⛪ February 27

📰 Sts. Abundius, Alexander, Antigonus, and Fortunatus (early martyrs in Rome or Greece)

📰 St. August Chapdelaine of La Rochelle [Auguste] (French, parish priest, member of Paris Foreign Missions Society in Asia, tortured and martyred by beheading in China at age 42 in 1856 [beatified 1900, canonized 2000])

📰 St. Baldomerus of Lyons (French, locksmith, monk, d. 650)

📰 Sts. Besas, Cronion Eunus, and Julian, of Alexandria (Egyptian ... soldier, servant, and prisoner ... martyred in 250)

📰 Bl. Emmanuel of Cremona [Manuele] (Italian, bishop, died in Netherlands in 1198)

📰 Bl. Frances Ann of the Sorrowful Virgin Cirer Carbonell of Sencelles [Francisca Ana de la Virgen de los Dolores] (Spanish, virgin, member of Institute of the Sisters of Charity, died at age 73 in 1855 [beatified 1989])

📰 St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows Possenti of Assisi [Gabriele dell'Addolorata] [baptized Francesco] (Italian, Passionist  priest, died two days before his 24th birthday [tuberculosis] in 1862 [beatified 1908, canonized 1920])

📰 St. Honorina (French, early martyr)

📰 St. John of Gorze (French, Benedictine  monk, c. 975)

📰 Bl. Joseph Tous y Soler of Igualada [Josep/José] (Spanish [Catalan], Capuchin  parish priest, founded Capuchin Sisters of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd, died while celebrating Mass at age 59 in 1871 [beatified 2010])

📰 St. Leander of Cartagena (Spanish, brother of three saints, monk, bishop of Seville, died at about age 65 c. 600)

📰 Bl. Mark Barkworth of Lincolnshire [alias Mark Lambert, alias George Barkworth] (English, Benedictine  priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 28 in 1601 [beatified 1929])

📰 Bl. Mary of Charity Brader of Kaltbrunn [Maria Caritas] [baptized Maria Josefa Carolina] (Swiss, virgin, founded Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, died in Colombia at age 72 in 1943 [beatified 2003])

📰 Bl. Mary of Jesus Deluil-Martiny of Marseilles [Marie-de-Jesus] (French, virgin, founded Daughters of the Heart of Jesus, died at age 43 in 1884 [beatified 1989])

📰 Bl. Roger Filcock of Sandwich (English, Jesuit  priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Elizabeth I at about age 30 in 1600 [beatified 1987])

📰 St. Thalelaeus Epiklautos of Cilicia ["epiklautos" is Greek for "weeping much"] (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], hermit in Syria for 60 years, d. 450)

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