas Nelson, he was born in Yorkshire about 1535. He was firm in his conviction that Catholics should be bold in professing their faith and did not accept the practice of attending Protestant services to avoid penalties. Finally he left England when he was almost 40 and studied at the English College in Douai. He was ordained a priest at Bynche in June 1576 and set out with four other newly ordained priests the following November to return to England.

Little is known about Father Nelson's ministry except that it lasted only one year before he was arrested on the evening of Dec. 1, 1577 when priest-catchers burst into his residence as he was reading his breviary. They arrested him on suspicion of being a Catholic; but when he was brought before the queen's high commissioners and asked who the head of the Church was, he boldly answered that it was the pope, thus sealing his fate. His trial took place February 1 and featured the comments he made before the commissioners; since he refused to take the oath acknowledging the queen's supremacy in religious matters, he was found guilty of high treason and condemned to be executed as a traitor. Nelson had admired the Jesuits but their mission to England did not begin until two years after his death. He wrote to the French Jesuits asking to be admitted, and they were pleased to accept a priest about to be martyred. He was kept in a foul dungeon for two days and then dragged to Tyburn to be executed. As he gave his final words to onlookers, he was hanged but then cut down while he was still alive and disembowelled. He was beheaded and quartered with his body parts exhibited on London Bridge and the city gates as a warning.

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ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 3 

St. Anatolius, 9th century. Scottish bishop and hermit. Anatolius left his see and Scotland to make a pilgrimage to Rome. He became a hermit at Salins, France. Another tradition states that Anatolius was a bishop in Galicia, Spain.  

St. Werburg, 785 A.D. Widow and abbess. A woman from Mercia, England, she became a nun after her husband died. Werburg entered a convent, possibly Bardney, where she became abbess.  

St. Werburga, 699 A.D. Benedictine nun and patroness of Chester, England. The daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia and St. Ermenilda, she was born in Staffordshire. Werburga resolutely refused to marry, insisting instead that she become a nun at Ely. After studying under St. Etheldreda, she departed the convent of Ely in 675 and assisted her uncle Ethelred, who was now king, in reforming the convents of the realm. She also founded communities at Hanbury, Trentham, and in Wedon, in Northamptonshire. Her remains were transferred from Trentham to Chester, where she became venerated as the patron saint of the city. She was reputed to have the ability to read the minds of others and was revered in her lifetime for miracles.  

St. Caellainn, 6th century. Irish saint also called Caoilfionn. She is listed in the Martymlogy of Donegal, and a church in Roscommon is named in her honor.  

Bl. John Nelson, 1578 A.D. Jesuit martyr of England, a native of Skelton, near York. He was ordained at Douai at the age of forty. Sent to London in 1576, he was arrested in London and martyred at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. John became a Jesuit just before his death.  

St. Margaret of England. Cistercian nun. She was born in Hungary, to an English mother who was related to St. Thomas of Canterbury, England. She went with her mother on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and lived a life of austerity and penance in Bethlehem. Her mother died there, and Margaret made pilgrimages to Montserrat, in Spain, and to Puy, France. There she entered the Cistercian convent at Suave-Benite. When she died, her tomb became a pilgrimage shrine.  

ST. ANSGAR, BISHOP OF HAMBURG AND BREMEN, APOSTLE OF SCANDINAVIA. The “apostle of the north” (Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a saint—and he did. He became a Benedictine at Corbie, France, where he had been educated. Three years later, when the king of Denmark became a convert, Ansgar went to that country for three years of missionary work, without noticeable success. Feb. 3

ST. BLAISE, BISHOP OF SEBASTE AND MARTYR. A physician in Armenia who was made a bishop, he is attributed with many miracles. One of these involved the miraculous removal of a fish bone from a young boy’s throat – which is why he is considered protector from throat diseases. After refusing to deny the Faith, he was beheaded in 316.  Feb. 3

February 3rd : Blessed John Nelson, SJ https://www.jesuit.org.sg/feb-3rd-john-nelson-sj/ 

Blessed John Nelson, SJ

Born: Circa 1535

Died: February 3, 1578

Beatified: December 9, 1886

John Nelson was born in Yorkshire round about 1535 and was the son of Sir Nicholas Nelson. He was known for his intense practice of the faith and never feared to practice Catholicism openly although Queen Elizabeth’s government was unfavourable to Catholics and spies abounded. John was convinced that it was only by the shedding of blood that England could again be restored to the faith, and driven by this firm conviction, he left for Flanders and matriculated at the English college at Douai at the age of 40. He was delighted when his younger brothers, Martin and Thomas, followed him to Douai in 1574 and 1575 respectively. John was ordained a priest in 1576 at Bynche and 5 months later, he and 4 other newly ordained priests, left the continent for their native land England.

