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Showing posts with label February. Show all posts
Showing posts with label February. Show all posts
Monday, June 19, 2017

St Romuald OSB (June 19; Feb 7)

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Fr Angelico Today is the feast of St Romuald in some calendars - in the 1962 calendar his feast is celebrated in Febuary, but he actua...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

St Matthias (Feb 24)

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St Matthias was of course the apostle elected to replace Judas.  The readings for the second Nocturn, by St Augustine, go to the importa...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Feast of the Chair of St Peter (Feb 22)

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Today's feast combines what were, until 1960, two separate feasts, namely of St Peter as bishop of Antioch, and St Peter as bishop ...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

St Antoinine of Sorrento OSB (14 February)

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Today the martyrology remembers St Antoinine, an abbot who probably lived in the ninth century.  According to the Wikipedia, he was born ...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

February 11: St Benedict of Aniane

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St Benedict of Aniane (747 – 821) was the great codifier of monastic practice and rules under the Carolingian Empire, and is often credite...
Friday, February 10, 2017

February 10:St Scholastica, Class I/II

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St Scholastica (c480-543) was the twin sister of St Benedict.  She originally set up a monastery at Subiaco, and followed her brother wh...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

St Romuald OSB (Feb 7)

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 Fra Angelico ca1440 Today is the feast of St Romuald (950-1027), founder of the Camaldolese Congregation of Benedictines.  The Mart...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

St Agatha (Feb 5)

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Here is the Matins reading for St Agatha, today's saint: Agatha, born in Sicily of noble parents, suffered a glorious martyrdom at...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

From the (2001) martyrology: St Rabanus Maurus (Feb 4)

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St Rabanus supported by Alcuin dedicates his work to AB Otgar of Mainz Manuscript circa 831-40 Today is the feast of an important bu...

From the martyrology: St Gilbert of Sempringham (Feb 4)

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Today the martyrology records the feast of the founder of England's distinctive double order, the Gilbertines (alas, long since def...
Friday, February 3, 2017

St Blaise (February 3)

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St Blaise rates only a commemoration in the Benedictine Office, but his feast is traditionally associated with the sacramental of the b...
Thursday, February 2, 2017

The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Feb 2)

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Presentation at the Temple by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1342 This feast has acquired several names over the centuries - the Purification o...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

St Ignatius (Feb 1)

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The reading from Matins: Ignatius, chosen to be the second successor of Peter as bishop of Antioch, was accused of being a Christian ...
Friday, February 14, 2014

St Valentine (Memorial, Feb 14)

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St Valentine is one of a small band of martyrs (along with St Thomas More) who died not least in the defence of the Christian conceptio...
Monday, February 6, 2012

From the martyrology: St Dorothy (Feb 6)

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SS Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Alexandria and Dorothy c1480 St Dorothy is one of those saints dropped from the 1969 calendar, ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

February 23: St Peter Damian OSB, memorial

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Pope Benedict XVI gave a General Audience on this important Benedictine saint in 2009: "...Today I would like to reflect on one of ...