--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in February: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/february/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in February, day by day: St. Agatha (Feb 5), St. Scholastica (Feb 10) and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints by feast day # Saints’ feast days in *February* February has 29 saints in Bless’s calendar, one for each of its 29 days. In 2026–2028 the US calendar keeps the day of 4 of them as a memorial, feast or solemnity at least once, among them St. Agatha and St. Scholastica. About these dates Feast days, titles and patronages come from the app’s calendar of saints; “Memorial”, “Feast” and “Solemnity” mark the saints whose day the US calendar keeps (at least once in 2026–2028). ## February 1 ### [St. Brigid of Kildare](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-brigid-of-kildare/) Abbess · died c. 525 Patron of Ireland, dairy workers, and newborns Born to a chieftain and a slave, she gave away her father’s goods to beggars until he let her go to God. [The life of St. Brigid of Kildare](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-brigid-of-kildare/) ## February 2 ### [St. Joan de Lestonnac](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joan-de-lestonnac/) Religious · died 1640 Niece of Montaigne, widowed mother of four in Huguenot Bordeaux, who at fifty-five founded the Company of Mary Our Lady — the first religious order of women dedicated to teaching girls, patterned on the Jesuits. Deposed by an intriguer in her own order, she bore it in silence and was vindicated. [Upcoming dates for St. Joan de Lestonnac](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joan-de-lestonnac/) ## February 3 ### [St. Blaise](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-blaise/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 316 Patron of those with ailments of the throat Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, a physician by training, martyred under Licinius after — the old accounts say — a period hiding in a cave where wild animals came to him to be healed. [The life of St. Blaise](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-blaise/) ## February 4 ### [St. John de Brito](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-de-brito/) Priest and Martyr · died 1693 A Portuguese courtier turned Jesuit missionary who lived as an Indian ascetic in Madurai — saffron robe, sandals, vegetarian diet — to preach Christ within the culture. Banished once, he returned knowing the cost, and was beheaded. The king he had converted kept the faith. [Upcoming dates for St. John de Brito](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-de-brito/) ## February 5 ### [St. Agatha](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agatha/) Virgin and Martyr · died c. 251 (Memorial) Patron of nurses and Sicily A noble Sicilian maiden of Catania who consecrated her virginity to Christ; the magistrate Quintianus, spurned, invoked the persecution edicts against her. [The life of St. Agatha](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agatha/) ## February 6 ### [St. Paul Miki and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul-miki-and-companions/) Martyrs of Japan · died 1597 (Memorial) When Japan turned against the faith it had welcomed, twenty-six Christians — Jesuit brothers, Franciscan friars, and laymen, the youngest twelve years old — were marched six hundred miles through winter to Nagasaki and crucified… [The life of St. Paul Miki and Companions](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-paul-miki-and-companions/) ## February 7 ### [St. Colette](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-colette/) Virgin · died c. 1447 A carpenter’s orphan of Picardy who lived walled in a hermit’s cell until visions of Francis of Assisi sent her out — barefoot, at twenty-five — to reform the Poor Clares. She founded or renewed seventeen convents, counseled princes during the Great Schism, and never lost her gentleness. [Upcoming dates for St. Colette](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-colette/) ## February 8 ### [St. Josephine Bakhita](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-josephine-bakhita/) Virgin · died 1947 Patron of Sudan and victims of human trafficking Kidnapped in Darfur at about seven, sold five times, tortured — she forgot her own name; ‘Bakhita,’ the lucky one, was the slavers’ irony. [The life of St. Josephine Bakhita](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-josephine-bakhita/) ## February 9 ### [St. Apollonia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-apollonia/) Virgin and Martyr · died c. 249 Patron of dentists and those with toothache An aged deaconess of Alexandria seized in an anti-Christian riot; the mob broke her teeth and threatened fire unless she blasphemed. [The life of St. Apollonia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-apollonia/) ## February 10 ### [St. Scholastica](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-scholastica/) Virgin · died c. 543 (Memorial) Patron of nuns and