Fr Nelson spent only 1 year in his priestly ministry and was forced to celebrate Mass secretly in Catholic households. On December 1, 1577, as he was reading his breviary in the evening at his London residence, priest-hunters surprised him and arrested him on suspicion of him being a Catholic priest and he was brought to London’s Newgate Prison. A week after he was arrested, he was taken before the Queen’s High Commissioners but he adamantly refused to recognize the Queen’s authority over the Church. When asked who then was the head of the Church, he unequivocally answered that it was the Pope. He also boldly declared, when asked of the Queen’s position, that she was a schismatic, a heretic and that the religion practiced in England was of her own making. At his trial, he repeated the same remarks and because he refused to take the oath acknowledging the queen’s supremacy in religious matters, he was found guilty of high treason and condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor.

Fr Nelson spent the last two days of his life in a dark, damp, vermin-infested dungeon where he spent his time fasting, praying and preparing for death. On February 3, he was dragged to Tyburn for execution. Just before he was hanged, Fr Nelson asked the Catholics present to pray with him and aloud he recited the Creed, the Our Father and the Hail Mary, all in Latin. He then encouraged the bystanders to remain steadfast in their faith, asked forgiveness of all whom he might have offended and beseeched God to forgive his enemies and executioners. Just as he was finishing these words he was hanged. He was cut down while still alive to make him further suffer disembowelment. His severed head was then displayed on London’s Bridge and portions of his body exhibited at each of the city’s four gates.

Fr Nelson had been an admirer of the Jesuits since he had met them in France and as there was no Jesuit mission in England until 1580, 2 years after his death, he had written to the French Jesuits during his imprisonment for permission to be admitted to the Society. The Jesuits were happy to accept him, especially one about to be martyred for Christ. Fr John Nelson was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on December 9 1886 together other Jesuit martyrs of England and Wales

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 4 

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St. Aldate, 600 A.D. Bishop and leader of Gloucester, England. Aldate's life is not detailed historically. He is is reported to have served as bishop of the region and to have roused the countryside to resist pagan invasion forces.  

Bl. John Speed, 1594 A.D. An English martyr. he was a layman sometimes called Spence. He was executed at Durham for befriending Catholic priests. John was beatified in 1929 as one of the Durham Martyrs.  

St. John Stone, 1538 A.D. John Stone (d. 1538) + Augustinian martyr, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was a friar at Canterbury who denied the Supremacy Act of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and was arrested and executed by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury.  

St. Liephard, 640 A.D. English martyred bishop, companion of King Caedwalla on a pilgrimage to Rome. Liephard was slain near Cambrai, France, and is revered as a martyr.  

St. Modan, 6th century. Abbot and son of an Irish chieftain. He labored in Scotland, preaching at Stirling and Falkirk, until elected against his will as abbot of a monastery. Eventually, he resigned and became a hermit, dying near Dumbarton.  

ST. JOSEPH OF LEONESSA, CAPUCHIN FRIAR

Born in 1556, he went to Constantinople where he helped Christians who had been captured by the Turks. He tried to preach the Gospel to the Sultan, for which he was arrested, tortured and driven out. He travelled around Italy on foot, preaching the Good News to the poor, the sick, and prisoners.  Feb.4

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 5 

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St. Vodoaldus, 725 A.D. Hermit, sometimes called Voel and Vodalus. A native of Ireland or Scotland, he journeyed to France and worked for a time as a missionary. He later lived as a hermit beside St. Mary's Convent at Soissons. Vodoaldus was a great miracle worker.  

B.. ELISABETH CANORI MORA, MOTHER, was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member from the Secular Trinitarians. Mora married an abrasive husband who remained unfaithful and abusive to her but at the time of her death secured his repentance - he ended up as a priest. Feb. 5

ST. ADELAIDE, ABBESS, Abbess and miracle worker, the daughter of Megingoz, the count of Guelders, also called Alice. Adelaide entered the Ursuline Convent in Cologne. Her parents then founded the Convent of Villich near Bonan, and she became abbess there, introducing the Rule of St. Benedict to the community. Feb. 5

Helen Ann Hajek Birthday St_Helens_Bishopsgate-The church of St Helen's dates from the 12th century and a priory of Benedictine nuns was founded there in 1210 England

St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr Saint Agatha‘s is one of the most beautiful testimonies of faith in the early certuries. The Church celebrates her memory on February 5, the day she died a martyr in Catania. The impetuous young Sicilian, subjected to horrible torture, proved a brave fidelity to Christ.  

St. Agatha, Virgin and Mother - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/02/05/st--agata--virgin-and-martyr.html 

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 6 

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St. Mel. He is said to have been the son of Conis and Darerca, the sister of St. Patrick, whom he accompanied to Ireland and helped to evangelize in that country. According to the Life of St. Brigid, he is said to have had no fixed See, which might fit in his being a missionary. St. Patrick himself built the church at Ardagh and to this he appointed his nephew, Mel. Acting upon the apostolic precept, he supported himself by working with his hands, and what he gained beyond bare necessities, he gave to the poor. For sometime, he lived with his aunt Lupait, but slanderous tongues spread serious accusations against them, and St. Patrick himself came to investigate their conduct. Mel was plowing when he arrived, but he cleared himself of the charge by miraculously picking up a live fish from the ground as if from a net. Lupait established her innocence by carrying glowing coals without burning herself or her clothing. St. Patrick was satisfied, but he told his nephew in future, to do his fishing in the water and his plowing on the land, and he moreover, enjoined them to avoid scandal by separating, living and praying far apart.  

