⛪ February 16

📰 St. Aganus of Airola (Italian, Benedictine  abbot, died at about age 50 in 1100)

📰 Bl. Bernard Scammacca of Catania [Bernardo] (Sicilian, Dominican  priest, prophet, mystic, died at about age 57 c. 1487 [beatified 1825])

📰 Sts. Elias, Jeremy, Isaias, Samuel, and Daniel (Egyptian, tortured and martyred by beheading in Palestine in 309)

📰 St. Faustinus of Brescia (Italian, bishop, d. 381)

📰 St. Gilbert of Sempringham (English, priest, founder of Order of Sempringham [only specifically English order -- now called "Gilbertines"] for men and women, died at about age 105 in 1189 [canonized 1202])

📰 St. Honestus of Nimes (French, priest in Spain, martyred in 270)

📰 Bl. Joseph Allamano of Castelnuovo d'Asti [Giuseppe] (Italian, priest, founded Consolata Society for Foreign Missions, died at age 75 in 1926 [beatified 1990])

📰 St. Julian and companions (Egyptian, early martyrs)

📰 St. Juliana of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], virgin, martyred [burned, boiled in oil, and beheaded] in Italy in 305)

📰 Bl. Mariano Arciero of Contursi Terme (Italian, parish priest, spiritual director at seminary, died at age 80 in 1788 [beatified 2012])

📰 St. Onesimus of Colossae (from Asia Minor, runaway then freed slave of Sts. Philemon and Apphia [see Pauline epistle to Philemon], possibly martyred by stoning in Spain c. 90)

📰 Bl. Philippa Mareri of Cicoli (Italian, hermitess, Poor Clare  abbess, died when under age 50 in 1236 [beatified 1806])

📰 Sts. Porphyrius and Seleucius, of Caesarea (Palestinian, martyred [Porphyrius torn by hooks, disemboweled, and burned -- and Seleucius beheaded] in 309)