Feb 23, 2010

⛪ February 23


πŸ“° St. Polycarp of Smyrna (Palestinian?, disciple of St. John the Apostle, bishop in Asia Minor [now called Turkey] for over fifty years, martyred [stabbed] at age 86 c. 155)

πŸ“° St. Alexander Akimetes (Greek, army officer, abbot, d. 430)

πŸ“° St. Boisil of Melrose (British, abbot, c. 664)

πŸ“° St. Dositheus of Gaza (Egyptian, monk, c. 530)

πŸ“° St. Felix of Brescia (Italian, bishop, battled heretics for forty years, c. 650)

πŸ“° St. Florentius of Seville (Spanish, c. 485)

πŸ“° Bl. Jeannine Franchi of Como [Giovannina] (Italian, virgin, founded Nursing Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows, died at age 64 in 1872 [beatified 2014])

πŸ“° Bl. John of Hungary [Jean/Janos] (French, first Franciscan  friar in Hungary, d. 1287)

πŸ“° Bl. Josephine Vannini of Rome [Giuseppina] [baptized Giuditta (Judith)] (Italian, virgin, founded Congregation of the Daughters of St. Camillus, died at age 51 in 1911 [beatified 1994])

πŸ“° St. Jurmin (British, prince, 7th Century)

πŸ“° St. Lazarus Zographos of Constantinople ["zographos" is Greek for "painter"] (Turkish, monk, icon painter, c. 867)

πŸ“° Bl. Louis Mzyk of Chorzow Stary [Ludwik] (Polish, Divine Word Missionary  priest, martyred by Nazis at Poznan [Poland] at age 36 in 1942 [beatified 1999])

πŸ“° St. Martha of Astorga (Spanish, virgin, martyred by beheading in 252)

πŸ“° St. Medrald of Vendome (French, Benedictine  abbot, c. 850)

πŸ“° St. Milburga of Wenlock (British, princess, Benedictine  abbess, miracle worker, d. 715)

πŸ“° St. Mildgytha (British, Benedictine  nun, c. 676)

πŸ“° St. Milo of Auvergne (French, archbishop of Benevento in Italy, d. 1076)

πŸ“° St. Ordonius of SahagΓΊn [OrdoΓ±o] (Spanish, Benedictine  monk, bishop of Astorga, d. 1066)

πŸ“° Bl. Rafaela Ybarra de Villalongo of Bilbao (Spanish, mother, widow, founded Institute of the Sisters of Guardian Angels, died at age 57 in 1900 [beatified 1984])

πŸ“° St. Romana of Todi (Italian, hermitess, died at age 18 in 324)

πŸ“° St. Serenus the Gardener and 72 companions, of Sirmium (Greek and Pannonian [from part of what is now Serbia], hermit and others, martyred in 303)

πŸ“° St. Willigis of SchΓΆningen (German, imperial chancellor, archbishop of Mainz, d. 1011)

πŸ“° St. Zebinus (Syrian, hermit, 5th Century)

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