 

St. Tanco, 808 A.D. Irish Benedictine abbot and bishop, also called Tancho and Tatta. Tanco became a monk and served as abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Amalbarich, Saxony, Germany. Successful as a missionary in Cleves and Flanders, Belgium, he was named bishop of Werden, Germany. He was stabbed to death by a mob of pagans for destroying their pagan statues, and is venerated as a martyr.  

St. Mun, 5th century. Bishop and hermit on an island in Lough Ree, Ireland. Mun was a nephew of St. Patrick.  

The twenty-five Martyrs of Japan, crucified on Februay 5. including St. Francis Nagasaki, St. Anthony Dainan, St. Thomas Danki, St. Thomas Kozaki, St. Francis of St. Michael, St. James Kisai, St. John Soan de Goto, St. Martin de Aguirre, St. Martin Loynaz of the Ascension, St. Matthias of Meako, St. Michael Kozaki, St. Peter Shukeshiko,

St. Paul Miki, Roman Catholic Japanese Martyr. He was crucified on Februay 5 with twenty-five other Catholics during the persecution of Christians under the Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ruler of Japan in the name of the emperor. Feastday February 6

St. Dorothy, Roman Catholic Martyr. she refused to sacrifice to the gods during Emperor Diocletian's persecution of the Christians, was tortured by the governor and ordered executed. On the way to the place of execution, she met a young lawyer, Theophilus, who mockingly asked her to send him fruits from "the garden" she had joyously announced she would soon be in. When she knelt for her execution, she prayed, and an angel with a basket of three roses and three apples, which she sent to Theophilus, telling him she would meet him in the garden. Theophilus was converted to Christianity and later was martyred. Her feast day is February 6th.

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ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 7 

St. Richard. Richard was the father of Saints Willibald, Winnebald, and Walburga. He was on a pilgrimage to Rome from his native Wessex, England, with his two sons when he was stricken and died at Lucca, Italy. Miracles were reported at his tomb and he became greatly venerated by the citizens of Lucca, who embellished accounts of his life by calling him "king of the English". His feast day is February 7th.  

St. Augulus, 303 A.D. Martyr listed by St. Jerome as a bishop. He is also described as martyr of London, England, by some scholars. Still others identify him as St. Aule of Normandy, France.  

Bl. William Richardson, 1603 A.D. Martyr of England. Born in Sheffield, he studied for the priesthood at Valladolid and Seville, Spain, receiving ordination in 1594. William was sent back to England, where he used the name Anderson. He was soon arrested and executed at Tyburn by being hanged, drawn, and quartered. He was the last martyr in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). St. Tressan, 550 A.D. Irish missionary, also called Tresian. He left his native country to assist the spread of the faith in Gaul (modern France), receiving ordination from the hands of St. Remigius.  

St. Meldon, 6th century. Irish hermit, and possibly a bishop in France. He died at Peronne, where he is titular saint of several parishes. He is also listed as Medon.  

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 8 

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St. Cuthman, 900 A.D. A saint of southern England, a holy Sheppard near Steyning in Sussex. He cared for his aging mother and, aided by his neighbors, built a church in Steyning. Cuthman, who was known for his miracles, was honored in the church that he built. His relics were later transferred to FeCamp, in France.  

St. Elfleda, 714 A.D. Benedictine abbess also known as Edifleda, Elfeda, Elgiva, or Ethelfieda. The sister of King Oswy of Northumbria, England, she was placed as an infant in the convent of Hartlepool. The abbess, St. Hilda, took Elfieda to Whitby, and she succeeded Hilda there as abbess. Elfieda was powerful in Church affairs and mediated a dispute between Sts. Wilfrid and Theodore. She also aided St. Cuthbert. Elfieda died at Whitby.  

 St. Jacut and Guethenoc, 5th century. Disciples of St. Budoc, sons of Sts. Fagan and Gwen, and brothers of St. Gwenaloe. They were forced to leave Britain by invading Saxons, probably going with Budoc to Brittany.  

St. Kigwe. A Welsh saint, sometimes called Ciwg, Cuick, Kewe, or Kigwse. Nothing is known about her, and she is often identified with St. Ciwa. Kigwe is venerated in Gwent, Wales.  

St. Llibio, 6th century. The Patron Saint of Llanlibio on Anglesey Island, Wales.  

St. Oncho, 600 A.D. Irish saint, also listed as Onchuo. A poet and pilgrim, he devoted himself to preserving the Celtic traditions, researching the relics of Irish saints. He died of Clonmore monastery where he was enshrined.  

