⛪ February 22

📰 Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the Apostle

📰 St. Abilius of Alexandria (Egyptian, patriarch [bishop], c. 98)

📰 Bl. Angel Portasole of Perugia [Angelo] (Italian, Dominican  friar, bishop of Iglesias, d. 1334)

📰 Holy Martyrs of Arabia (Arabian/Jordanian, early martyrs)

📰 St. Aristion of Salamis (Israelite, one of the 72 disciples of Jesus, missionary to Cyprus, martyred in 1st Century)

📰 St. Athanasius of Nicomedia (Constantinopolitan [Turkish], abbot, c. 818)

📰 St. Baradates (Syrian, desert hermit, c. 460)

📰 St. Elwin of Cornwall (British, 6th Century)

📰 Bl. John the Saxon of Athelingay (French, Benedictine  monk, abbot in England, martyred in 895)

📰 St. Margaret of Cortona [Margherita] ["Magdalen of the 13th Century"] (Italian, unwed mother, repentant fornicatress, Franciscan  tertiary, mystic, died at about age 49 in 1297 [canonized 1728]) [commemorated by some on May 16]

📰 Bl. Mary of Jesus d'Hooghvorst of Wegemont [Marie-de-Jésus] [baptized Emilie, nee d'Oultremont] (Belgian, widow, founded Institute of St. Mary Reparatrix, died at about age 60 in 1878 [beatified 1997])

📰 St. Maximianus of Pola (Italian, bishop of Ravenna, died at about age 56 in 556)

📰 St. Papias of Hierapolis (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], bishop, c. 120)

📰 St. Paschasius of Vienne (French, bishop, c. 312)

📰 St. Raynerius of Beaulieu [Rainier] (French, Benedictine  monk, c. 967)

📰 Bl. Stephen Vincent Frelichowski of Chelmza [Stefan Wincenty] (Polish, priest, arrested by Nazi GeStaPo, kept in five concentration camps [last Dachau], martyred [typhus] at age 32 in 1945 [beatified 1999])

📰 Sts. Thalassius and Limnaeus (Syrian, hermits, 5th Century)

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