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Feast of the Seven Founders of the Servite Order
Date: February 17 Can you imagine seven prominent men banding together, leaving their homes and professions, and going into solitude… Read More
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Feast of Saint Juliana of Nicomedia
Date: February 16 The veneration of the virgin martyr Juliana, a maiden of Nicomedia (Izmit, Turkey), is very ancient in the east and the… Read More
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Feast of Saint Claude de la Colombière
Date: February, 15 This is a special day for the Jesuits, who claim today’s saint as one of their own.… Read More
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Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Date: February, 14 Because their father was an officer in a part of Greece inhabited by many Slavs, these two… Read More
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Feast of Saint Catherine de Ricci
Date: February, 13 Saint Catherine was born in Florence in 1522. Her baptismal name was Alexandrina, but she took the name of Catherine… Read More
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Feast of Saint Buonfiglio Monaldo
Date: February, 12 He was one of seven Florentines who had joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin (the Laudesi)… Read More
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Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
Date: February, 11 February 11th marks the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade… Read More
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Feast of Saint Scholastica
Date: February, 10 St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God from her earliest youth. After her brother went to Monte… Read More
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Feast of Saint Apollonia
Date: February, 9 While most of the Christians were fleeing the city following the persecution of Christians which began in… Read More
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Feast of Saint Richard
Date: February, 7 Richard was from Wessex, England, and his real name is uncertain. He appears to have been an… Read More