Fevreir-23-acem Sogglem Santam
Inscriçoes de Menologia para Fevreir 23 (Concannim: Aizcem festam; Portugues: Festa dos santos do dia; English: Feasts of the Saints of the day).
ALSO, TODAY, on the movable liturgical calendar, is Sexagesima Sunday. (Link)
V.: "Deliver us from the Shaitans!"*
R.: Amen!
(*Spontaneous prayer of Christians of Ceilão in wake of Mahomettan Infidels' Terror Attacks, Bombings of Churches Easter 2019 A D.)
ROMAN MARTYROLOGY 1914:
The Vigil of the Apostle St. Matthias. (In a leap-year, the Vigil of St. Matthias is transferred to Feb. 24).
At Faenza, St. Peter Damian, Cardinal bishop of Ostia, and Doctor of the Church, celebrated for learning and sanctity; he died Feb. 22, in the early morning of the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Antioch, & Pope Leo XII fixed his feast for Feb. 23; the Whore Church of Roman Protestantism, of the Great Modernist Apostasy, which, while masquerading as the "Catholic Church," Apostatized from Christianity, from Catholicism, Oct. 28, 1958, to teach the Apostate Heresy of Modernism, a subsection of Liberal Protestantism, & which includes within itself the Apostate Heresy of Panreligionism or Omnism, effectively & disciplinarily teaching, "All gods're one, all religions're true, one can attain to heaven through the sincere practice of any belief system," has impotently, unauthorisedly & ineffectually pretended to transfer this liturgical feast to Feb. 21, which cannot be observed without Grave affront to the Divine Majesty, a Mortal Sin! (Link1 & Link2)
At Sirmium, St. Sirenus, monk and martyr. By order of the emperor Maximian, he was arrested and beheaded, for confessing that he was a Christian.
In the same place, the birthday of seventy-two holy martyrs, who ended the combat of martyrdom in that city, and took possession of the everlasting kingdom.
At Rome, St. Polycarp, priest, who with blessed Sebastian converted many to the faith of Christ, and by his exhortations led them to the glory of martyrdom.
In the city of Astorga, St. Martha, virgin and martyr, under the emperor Decius, and the proconsul Paternus.
At Constantinople, St. Lazarus, a monk whom the Iconoclast emperor Theophilus ordered to be put to the torture for having painted holy images. His hand was burned with a hot iron, but being healed by the power of God, he painted anew the holy pictures that had been defaced, and finally rested in peace.
At Berscia, St. Felix, bishop.
At Seville, in Spain, St. Florentius, confessor.
At Todi, St. Romana, virgin, who was baptized by Pope St. Sylvester. She led a Heavenly life in caves and dens, and wrought glorious miracles.
In England, St. Milburga, virgin, daughter of the king of Mercia.