Feb 25, 2010

⛪ February 25


πŸ“° Bl. Adelelmus of Engelberg (German, Benedictine  abbot in Switzerland, d. 1131)

πŸ“° St. Aldetrudis of Maubeuge (French, granddaughter of two saints, daughter of two saints, sister of three saints, Benedictine  abbess, c. 696)

πŸ“° St. Ananias and eight companions (Phoenician [from what is now Lebanon] ... priest, jailer, and seven guards ... martyred c. 298)

πŸ“° St. Avertanus of Limoges (French, Carmelite  brother, d. 1380)

πŸ“° St. Caesarius of Nazianzos (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], brother of St. Gregory Nazianzen, emperor's physician, died at about age 39 in 369)

πŸ“° Bl. Constantius Bernocchi of Fabriano [Costanzo] (Italian, Dominican  prior, died at about age 70 in 1481 [beatified 1811])

πŸ“° Bl. Dominic Lentini of Lauria [Domenico] (Italian, diocesan priest, died at age 57 in 1828 [beatified 1997])

πŸ“° Sts. Donatus, Justus, Herena, and 47 companions (African, martyred in 3rd Century)

πŸ“° St. Ethelbert of Kent (British, king for 36 years, died at about age 55 in 616)

πŸ“° St. Gerland of BesanΓ§on (French, bishop of Girgenti in Sicily, d. 1104)

πŸ“° Bl. James Carvalho of Coimbra [Diogo] and sixty companions (Portuguese, Jesuit  missionary priest and sixty disciples, martyred by exposure to cold in Japan at about age 46 in 1624 [beatified 1867])

πŸ“° Bl. Maria Adeodata Pisani of Naples (Maltese, Benedictine  sister, died at age 48 in 1855 [beatified 2001])

πŸ“° Bl. Mary Louise De Angelis of San Gregorio [Maria Ludovica] [baptized Antonina] (Italian, religious of Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy in Argentina, children's hospital worker, died at age 81 in 1962 [beatified 2004])

πŸ“° Bl. Rani Maria Vattalil of Pulluvazhy [baptized Mariam (Mary)] (Indian, member of Syro-Malabar church, religious of the Franciscan Clarist  congregation, martyred at age 41 in 1995 [beatified 2017])

πŸ“° Bl. Sebastian Aparicio of La GudiΓ±a ["Angel of Mexico"] (Spanish, farm laborer, maker of plows and wagons, valet, road builder, postal worker, widower, Franciscan  brother from age 72, miracle worker, begged alms until death at age 98 in 1600 [beatified 1787])

πŸ“° St. Tarasius of Constantinople (Turkish, secretary of state, patriarch [bishop], d. 806)

πŸ“° Bl. Victor of Saint Gall (Swiss, Benedictine  monk, hermit, d. 995)

πŸ“° Sts. Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudian, Dioscorus, Serapion, and Papias, of Corinth (Greek, exiles to Egypt, tortured and martyred [three smashed in a mortar, others chopped to pieces, burned, beheaded, drowned] in 284)

πŸ“° St. Walburga of Devonshire (British, princess, daughter of St. Richard, Benedictine  abbess in Germany, died at about age 68 in 779)

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