ST. JOSEPHINE BAKHITA, VIRGIN, St. Josephine Bakhita Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle was a tribal chief. Due to her family lineage, she grew up happy and relatively prosperous, saying that as a child, she did not know suffering. Feb.8

“I would kiss their hands…”

All Schio was in mourning when Sr. Josephine Bakhita died of pneumonia on February 8, 1947. Her life had truly become “fortunate,” as she said herself: “If I were to meet those men who abducted me, or even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for it that hadn’t happened, I 

would not be a Christian and a religious today.”

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St. Alto, 760 A.D. Hermit and missionary, recorded as an Irishmen or possibly an Anglo-Saxon. He lived near Augsburg, Germany, arriving in the region circa 743. Living in a simple hut in wild lands, Alto soon achieved a reputation for holiness and austerity. Word of his good works reached King Pepin, who gave him a parcel of land near Altmunster, in modern Friesling Diocese in Bavaria. Alto  Alto soon achieved a reputation for holiness and austerity. Word of his good works reached King Pepin, who gave him a parcel of land near Altmunster, in modern Friesling Diocese in Bavaria. Alto cleared the land and founded an abbey. St. Boniface came in 750 to dedicate the abbey church. The monastery was ravaged by the Huns but was restored in 1000 and made a Benedictine house. The Brigittines took it over in the fifteenth century

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St. Teilo, 6th century. Welsh bishop, also called Eliud, Issell, Teillo, Teilou, Dub, and Theliau. A native of Penally, Pembrokshire, Wales, he studied under Sts. Dyfrig and Dubricius. He accompanied the famed St. David of Wales to Jerusalem and was a friend and assistant to St. Samson in Brittany, France, for seven years. Returning to Wales in 554, he was quite successful as a preacher and founded and served as abbot-bishop of Llandaff monastery in Dyfed, Wales. He was buried in Llandaff Cathedral.  

St. Cronan the Wise, 8th century. A bishop of Ireland, possibly identified with St. Roman He systematized canon law in Ireland.  

St. Cuaran, 700 A.D. An Irish bishop also called Curvinus or Cronan. He became a hermit on Iona, Scotland, after retiring as bishop, hoping to conceal his identity. St. Columba, however, recognized Cuaran.  

St. Eingan, 6th century. Welsh prince and hermit, also called Anianus, Einon, and Eneon. He came from Cumberland, in Wales, the son of a chieftain. Eingan had a hermitage built at Llanengan, near Bangor.  

Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerick, Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim. Her convent was suppressed by Napoleon, who controlled the region. Soon afterward, she fell ill, and spent her remaining years bedridden. In this state of suffering, she received numerous visions, private revelations, and the mystical gift of the stigmata. Feb. 9

St. Apollonia, Virgin and Martyr of Alexandria, Egypt Highly regarded for her courage and integrity, she was captured in 249, when she was already an elderly woman, during the fierce persecutions of the 3rd century in Egypt. Refusing to deny the faith, she was tortured by having her teeth torn out, and was finally burnt alive.  

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 10 

St. Trumwin, 704 A.D. Early Scottish bishop. An Englishman by birth, he was named bishop of the Picts in southern Caledonia (Scotland), in 681. He based his mission in the monastery of Abercorn on the Firth of Forth. When his political patron King Egfrith of Northumbria was slain by the Picts at the Battle of 

Nechtansmere, Trumwin was forced to flee with all of his monks to the safety of the south Taking up residence at Whitby, England, he spent his remaining days there as a monk.  

St.  Erluph, 830 A.D. Martyred bishop of Werden, Germany. From Scotland originally, he served as a missionary in Germany. Pagans martyred Erluph to protest his success as a missionary.  

St. Scholastica, Virgin, sister of St. Benedetto Sister of St. Benedict of Nursia, Scholastica was the first Benedictine nun, always humbly devoted to her brother and faithful to his Rule. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/02/10/st--scolastica--virgin--sister-di-s--benedetto.html

Sts. Zoticus, Hyacinth and Amantius, Martyrs on the via Labicana

Bl. Louise Poirier Barre, Roman Catholic laywoman and a martyr during the French Revolution. Feastday February 10

Bl. Louise Bessay de la Voute, Roman Catholic laywoman and a martyr during the French Revolution. Feastday February 10

Bl. Pierre Fremond Roman Catholic layman and a martyr during the French Revolution. Feastday February 10

St. Paul and Ninety Companions, Roman Catholic Dominican Priest and Martyrs. wild pagan Cumans tribesman refused to hear his words and slaughtered Paul and his fellow missionaries. Feastday February 10

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS  February 11

B.VIRGIN MARY OF LOURDES

ST. SOTERA,VIRGIN AND MARTYR ON THE VIA APPIA

Young and of noble family, but humble spirit, she dedicated herself to works of charity. She was arrested in 304 during the persecutions unleashed by the Emperor Diocletian. She faced her torturers with courage, and still refusing to deny the faith, she was beheaded.  Feb. 11

ST GREGORY II, POPE, Gregory II Born c. 669, Pope/St. Gregory II was the scion of a noble Roman family. Under Sergius I , Gregory was the librarian and the keeper of the purse; he accompanied Pope Constantine when the pope traveled to Constantinople to protest the anti-western canons of the Second Trullan (or Quintisext) Council (692). Feb.11

St. Paschal, Roman Catholic Pope, he succeeded Pope Stephen IV (V)from 25 January 817 to his death in 824. He built and redecorated many churches in Rome and transferred many relics from the catacombs to churches in the cityFeastday Feb 11

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS  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.  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. 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. 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.  

