February Saints
and Catholic Feasts Calendar
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, Feb.2
February 1: St. Brigid of
Ireland, Princess who became a nun and started
convents
all over
Ireland - February 1 Saints of the Day, events of February 1
February 2: Feast of Candlemas, the
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of Virgin Mary,
February 2 Saints of the Day, events of February 2
February 3: St. Blaise, Blase,
Bishop of Armenia and physician - St. Ansgar, Anskar,
February 4: St. Andrew Corsini,
a wild youngster who became the "Apostle of Florence"
- St. Joseph of Leonissa - St. Jane of Valois - February 4 Saints of the Day, events of
February 4
February 5: St. Agatha, the
Sicilian Virgen consecrated to Jesus whose breasts were cut off -
February 5 Saints of the Day.
February 6: St. Paul Miki and his 25 Companions
crucified at Nagasaki, February 6 Saints of the Day, events of February 6
February 7: Blessed Pius IX, the last
Pope
to hold temporal power
- February 7
Saints of the Day, events of February 7
February 8: St. Jerome Emiliani, the wealthy youngster who run away at 15 and became a priest, founding
orphanages, hospitals, houses for prostitutes and a congregation, the Order
of Somahchi - St. Josephine Bakhita, the only Saint originally from
Sudan
-
February 9: Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich,
the Stigmatist with tons of visions and prophesies, body incorrupt -
Ash Wednesday - February 9 Saints of the Day, events of February 9
February 10: St. Scholastica,
twin sister of St. Benedict - February 10
Saints of the Day, events of February 10
February 11: Our Lady of Lourdes Apparitions, February 11 Saints of the Day, events of February 11
February 12: St. Julian the Hospitaller,
Julian the Poor, he killed his parents - February 12 Saints of the Day, events of
February 12
February 13: St. Catherine Ricci, visions,
ecstasies, stigmata... and Purgatory -February
13 Saints of the Day, events of February 13
February 14: St. Valentine of Rome, Valentine's
Day - St. Cyril and St. Methodius, two brother monks apostles of Russia
- February 14 Saints of the Day, events of
February 14
February 15: Blessed Claude de la Colombiere with
St. Margaret Mary of Alacoque - St. Faustinus and Jovita, martyrs
- February 15 Saints
of the Day, events of February 15
February 16: St. Onesimus,
slave converted by St. Paul - St.
Gilbert of Sempringham, the Gilbertines, their "plate of the Lord Jesus"
- February 16 Saints of the Day, events of February 16
February 17: The seven founders of the Servants
of Mary or Servites - February 17 Saints of the Day, events of February 17
February 18: St. Bernadette of Lourdes,
Bernardette Soubirous - St. Simon, the cousin of Jesus - February 18 Saints of the Day, events of
February 18
February 19: St. Conrad of Piacenza, the
nobleman who set a fire - St. Alvarez
of Cordova, wonderful stories, Escalaceli (Ladder of Heaven),
- February 19 Saints of the Day.
February 20: Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto
of Fatima, February 20 Saints of the Day, events of February 20
February 21: St. Peter Damian,
a Benedictine
Doctor of the Church
- February 21
Saints of the Day, events of February 21
February 22: Chair of Saint Peter, the
Apostle - St. Margaret of Cortona, the adulterous as a
Franciscan tertiary with ecstasies - February 22 Saints of the Day, events of
February 22
February 23: St. Polycarp of Smyrna, martyr,
disciple of St. John the Apostle -
February 23 Saints of the Day, events of February 23
February 24: St. Adela, a
Princess of England with her
February 25: Blessed Sebastian of Aparicio,
a wealthy Spaniard, the "Angel of Mexico" - February 25 Saints of the Day, events of February 25
February 26: St. Paula Montal,
February 27: St. Leander of Seville,
introduced the Creed at Mass,
February 28: Blessed Daniel Brottier, in the
trenches, in Paris - St. Hedwig, Queen of Poland, converted her husband - February 28 Saints of the Day, events of February
28
February 29: No Patron Saints
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