Catholic Saints & Feasts of the Liturgical Year
If a list were made of the greatest human beings who have ever lived, the Catholic saints would be at the top. Though historians often attempt to judge greatness from a subjective perspective, there must be objective criteria by which human greatness is judged. The only Being capable of establishing that criteria is God. The criteria that God has established are the virtues, as identified by Jesus and revealed by Him through the holy Gospels. The goal of this podcast is to present each saint found on the Catholic liturgical calendar in such a way so as to identify the Godly virtues that place each one on that list. The Church has already confirmed the saints’ greatness and their heroic virtues. Importantly, God chose the men and women found in these pages, not only for greatness in their lifetimes, but also as models of holiness in ours. These men and women are gifts to you, given by God through the Church. Each podecast reflection comes from the four-volume series Saints and Feasts of the Liturgical Year. These reflections can be read at our website for free: mycatholic.life. They are also available for purchase in eBook and paperback.
Episodes
February 27: Saint Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church—Optional Memorial
951–c. 1003
Widely venerated in the Armenian Church
Declared a Doctor of the Church in 2015 and inscribed on the Church Calendar as an Optional Memorial by Pope Francis in 2021
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: Speaking with God from the Depths of the Heart. The voice of a sighing heart, its sobs and mournful cries, I...
February 23: Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr—Memorial
(Optional Memorial if Lenten weekday)
c. 65–c. 155 (or 166)
Invoked against earaches and dysentery
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: I exhort you all therefore to be obedient to the word of righteousness and to practice all endurance, which also you saw with your own eyes in the blessed Ignatius and Zosimus and Rufus, ye...
February 22: Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle—Feast
Liturgical Color: White
Quote: Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bou...
February 21: Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church—Optional Memorial
1007–1072
Patron Saint of Faenza and Font-Avellano, Italy
Pre-Congregation canonization
Canonization confirmed and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XII in 1823
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote: May your mind…fear the imminent day of Judgment, that you may not have to fear when it is upon you, that, as you pru...
Ash Wednesday
Quote: Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. ~Distribution of ashes
Reflection: It was a common practice within the early Church that those who were found guilty of grave public sin needed to do public penance before they were admitted back into communion with the Church and admitted to the Most Holy Eucharist. The public sinners came forward in sackcloth forty days before Easter and were ...
February 17: Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order—Optional Memorial
Thirteenth Century
Invoked to aid in the imitation of the charity and patience of Our Lady of Sorrows
Canonized January 15, 1888 by Pope Leo XIII
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
I have chosen you to be my first Servants, and under this name you are to till my Son’s Vineyard. Here, too, is the habit which you are to wear; its dark ...
February 14: Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop—Memorial
(Optional Memorial if Lenten weekday)
Saint Cyril: c. 827–869
Saint Methodius: c. 815–885
Co-Patrons of Europe, Slavic peoples, unity of Eastern and Western Churches
Pre-Congregation canonization
Quote: Hear my prayer and protect your faithful people, for you have established me as their unsuitable and unworthy servant. “Make your people known for the unity and pr...
February 11: Our Lady of Lourdes—Optional Memorial
January 11–July 16, 1858
Patron Saint of the sick, asthma sufferers
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
I went every day for a fortnight, and each day I asked her who she was, and this petition always made her smile. After the fortnight I asked her three times consecutively. She always smiled. At last I tried for the fourt...
February 10: Saint Scholastica, Virgin—Memorial
c. 480–543
Patron Saint of nuns, school, tests, reading, convulsive children
Invoked against storms and rain
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
The holy nun said to her brother: “Please do not leave me tonight; let us go on until morning talking about the delights of the spiritual life.” “Sister,”...
February 8: Saint Josephine Bakhita, Virgin—Optional Memorial
1869–1947
Patron Saint of Sudan and human-trafficking survivors
Canonized October 1, 2000 by Saint Pope John Paul II
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
If I was to meet those slave-traders that abducted me and those who tortured me, I’d kneel down to them to kiss their hands, because, if it had not have been for...
February 8: Saint Jerome Emiliani, Founder—Optional Memorial
1486–1537
Patron Saint of orphans and abandoned children
Canonized on July 16, 1767 by Pope Clement XIII
Liturgical Color: White (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
One morning, we were twenty-eight at St. Magdalene Hospital and we were praying. Since we had nothing to eat, father Jerome told us, “Do not doubt, my sons, the Lord will tak...
February 6: Saints Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs—Memorial
Martyred February 5, 1597
Patron Saints of Japan
Canonized by Pope Pius IX on June 8, 1862
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
Our brother, Paul Miki, saw himself standing now in the noblest pulpit he had ever filled. To his “congregation” he began by proclaiming himself a Japanese and a Jesuit. He was dying for the Gospel he preached. He ga...
February 5: Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr—Memorial
c. 231–c. 251
Patron Saint of breast cancer patients, martyrs, rape victims, bellfounders, and bakers
Invoked against earthquakes, natural disasters, and fires
Pre-Congregation canonization, later confirmed by Pope Saint Gregory the Great, 7th century
Liturgical Color: Red (Purple if Lenten Weekday)
Quote:
O Lord who made and created me, and ha...
February 3: Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr—Optional Memorial
Died c. 316
Patron Saint of illnesses of the throat and other illnesses, wool workers, animals, bricklayers, bakers, farm workers
Pre-Congregation canonization
Liturgical Color: Red
Quote:
Through the intercession of Saint Blase, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness. In t...
February 3: Saint Ansgar, Bishop—Optional Memorial
801–865
Patron Saint of Scandinavia, Denmark, Sweden, and various locations in Germany
Declared a saint by Pope Nicolas I c. 865
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
Most noble father, Anskar, restore us by thy grace, and those who wander now afar, in Christ’s own bosom place. In holy strife contending, thou did’st the faith proclaim, to Danes and Swe...
February 2: Presentation of the Lord—Feast
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves o...
January 31: Saint John Bosco, Priest—Memorial
1815–1888
Patron Saint of apprentices, boys, editors, laborers, magicians, students
Canonized by Pope Pius XI on April 1, 1934
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
My sons, in my long experience, very often I had to be convinced of this great truth. It is easier to become angry than to restrain oneself, and to threaten a boy than to persuade him. Yes, inde...
January 28: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor—Memorial
1225–1274
Patron Saint of students, Catholic schools, apologists, booksellers, chastity, philosophers, publishers, scholars, theologians
Invoked against storms
Canonized by Pope John XXII on July 18, 1323
Proclaimed Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius V in 1567
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
In order that the salvation of men might be brou...
January 27: Saint Angela Merici, Virgin—Optional Memorial
1474–1540
Patron Saint of sickness, death of parents, disabled, handicapped, or physically challenged people
Canonized May 24, 1807 by Pope Pius VII
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
My very own sisters, it is necessary that we be vigilant, and so much more so, as the undertaking is of such importance that there could be no greater, in which...
January 26: Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops—Memorial
Saint Timothy: 17–97
Invoked against intestinal disorders and stomach diseases
Saint Titus: First Century–96
Patron Saint of Crete
Liturgical Color: White
Quote:
I hope, in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be heartened by hearing news of you. For I have no one comparable to him for genuine interest in whatever co...
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