Sts. Saturninus and Companions, martyrs of Abitina in Africa

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS  February 13

St. Dyfnog. Welsh confessor of the Caradog family. He was venerated in Clwyd, Wales.  

St. Ermengild, 700 A.D. Queen and Benedictine nun, also called Ermenilda. The daughter of a king of Kent, England, and St. Sexburga, Ermengild married the king of Mercia. She helped spread the faith in Mercia until her husband's death in 675. She then became a nun at Milton at Minster, Sheppey. When her mother, who had served as abbess, retired, Ermengild succeeded to that Office. She then followed St. Sexburga to Ely, becoming abbess there also.  

St. Huno, 690 A.D. Monk priest of Ely, England, who aided St. Aetheldreda. Attending her in her last hours, Huna became a hermit in the Fens.  

St. Modomnoc, 550 A.D. Irish bishop and a disciple of St. David of Wales. Sometimes called Domnoc or Dominic, he was a member of the royal Irish family of O’Neil and ended his years as a hermit at Tibraghny in Kilkenny When Modomnoc returned to Ireland after studying with St. David, swarms of bees left Wales to follow him, thus supposedly being introduced to Ireland.  

B. Jordan of Saxony, Dominican

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 14 

ST. ZENON, MARTYR ON THE APPIA Feb 14

St. Valentine, Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr. He assisted the martyrs in the persecution under Claudius II. He was apprehended, and sent by the emperor to the prefect of Rome, who, on finding all his promises to make him renounce his faith ineffectual, commanded him to be beaten with clubs, and afterwards, to be beheaded, which was executed on February 14,  Feastday February 14

Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Roman Catholic missionaries among the Slavic peoples of the Great Moravia and Pannonia.BISHOP PATRONS OF EUROPE, Feb. 14

St. Conran, A traditional figure, believed to have served as bishop of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. No details of his life have survived.

Bl. Vicente Vilar David, Roman Catholic Layman Martyr. Valencia, Spain during the persecution of religion welcomed the priests and religious in his house and preferred to die rather than renounce his faith. Feb. 14  

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Sts. Faustinus and Jovita, Martyrs

St. Onesimus, Disciple of St. Paul

St. Berach, 6th century. Irish abbot and nephew of St. Freoch. He was raised by his uncle and became a disciple of St. Kevin. Berach, who is sometimes called Barachias or Berachius, founded an abbey at Clusin-Coirpte, in Connaught, Ireland. He is the patron saint of Kilbarry, County Dublin. 

 

St. Dochow, 473 A.D. Monastic founder from Wales, possibly a bishop. Dochow formed a monastery in Cornwall, England. The Ulster Annual describes him as a bishop.  

St. Farannan, 590 A.D. Abbot and Irish disciple of St. Columba on Iona, Scotland. He returned to Ireland to become a hermit at AllFarannan, now Allernan, Sligo.  

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 16 

St. Juliana, Virgin and Martyr of Nicomedia, in Campania

St. Elias & Companions, Egyptian martyr with Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Samuel. They went to the mines in Cilicia, to comfort the Christians held there. They were arrested at the gate of the mine and martyred. The historian Eusebius was in Caesarea, in Israel, and gave a vivid account of their martyrdom by torture and beheading. Two others, St. Pamphilus and St. Seleucus, were also caught up in the martyrdom, sharing Elias fate. Porphy, the servant of Pamphilus, demanded that the bodies of the martyrs be buried and was burned to death as a Christian. Feastday Feb,16

St. Gilbert of Sempringham. Gilbert was born at Sempringham, England, son of Jocelin, a wealthy Norman knight. He was sent to France to study and returned to England to receive the benefices of Sempringham and Tirington from his father. He became a clerk in the household of Bishop Robert Bloet of Lincoln and was ordained by Robert's successor, Alexander. He returned to Sempringham as Lord on the death of his father in 1131. In the same year he began acting as adviser for a group of seven young women living in enclosure with lay sisters and brothers and decided the community should be incorporated into an established religious order. After several new foundations were established, Gilbert went to Citeaux in 1148 to ask the Cistercians to take over the Community. When the Cistercians declined to take on the governing of a group of women, Gilbert, with the approval of Pope Eugene III, continued the Community with the addition of Canons Regular for its spiritual directors and Gilbert as Master General. The Community became known as the Gilbertine Order, the only English religious order originating in the medieval period; it eventually had twenty-six monasteries which continued in existence until King Henry VIII suppressed monasteries in England. Gilbert imposed a strict rule on his Order and became noted for his own austerities and concern for the poor. He was imprisoned in 1165 on a false charge of aiding Thomas of Canterbury during the latter's exile but was exonerated of the charge. He was faced with a revolt of some of his lay brothers when he was ninety, but was sustained by Pope Alexander III. Gilbert resigned his office late in life because of blindness and died at Sempringham. He was canonized in 1202. 

