⛪ February 23

📰 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)

📰 St. Alexander Akimetes (Greek, army officer, abbot, d. 430)

📰 St. Boisil of Melrose (British, abbot, c. 664)

📰 St. Dositheus of Gaza (Egyptian, monk, c. 530)

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

📰 St. Florentius of Seville (Spanish, c. 485)

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

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

📰 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])

📰 St. Jurmin (British, prince, 7th Century)

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

📰 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])

📰 St. Martha of Astorga (Spanish, virgin, martyred by beheading in 252)

📰 St. Medrald of Vendome (French, Benedictine  abbot, c. 850)

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

📰 St. Mildgytha (British, Benedictine  nun, c. 676)

📰 St. Milo of Auvergne (French, archbishop of Benevento in Italy, d. 1076)

📰 St. Ordonius of Sahagún [Ordoño] (Spanish, Benedictine  monk, bishop of Astorga, d. 1066)

📰 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])

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

📰 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)

📰 St. Willigis of Schöningen (German, imperial chancellor, archbishop of Mainz, d. 1011)

📰 St. Zebinus (Syrian, hermit, 5th Century)