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Saints of 21 February

28 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 21 February, with short facts.

Saints (22)

  • St. Peter Damian Born: 1007 at Ravenna, Italy. Died: 22 February 1072. Canonized: 1823 by Pope Leo XII (cultus confirmation). Patronage: Faenza, Italy. Also called Petrus Damiani.
  • St. Robert Southwell Born: 1561 in Horsham Saint Faith, Norfolk, England. Died: hanged. Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI Works.
  • St. Avitus II of Clermont Died: 689.
  • St. Claudius of Palermo Died: 303 in Palermo, Italy.
  • St. Daniel of Persia Died: 344.
  • St. Ercongotha Died: 660. Also called Ercongota, Ercongote.
  • St. Eustathius of Antioch Born: c.270 at Sida, Pamphylia (in modern Turkey). Died: c.337 at Philippi, Macedonia. Also called Eustathius the Great and Eustacius, Eustatius, Eustace, Eustazio.
  • St. Felix of Metz Also called Felice.
  • St. George of Amastris Born: at Kromna near Amastris on the Black Sea. Died: c.825.
  • St. Gundebert of Sens Died: c.676.
  • St. James of Osroena
  • Martyrs of Hadrumetum Born: Trier, Germany. Died: c.434 at Hadrumetum (modern Sousse, Tunisia) Saint Germanus of Granfield c.677. Also called German.
  • Martyrs Uchibori Died: 21 February 1627 in Shimabara, Nagasaki, Japan c.677 in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Beatified: 24 November 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI Saint Randoald of Granfield. Also called Rancald, Randaut.
  • St. Massimus of Palermo Died: 303 in Palermo, Italy.
  • St. Paterius of Brescia Died: 606.
  • St. Pepin of Landen Born: 575. Died: c.646 at Landen, Brabant, Belgium. Also called Pepin the Elder, Pepin I, and Pippin, Pipino.
  • St. Peter Mavimenus Died: c.737 in Damascus (in modern Syria). Also called Peter the Scribe.
  • St. Sabinus of Palermo Died: 303 in Palermo, Italy.
  • St. Severian of Scythopolis Died: 452 or 453 (records vary). Also called Severianus, Severinus.
  • St. Severus of Syrmium Died: mid-3rd century in Syrmium, Pannonia (modern Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia).
  • St. Valerius of San Pedro de Montes Born: 7th-century Astorga, Spain. Died: 695. Also called Valerius of Astorga, Valerius del Bierzo, Valerius Berdigensis, and Valerio....
  • St. Verda of Persia Died: 344.

Blessed (5)

  • Blessed Caterina Dominici Born: 10 October 1829 in Borgo Salsasio, Carmagnola, Turin, Italy. Died: 21 February 1894 in Turin, Italy. Beatified: 7 May 1978 by Pope Paul VI. Also called Anna Caterina, Maria Enrichetta, Maria Henrich Dominici, and Mother Maria Enrica Dominici.
  • Blessed Claudio di Portaceli Born: France.
  • Blessed Eleanora Born: 1222 in Provence, France. Died: 25 June 1291 at the Benedictine abbey of Amesbury, England. Beatified: no formal beatification; popular devotion began at her death and continues. Also called Eleonora.
  • Blessed Noël Pinot Born: 19 December 1747 at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. Died: guillotined on 21 February 1794 at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. Beatified: 21 October 1926 by Pope Pius XI. Also called Natalis, Natale.
  • Blessed Thomas Pormort Born: c.1560 in Little Limber, Lincolnshire, England. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Thomas Whitgift.

Martyr groups (1)

  • Martyrs of Sicily Died: c.303 on Sicily.

This list combines the Vatican News “Saint of the day” pages with a long-form calendar of saints, blessed, and feasts (credited on our Resources page). Calendars differ, so a note marks each place the sources disagree. This is not the General Roman Calendar. Resources · Sources & method

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