 

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STS. SEVEN FONDERS OF THE ORDER OF THE SERVANTS OF MARY,  founded in 1233 by seven Florentine nobles and business men who went to Monte Senario, outside of Florence, Italy to live lives of prayer, community and service dedicated to Mary, Mother of Sorrows. The Order is now worldwide and composed of many different autonomous congregations (smaller groupings ...Feb. 17

St. Fintan, 603 A.D. Abbot and disciple of St. Columba. Fintan was a hermit in Clonenagh, Leix, Ireland. When disciples gathered around his hermitage he became their abbot. A wonder worker, Fintan was known for clairvoyance, prophecies, and miracles. He also performed very austere penances.  

St. Fortchern, 6th century. Bishop of Trim, Ireland. He was converted by St. Loman. Fortchern became a hermit in Meath, retiring from his see after a few years.  

St. Loman, 450 A.D. Bishop of Trim, in Meath, Ireland, the son of Tigris, the sister of St. Patrick. He accompanied St. Patrick to Ireland and converted a local chieftain. Another tradition dates Loman to the seventh century, denying his relationship to St. Patrick.  

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS  February 18 

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Bl. William Harrington, 1594 A.D. Martyr of England. Born at Mt. St. John, Yorkshire, he studied for the priesthood after meeting St. Edmund Campion and was ordained at Reims, France, in 1592. William returned to England to work in the English mission. Arrested in London in 1593 for being a priest, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn.  

St. Colman of Lindisfarne, 676 A.D. An Irish bishop of Lindisfarne, England, a disciple of St. Columba. He was born in Connaught, Ireland. At the Synod of Whitby Colman defended the Celtic ecclesiastical practices against St. Eilfrid and St. Agilbert. When King Oswy introduced the Roman rites, Colman refused to accept the decision and led a group of Irish and English monks to the Isle of Innishboffin, near Connaught. In time he moved the English monks to Mayo. Colman was praised by Blessed Alcuin and St. Bede.  

Bl. John Pibush, 1601 A.D. English martyr, born in Thirsk, Yorkshire. He went to Reims and was ordained in 1587. Returning to England in 1589, John was arrested at Gloucestershire in 1593 and kept in prison in London. He escaped but was recaptured and then tried and condemned. He was executed at Southwark. His beatification took place in 1929.  

B.JOHN OF FIESOLE (BEATO ANGELICO), DOMINICAN

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 19 

Bl. Lucy, Roman Catholic laywoman Martyr of China. She was a Catholic schoolteacher in China, where she was beheaded. Feb. 19

St. Belina, Roman Catholic virgin martyr. A peasant girl from Troyes, France, she was threatened with rape by the feudal lord of the district. She refused his advances and died in defense of her virginity. Feastday February 19

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St. Odran, 452 A.D. Martyr and friend of St. Patrick. According to tradition, he drove Patrick’s chariot. Odran died when he changed places with Patrick in the vehicle just before an ambush by pagans was sprung.  

ST. CONRAD CONFALONIERI, FRANCISCAN HERMIT

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 20 

Blessed Francisco Marto and Blessed Jacinta Marto, together with their cousin, Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005) were the Roman Catholic children from Aljustrel near Fátima, Portugal, who said they witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and several apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917. Feastday Feb. 20

ST. LEO OF CATANIA, BISHOP  was bishop of the city of Catania, in Sicily. He was famed for his benevolence and charity, and his Christian love for the poor and the vagrant. The Lord granted him the gifts of healing various illnesses, and working miracles. Feb. 20

St. Wulfric, 1154 A.D. Hermit and miracle worker. Born at Compton Martin, near Bristol, England, he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly. After meeting with a beggar, he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury; Somerset, England. For his remaining years, he devoted himself to rigorous austerities and was known for his miracles and prophecies. While he was never formally canonized, Wulfric was a very popular saint during the Middle Ages, and his tomb was visited by many pilgrims. 

St. Colgan, 796 A.D. Abbot of Clanmacroise, in Offaly, Ireland. A friend of Blessed Alcuin, Colgan was called “the Wise” and “ the Chief Scribe of the Scots.”  