against storms Twin sister of Benedict, consecrated to God from childhood, who settled near Monte Cassino and saw her brother once a year at a farmhouse between their monasteries. [The life of St. Scholastica](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-scholastica/) ## February 11 ### [St. Benedict of Aniane](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-benedict-of-aniane/) Abbot · died c. 821 A Frankish courtier who left Charlemagne’s service for the cloister and became the second father of Benedictine life, reforming the empire’s monasteries under one observance and compiling every monastic rule known to him into a single great codex. [Upcoming dates for St. Benedict of Aniane](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-benedict-of-aniane/) ## February 12 ### [St. Meletius of Antioch](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-meletius-of-antioch/) Bishop · died c. 381 Patriarch of Antioch three times exiled by Arian emperors, who baptized and ordained John Chrysostom, opened the Council of Constantinople, and died presiding over it — mourned by the whole assembly as a father of the Nicene faith. [Upcoming dates for St. Meletius of Antioch](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-meletius-of-antioch/) ## February 13 ### [St. Catherine de' Ricci](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-de-ricci/) Virgin · died 1590 A Dominican prioress of Prato who for twelve years relived the Passion in weekly ecstasies she begged God to make less public, corresponded with three future saints, and governed her convent with such practical wisdom that half of Tuscany sought her counsel. [Upcoming dates for St. Catherine de' Ricci](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-catherine-de-ricci/) ## February 14 ### [Sts. Cyril and Methodius](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-cyril-and-methodius/) Apostles to the Slavs · died c. 885 (Memorial) Two brothers of Thessalonica, Constantine the philosopher and Michael the governor, who left careers in Byzantium to answer a Moravian prince’s plea for teachers. [The life of Sts. Cyril and Methodius](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-cyril-and-methodius/) ## February 15 ### [St. Claude de la Colombière](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-claude-de-la-colombiere/) Priest · died 1682 The Jesuit sent to Paray-le-Monial who discerned, alone, that Margaret Mary’s visions of the Sacred Heart were true — Christ had promised her that a faithful servant and perfect friend would come. Chaplain in Protestant England, he was imprisoned in the Titus Oates panic and died of it at forty-one. [Upcoming dates for St. Claude de la Colombière](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-claude-de-la-colombiere/) ## February 16 ### [St. Onesimus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-onesimus/) Bishop and Martyr The runaway slave converted by Paul in prison and sent back to his master with the letter to Philemon, which asks that he be received no longer as a servant but as a most beloved brother. Ancient tradition makes him afterward a bishop and a martyr under Domitian: the Gospel’s answer to slavery in one life. [Upcoming dates for St. Onesimus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-onesimus/) ## February 17 ### [Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order](https://blessbible.app/saints/seven-holy-founders-of-the-servite-order/) Religious · died c. 1310 Seven cloth merchants of Florence who left their prospering trade in 1233 for a life of common prayer on Monte Senario, devoted to the Sorrows of Mary. From their hillside came the Servants of Mary; the Church canonized all seven together, as they had lived. [Upcoming dates for Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order](https://blessbible.app/saints/seven-holy-founders-of-the-servite-order/) ## February 18 ### [St. Flavian of Constantinople](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-flavian-of-constantinople/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 449 Patriarch of Constantinople who condemned the heresy that dissolved Christ’s humanity, was deposed by the ‘Robber Council’ of Ephesus and beaten so badly he died within days. Leo’s Tome, written to him, vindicated his faith at Chalcedon two years later. [Upcoming dates for St. Flavian of Constantinople](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-flavian-of-constantinople/) ## February 19 ### [St. Conrad of Piacenza](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-conrad-of-piacenza/) Hermit · died c. 1351 A young nobleman whose hunting fire destroyed a countryside; when a poor man was condemned for it, Conrad confessed, paid with his whole fortune, and took the lesson to heart — spending his remaining forty years as a penitent hermit in Sicily, famous for peace and healings. [Upcoming dates for St. Conrad of Piacenza](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-conrad-of-piacenza/) ## February 20 ### [Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-francisco-and-jacinta-marto/) Children of Fatima · died 1920 The two youngest seers of Fatima, seven and nine when the Virgin appeared in 1917. Francisco gave himself to ‘consoling the hidden Jesus’; Jacinta to sacrifices for sinners. Both died in the influenza epidemic within three years, the youngest non-martyr saints the Church has canonized. