⛪ February 4

📰 St. Aldate of Gloucester (British, 5th centuy)

📰 St. Andrew Corsini of Florence [Andrea] (Italian, Carmelite  prior and provincial, bishop of Fiesole, died at about age 71 in 1373 [beatified 1374, canonized 1629])

📰 Sts. Aquilinus, Geminus, Gelasius, Magnus, and Donatus, of Fossombrone (Italian, martyred in 3rd Century)

📰 St. Aventinus of Troyes (French, hermit, d. 538)

📰 St. Aventinus of Chartres (French, bishop, c. 520)

📰 St. Eutychius of Rome (Italian, tortured and martyred [thrown into well] in 4th Century)

📰 St. Gillebert of Limerick (Irish, bishop, d. 1140)

📰 St. Isidore of Pelusium (Egyptian, hermit, abbot, theologian, author of over 2,000 extant letters, died at about age 74 c. 450)

📰 St. Joan of Valois [Jeanne] (French, princess, co-foundress of the contemplative Order of the Annonciades, died at about age 40 in 1505 [beatified 1742, canonized 1950])

📰 Bl. John Speed of Durham [alias Spence] (English, layman who helped "illegal" priests, martyred under Elizabeth I in 1594 [beatified 1929])

📰 St. John de Brito of Lisbon [João] (Portuguese, nobleman, Jesuit  priest, missionary to central Asia, may have converted 10,000 Hindus, martyred [dismembered and beheaded] in India at age 45 in 1693 [beatified 1853, canonized 1947])

📰 St. Joseph Desideri of Leonissa [Giuseppe] [baptized Eufranio] (Italian, Capuchin Franciscan  priest, converted highway bandits, missionary to Moslems, chaplain to galley slaves, died at age 56 in 1612 [beatified 1737, canonized 1746])

📰 St. Liephard (British, martyred in 649)

📰 St. Modan of Dryburgh (Irish, abbot in Scotland, hermit, 6th Century?)

📰 Bl. Nicholas Hermansson of Skänninge [Nils] (Swedish, poet, bishop of Linköping, died at about age 60 in 1391) [commemorated by some on July 24]

📰 St. Nicholas Studites of Canea (Cretan, abbot, died in what is now Turkey at about age 70 in 863)

📰 St. Nithard of Corbie (German, Benedictine  monk, missionary, martyred by Swedish pagans in 845)

📰 Bl. Obitius of Brescia [Obizio] (Italian, knight, Benedictine  monk, c. 1204 [beatified 1900])

📰 Sts. Phileas of Thmuis, Philoromus of Alexandria, and companions (Egyptian ... bishop, official, and others ... tortured and martyred by beheading c. 305)

📰 Bl. Rabanus Maurus of Mainz (German, headmaster of school, Benedictine  abbot, archbishop, fed hundreds of poor daily, religious writer and poet [composed "Veni, Creator Spiritus"], died at about age 79 in 856)

📰 St. Rembert of Bruges (Belgian, Benedictine  monk, missionary to Scandinavia, bishop of Hamburg-Bremen in Germany, d. 888)

📰 Bl. Simon of Saint-Bertin (French, Benedictine  abbot, d. 1148)

📰 St. Theophilus the Penitent of Adana (Cilician [Turkish], archdeacon, c. 538)

📰 St. Vincent of Troyes (French, bishop, c. 546)

📰 St. Vulgis of Lobbes (French, Benedictine  abbot, bishop, c. 760) 

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