St. Walpurga or Walburga (c. AD 710 – 25 February 777 or 779), was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire. She was canonized on 1 May c. 870 by Pope Adrian II. During her life, she traveled to what would become Germany to assist her uncle, St. Boniface in evangelizing the still-pagan Germans. Because […]
St. Ethelberht (c. 550 – 24 February 616) was King of Kent from about 589 until his death. The eighth-century monk Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, lists him as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In the late ninth century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he is referred to as
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St. Polycarp (AD 69 – 155) was a Christian martyr and bishop of Smyrna. He died bound and burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to consume his body. Polycarp is regarded as a saint and Church Father in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches. Both Irenaeus and
The Chair of Saint Peter, also known as the Throne of Saint Peter, is a relic conserved in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, the sovereign enclave of the Pope inside Rome, Italy. The relic is a wooden throne that tradition claims belonged to the Apostle Saint Peter, the leader of the Early Christians in
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St. Peter Damian (c. 1007 – 21 or 22 February 1072 or 1073) was a reforming Benedictine monk and cardinal in the circle of Pope Leo IX. Dante placed him in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Francis of Assisi and he was declared a Doctor of the Church on
St. Leo of Catania, nicknamed the Thaumaturgus, also known as St. Leo the Wonderworker in Sicily (May 703 or 709 – 20 February 789), was the fifteenth bishop of Catania, famed also for his love and care toward the poor. His feast day occurs on 20 February, the day of his death in which he
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St. Conrad of Piacenza (circa 1290 – 19 February 1351) was an Italian penitent and hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis. Married to Euphrosyne, the daughter of a nobleman; the two led a pious life in the world. One day while hunting, Conrad ordered attendants to set fire to some brush in order
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Blessed Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455), was a Dominican priest and Early Renaissance painter. Giorgio Vasari, who wrote the Lives of the Artists said he had “a rare and perfect talent”. The virtue and the profound religious spirit which characterized the life of this artist and Dominican is reflected
The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order, by name Bonfilius, Alexis, Manettus, Amideus, Hugh, Sostene and Buonagiunta of Florence, were seven holy men in the 13th century, in the town of Florence, Italy. The seven became bound to each other in a spiritual friendship that were eventually called by the Virgin Mother of God in
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St. Juliana of Nicomedia, Virgin and Martyr. Her feast falls on the anniversary of her martyrdom, February 16, 305. According to the Martyrology of the Venerable Bede, Juliana lived in the city of Nicomedia in Bythinia (now in Turkey). Juliana was martyred for the faith when she refused to marry a Roman prefect.