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 21

St. Peter Damian, Roman Catholic Order of St. Benedict (O.S.B.) was a reforming monk in the circle of Pope Leo IX and a cardinal. In 1823, he was declared a Doctor of the Church. Feb. 21

Saint Robert Southwell , English Martyr, Jesuit priest, poet., Feb. 21

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St. Severian, Roman Catholic Bishop and martyr. The bishop of Scythopolis in Galilee. He attended the Council of Chalcedon (451) and took part in the complete triumph of the orthodox Christian cause against the heretics of the era. On his return home he was assassinated by a group of heretics at the command of Emperor Theodosius II. Feastday Feb. 21

Bl. Pepin of Landen, Roman Catholic Frankish mayor of the palace, duke of Brabant, and the chief political figure during the reigns of the Frankish kings Clotaire II, Dagobert I, and Sigebert II .The husband of Blessed Ita, he was a close ally of Bishop Arnulf of Metz with whom he overthrew Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia. He was soon appointed mayor of the palace for his role. Following an incident in which he reprimanded King Dagobert I for his adulterous life, he was exiled from the court and went into retirement near Aquitaine. Recalled to serve as tutor to Dagobert's three year old son, Pepin once more became the chief figure of the kingdom until his death. Pepin earned a reputation for defending the interests of the Church, promoting the spread of Christianity, and working to have only truly worthy bishops appointed to Frankish sees. While never canonized, he is listed as a saint in some old martyrologies. He was an ancestor of Charlemagne; his grandson,  Pepin of Heristal, founded the Carolingian dynasty. Feastday Feb.21

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 22 

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St. Elwin, 6th century. Companion of St. Breaca from Ireland to Cornwall, England, also called Elvis or Allen. 

 

Bl. John the Saxon, 895 A.D. Monk and martyr. A monk in a monastery in France, he was invited to go to England by King Alfred the Great and to assist in the restoration of the Christian faith in the wake of the severe and destructive invasions by the Danes. Appointed abbot of Athelingay by Alfred, John served with vigor and distinction until his murder one night by two French monks under his care.  

Saint Margaret of Cortona, T.O.S.F., (1247 – February 22, 1297) was an Italian penitent of the Third Order of St. Francis ("T.O.S.F."). She was born in Laviano, near Perugia, and died in Cortona. She was canonized in 1728. She is the patron saint of the falsely accused; hoboes; homeless; insane; orphaned; mentally ill; midwives; penitents; single mothers; reformed prostitutes; stepchildren; tramps. Feastday February 22

Martyrs of Arabia, Christians who died for the faith in the lands east of the Jordan River and in the mountains south of the Dead Sea. Most were martyred in the reign of Emperor Galerius and were commemorated in the Roman Martyrology. Feb. 22

Bl. Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski, Roman Catholic Priest. Arrested by the Gestapo on October 18, 1939, he was imprisoned in the German concentration camps Stutthof, Grenzdorf, Sachsenhausen and Dachau, where he died. Feb. 22

ST. MAXIMIANUS OF RAVENNA, BISHOP, Bishop of Ravenna, Italy, ordained by Pope Vigilius in 546. Maximian erected St. Vitalis Basilica, which was dedicated in the presence of Emperor Justinian and his wife, Theodora. Feb. 22

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 23 

St. Polycarp, Roman Catholic Priest Bishop and Martyr. He was bound and burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to touch him. Feastday February 23

Martyrs of Sirmium, Two groups of Roman Catholic martyrs who suffered at Sirmium, modem Mitrovica, in the Balkans. One group was slain probably in 303 and was seventy in number. The second group was composed of seven virgins probably martyred in 303.

St. Martha, Roman Catholic Virgin martyr of Spain. She was beheaded at Astorga, Spain, and her relics were enshrined in the abbey of Ribas de Sil and at Ters. Feb. 23

 

B. GIUSEPPINA VANNINI, VIRGIN. Giuseppina Vannini is a 19th century religious sister from Rome known for founding the congregation of the Daughters of St. Camillus dedicated to serving the sick and suffering. She is the first Roman woman to be canonized in more than 400 years, according to ACI Stampa. Feb. 23

St. Boswell, 661 A.D. Abbot of Melrose, England, also called Boisil. Boswell trained as a monk under St. Aidan. As abbot, Boswell served as a biblical scholar. He was given a gift of prophecy and was known for his preaching, and he trained Sts. Cuthbert and Eghert. Boswell died of the plague. 

St. Jurmin, 7th century. Prince of East Anglia, England, and a relative of King Anna . He is honored as a confessor, and his relics were enshrined at Bury St. Edmunds.  

St. Milburga, 715 A.D. Benedictine abbess who received the veil from St. Theodore of Canterbury. She was the daughter of a king of Mercia and sister of Sts. Mildred of Thanet and Mildgytha. Milburga was abbess of Wenlock Abbey in Salop, Shropshire, England. Her father and her uncle, King Wulfhere, provided funds for the abbey. Among the remarkable abilities she evidenced were levitation and power over birds.  

