⛪ February 26

📰 St. Agricola of Nevers (French, bishop, c. 594)

📰 St. Alexander of Alexandria (Egyptian, bishop, excommunicated heretic Arius, key figure at Council of Nicaea, trained St. Athanasius, died at about age 75 c. 326)

📰 St. Andrew of Florence (Italian, bishop, c. 407)

📰 Bl. Ciriaco María Sancha y Hervás of Quintana del Vidio (Spanish, seminary professor in Cuba, cardinal archbishop of Toledo, founded a congregation of the Sisters of Charity, died at age 75 in 1909 [beatified 2009])

📰 St. Dionysius of Augsburg (German, bishop, martyred c. 303)

📰 St. Faustinian of Bologna (Italian, bishop, 4th Century)

📰 St. Fortunatus, St. Felix, and 27 companions (early martyrs)

📰 St. Irene of Gaza (Egyptian, virgin, died at about age 20 in 490)

📰 Bl. Isabelle of Longchamps (French, princess, sister of King St. Louis IX, lived with Poor Clare  nuns, d. 1270 [beatified 1520])

📰 Bl. Leo of Saint-Bertin (Belgian, Benedictine  abbot, d. 1163)

📰 Bl. Matilda of Spanheim [Mechtilde] (German, Benedictine  hermitess, d. 1154)

📰 St. Nestor of Perge (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], bishop of Magydos, martyred by crucifixion in 251)

📰 Sts. Papias, Diodorus, Conon, and Claudian, of Pamphylia (from Asia Minor, shepherds, tortured and martyred c. 250)

📰 St. Paula of St. Joseph of Calasanz Montal Fornés of Arenys de Mar [Paula de San José de Calasanz] [baptized Paula] (Spanish, seamstress, lace-maker, virgin, foundress of Daughters of Mary ["Pious School Sisters"], died at age 89 in 1889 [beatified 1993, canonized 2001])

📰 Bl. Piety of the Cross Ortiz Real of Bocairente [Piedad de la Cruz] [baptized Tomasa] (Spanish, founded Congregation of Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died at age 73 in 1916 [beatified 2004])

📰 St. Porphyry of Thessalonica (Greek, hermit in Egypt and Palestine, bishop of Gaza, died at about age 66 in 420)

📰 St. Quodvultdeus of Carthage [name means "What God wills"] (North African [from what is now Tunisia], bishop, died in Italy c. 450)

📰 Bl. Robert Drury of Buckinghamshire (English, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] at about age 39 under James I in 1607 [beatified 1987])

📰 St. Victor of Troyes (French, nobleman, hermit, priest, d. 7th Century)

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