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Saints of 23 February

32 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 23 February, with short facts.

Marian titles (2)

  • Our Lady of the Divine Cry Also called Madonna del Divin Pianto, Our Lady of the Divine Weeping, Beata Vergine Maria del Divin Pianto, About, and Sisters of Santa Marcellina.
  • Our Lady of the Rocks

Saints (17)

  • St. Polycarp of Smyrna Born: c.69. Died: stabbed to death c.155 at Smyrna. Patronage: against dysentery and against earache.
  • St. Alexander Akimetes Born: 4th century on one of the Aegean Islands of Greece. Died: 403 in Gomon. Also called Alexandros.
  • St. Boswell Born: Northumbrian (in modern England). Died: 661. Also called Boisil.
  • St. Dositheus of Egypt Born: Egypt. Also called Dositheus of Gaza.
  • St. Felix of Brescia Born: 6th century. Died: 650.
  • St. Florentius of Seville Died: c.485 in Seville, Spain.
  • St. Giovanni Theristi Born: c.995 in Palermo, Italy. Died: c.1050 in Stilo, Calabria, Italy. Patronage: Stilo, Italy. Also called Giovanni Terestes, Giovanni Teresti, Giovanni Theristis, Giovanni Theristus, and Giovanni of Palermo.
  • St. Martha of Astorga Died: beheaded in 250 at Astorga, Spain. Patronage: Astorga, Spain.
  • St. Medrald Died: 850. Also called Merald, Merault, Meraut, Meraldo, Medraldo.
  • St. Milburga Born: 7th century England. Died: 715 at the Much Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire, England. Patronage: birds.
  • St. Ordonius Died: 1066.
  • St. Polycarp of Rome Died: c.300.
  • St. Primianus of Ancona Born: Greece. Also called Primiano, Primus.
  • St. Romana Born: c.308. Died: c.324 in her cave on Mount Soracte near Rome, Italy.
  • St. Serenus the Gardener Born: Greece. Died: beheaded 23 February 303 at Sirmiun, Pannonia (modern Hungary). Patronage: bachelors, falsely accused people, and gardeners. Also called Serenus of Billom, Serenus of Sirmio, and Serenus of Sirmium.
  • St. Willigis of Mainz Born: at Schoningen, Germany. Died: 23 February 1011. Also called Villigiso, Willigiso.
  • St. Zebinus of Syria Died: 5th century.

Blessed (12)

  • Blessed Alerinus de Rambaldis Born: late 14th century in Alba, Cuneo, Italy. Died: 21 July 1456. Also called Alerino Rembaudi.
  • Blessed Anselm of Milan Died: 1481.
  • Blessed Elfrieda Schilling Born: 5 May 1908 in Wroclaw, Poland. Died: shot twice on 23 February 1945 in Nowogrodziec (a.k.a. Naumburg am Queis), Boleslawiec, Poland. Beatified: 11 June 2022 by Pope Francis. Also called Sister Maria Rosaria.
  • Blessed Giovannina Franchi Born: 24 June 1807 in Como, Italy. Died: 23 February 1872 in Como, Italy. Beatified: 20 September 2014 by Pope Francis. Patronage: Nursing Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows.
  • Blessed John of Hungary Born: French. Died: 1287.
  • Blessed Josephine Vannini Born: 7 July 1859 at Rome, Italy. Died: 23 February 1911 in Rome, Italy. Canonized: 13 May 2019. Also called Giuditta Vannini and Giuseppina Vannini.
  • Blessed Juan Lucas Manzanares Born: 10 December 1913 in Cortiji-Lorca, Murcia, Spain. Died: 23 February 1937 in Madrid, Spain. Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis. Also called Braulio Carlos.
  • Blessed Ludwik Mzyk Born: 22 April 1905 in Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland. Died: 23 February 1942 in Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Ludivico Mzyk and Ludvig Mzyk.
  • Blessed Milo of Benevento Born: Auvergne, France. Died: c.1073 in Benevento, Italy. Also called Milo of Auvergne and Milone....
  • Blessed Nicolas Tabouillot Born: 16 February 1745 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France. Died: 23 February 1795. Beatified: 1 October 1995 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Rafaela Ybarra Arambarri de Villalonga Born: 16 January 1843 in Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain. Died: 23 February 1900 in Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain. Beatified: 30 September 1984 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski Born: 22 January 1913 in Chelmza, Poland. Died: 23 February 1945. Beatified: 7 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Torun, Poland.

Martyr groups (1)

  • Martyrs of Syrmium Died: c.303 at Syrmium, Pannonia (modern Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia).

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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