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 24 

The Martyrs of Carthage. Montanus, Lucius, Victoricus, Flavian and companions were ten disciples of St Cyprian of Carthage. They were martyred there under the reign of the Emperor Valerian in 259. The story of their imprisonment and martyrdom is well documented. The group were arrested by an official called Solon after St Cyprian was executed in 258. they spent many months kept in dark dungeons with little food or water. Somehow in such inhuman conditions, the little Christian community bonded and helped one another. When they were finally called to the place of execution, each was permitted to speak. Montanus, who was tall and strong, spoke bravely to the Christian crowd. He told them to be true to Jesus and to die rather than give up the faith. Lucius, who was small and frail, walked quietly to the place of execution. He was weak from the harsh months in prison and had to lean on two friends. The people who watched called to him to remember them from paradise. As each of the Christians were beheaded one after another, the crowd wept and prayed. Feb. 24

Montanus, Lucius, Victoricus, Flavian and companions were ten disciples of St Cyprian of Carthage (in what is now Tunisia). They were martyred there, under the reign of the Emperor Valerian in 259. The story of their imprisonment and martyrdom is well documented.Feb. 24

St. Adela, 1137 A.D. Benefactor and English princess. Adela was the youngest daughter of William the Conqueror. In 1080 she married Stephen of Blois. Throughout her life, Adela had an active role in English politics. She was famed for endowing churches and monastic institutions.  

St. Cumine, 669 A.D. Irish abbot called “the White.” The abbot of Iona, Scotland, he wrote a biography of St. Columba.  

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 25

St. Walburga, 779 A.D. St. Walburga, Virgin. Walburga was born in Devonshire England, around 710. She was the daughter of a West Saxon chieftain and the sister of St. Willibald and Winebald. Walburga was educated at Wimborne Monastery in Dorset, where she became a nun. In 748, she was sent with St. Lioba to Germany to help St. Boniface in his missionary work. She spent two years at Bishofsheim, after which she became Abbess of the double monastery at Heidenheim founded by her brother Winebald. At the death of Winebald, St. Walburga was appointed Abbess of both monasteries by her brother Willibald, who was then Bishop of Eichstadt. She remained superior of both men and women until her death in 779. She was buried first at Heidenheim, but later her body was interred next to that of her brother, St. Winebald, at Eichstadt.  

ST. NESTOR, BISHOP OF MAGYDOS AND MARTYR Feb.25

Bl. Maria Adeodata Pisani Roman Catholic Nun, had "a difficult childhood as her parents did not live together. She renounced and disposed of her wealth, willingly living as a cloistered nun." Feastday Feb.25

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 26 

ST. FAUSTINIANO, BISHOP OF BOLOGNA

St. Alexander of Alexandria, Roman Catholic Priest becoming the bishop of the see in 313. The heresy of Arianism was sweeping the region, as Arius was preaching the doctrine there. Alexander excommunicated Arius in 321, a decision upheld by a council. Alexander is also credited with drawing up the acts of the First General Council of Nicaea in 325. Feb. 26

St. Isabel of France, Roman Catholic Virgin and Nun. Sister of St. Louis and daughter of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, she refused offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her life of virginity consecrated to God. She ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her mother, founded the Franciscan Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Longchamps in Paris. She lived there in austerity but never became a nun and refused to become abbess. Feastday February 26

St. Porphyry of Gaza, Roman Catholic Priest and bishop of Gaza, known from the account in his Life for Christianizing the recalcitrant pagan city of Gaza. Feb. 26

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS WITH OTHERS February 27 

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Bl. Mark Barkworth. Martyr of England, the first Benedictine to die at Tyburn. Born in Lincoinshire, he was a Protestant educated at Oxford. While in Europe, Mark visited Douai, France, and became a Catholic. He was ordained in Valladolid, Spain, in 1599, and became a Benedictine in Navarre while on his return to England. Mark was arrested soon after his return to his homeland, and three apostates testified against him. With Father Richard Filcock he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tybum on February 27 — the first English Benedictine Martyr. 

 

St. Anne Line, 1601 A.D. English martyr from Dunmow, Essex. The daughter of William Heigham, she was disowned by him when she married a Catholic, Roger Line. Roger was imprisoned for being a Catholic and was exiled and died in 1594 in Flanders, Belgium. Anne stayed in England where she hid Catholic priests in a London safe house. In this endeavor she aided Jesuit Father John Gerard until her arrest. Anne was hanged in Tyburn on February 27, 1601. Pope Paul VI canonized Anne Line in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. 

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ST. GABRIEL OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS, PASSIONIST, was born at Assisi in 1838. He was guided by Our Lady into the Passionist Order founded by Saint Paul of the Cross, and became a veritable Apostle of Her Sorrows.Feb. 27

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St. Oswald of Worcester (died 29 February 992) was Archbishop of York from 972 to his death in 992. Feb. 28

ST. HILARIUS, POPE, St. Hilary, Roman Catholic, Pope from 461-468 and guardian of Church unity. Hilary rebuilt many Roman churches and erected the chapel of St. John Lateran. Feastday February 28

ST. ROMANUS, ABBOT, he adopted the life of a hermit in the Jura Mountains, France, at age thirty five and was joined by his brother, St. Lupicinus, and many other disciples. The two brothers thus found it necessary to establish two monasteries, at Condat and Leuconne, and a convent at La Beaume which was governed by their sister. Feb. 28

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