Feast of St. Romanus of Condat, hermit, founder, Lauconne, La Balme and Condat Abbeys, France and Romainmôtier Priory, Switzerland. Patron of drowning victims, insanity and the mentally ill.
Monthly Archives: February 2026
Feast of St. Baldomerus
Feast of St. Baldomerus, sub-deacon, monk, at the monastery of St. Justus, Lyon, France. Known for his personal piety, charity and simple living, He was a locksmith and blacksmith before becoming a monk. Patron of locksmiths.
Feast of St. Porphyry of Gaza
Feast of St. Porphyry of Gaza, hermit, Bishop of Gaza. Converted the recalcitrant pagan city of Gaza and demolishing its temples. Known through his biography, Vita Porphyrii, by Mark the Deacon. Porphyry died in 347.
Feast of St. Nestor of Magydos
Feast of St. Nestor of Magydos, Hieromartyr (Eastern Church), Bishop of Magydos, Pamphylia, Turkey. Martyred in 250.
Feast of St. Betto
Feast of St. Betto, Benedictine monk at Saint-Colombe abbey, Sens, France. Bishop of Auxerre, France in 889. Died in 918.
Feast of St. Polycarp of Smyrna
Feast of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, martyr, 2nd-century bishop of Smyrna, Turkey, disciple of Saint John the Apostle and friend of Saint Ignatius of Antioch. One of earliest Christian writers. Patron against earache and dysentery.
Feast of St. Margaret of Cortona
Feast of St. Margaret of Cortona, Italian penitent, 3rd Order of St. Francis, born in Laviano, Perugia. Patron of hoboes, homeless, insane, orphaned, mentally ill, midwives, penitents, single mothers, single laywomen, third children, reformed prostitutes, stepchildren and tramps.
Feast of St. Severian
Feast of St. Severian, martyr, Bishop of Scythopolis, Palaestina Secunda, (Galilee). Attended the Council of Chalcedon, assassinated in 452.
Feast of St. Eucherius of Orleans
Feast of St. Eucherius of Orleans, Benedictine bishop of Orleans, France, nephew of Suavaric, bishop of Auxerre. Opposed Charles Martel’s confiscation of church property to fund the Battle of Tours and the war against the Moors that helped to end the Islamic Expansion Era.
Feast of St. Hugh dei Lippi Uggucioni
Feast of St. Hugh dei Lippi Uggucioni, Friar. One of the Seven Holy Founders of The Order of Servants of Mary (Servite Order), one of the five original mendicant orders. Hugh served as the vicar general of the Servites in Germany. Patron of the Servite Order. Died 1282.