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-francisco-and-jacinta-marto/) ## February 21 ### [St. Peter Damian](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-damian/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 1072 A Ravenna orphan who herded swine, gained an education, and fled a brilliant career for the hermitage of Fonte Avellana, where he became the conscience of a corrupt century. [The life of St. Peter Damian, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-peter-damian/) ## February 22 ### [St. Margaret of Cortona](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-of-cortona/) Penitent · died c. 1297 A farmer’s beautiful daughter who lived nine years as a nobleman’s mistress; his murder shattered her. Barefoot, with her son, she did public penance at Cortona, founded a hospital and a company of nurses for the poor, and became — her confessor recorded — a mystic the town called simply ‘the poverella.’ [More on St. Margaret of Cortona](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-margaret-of-cortona/) ## February 23 ### [St. Polycarp](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-polycarp/) Bishop and Martyr · died c. 155 Bishop of Smyrna and disciple of John the apostle — one of the last living links to those who had seen the Lord. Ignatius wrote to him; Irenaeus remembered his stories all his life. [The life of St. Polycarp, with 2 quotations](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-polycarp/) ## February 24 ### [St. Ethelbert of Kent](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ethelbert-of-kent/) King · died c. 616 The first Christian king of the English, who received Augustine’s mission courteously — under the open sky, wary of magic — then freely embraced the faith. He built Canterbury’s first cathedral, wrote the earliest English law code, and compelled no man’s conversion. [Upcoming dates for St. Ethelbert of Kent](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ethelbert-of-kent/) ## February 25 ### [St. Walburga](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-walburga/) Abbess · died c. 779 An English nun summoned by her uncle Boniface to the German mission, where she governed the double monastery of Heidenheim over monks and nuns alike — a trained physician, remembered for healing. Her tomb at Eichstätt has drawn pilgrims for twelve centuries. [Upcoming dates for St. Walburga](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-walburga/) ## February 26 ### [St. Porphyry of Gaza](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-porphyry-of-gaza/) Bishop · died c. 420 A rich Thessalonian who gave everything away in the deserts of Egypt and Palestine, then, made bishop of pagan Gaza against his will, won his hostile city over by patience, courage in plague, and care for the poor. [Upcoming dates for St. Porphyry of Gaza](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-porphyry-of-gaza/) ## February 27 ### [St. Gregory of Narek](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-of-narek/) Doctor of the Church · died c. 1003 An Armenian monk whose Book of Lamentations — ninety-five prayers he offered as conversations with God from the depths of the heart — is the treasure of Armenian Christianity, kept under pillows of the sick for a thousand years. Rome declared the monk of Narek a Doctor of the universal Church in 2015. [Upcoming dates for St. Gregory of Narek](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-gregory-of-narek/) ## February 28 ### [St. Oswald of Worcester](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-oswald-of-worcester/) Bishop · died c. 992 A Danish-blooded English bishop of the great tenth-century reform, who refounded monasteries, taught in his cathedral school, and died as he had lived — on his knees, washing the feet of twelve poor men, as he did daily in Lent. [Upcoming dates for St. Oswald of Worcester](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-oswald-of-worcester/) ## February 29 ### [St. Auguste Chapdelaine](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-auguste-chapdelaine/) Priest and Martyr · died 1856 A Norman farmer’s son turned missionary to the hidden Christians of Guangxi, arrested within two years, and killed on the leap day of 1856 after refusing to renounce the faith. He stands among the canonized martyrs of China; his death became the pretext of empires, his fidelity the treasure of the Church. [Upcoming dates for St. Auguste Chapdelaine](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-auguste-chapdelaine/) [Previous month Saints of January](https://blessbible.app/saints/january/) [Next month Saints of March](https://blessbible.app/saints/march/) Spotted a mistake in a date, a patronage or a quotation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here.