Fevreir-26-acem Sogglem Santam
Inscriçoes de Menologia para Fevreir 26 (Concannim: Aizcem festam; Portugues: Festa dos santos do dia; English: Feasts of the Saints of the day).
PRIMARY LITURGICAL FEAST OF THE DAY: St. Nestorius, Martyr, Bishop of Magydos in Pamphylia. (Illustration of Crucifixion & Martyrdom of St. Nestor of Magydos from the Menologion of St. Basil II)
Our Lady of Liberation, Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Livrant Saibinn, Our Lady of Goa, Nossa Senhora da Goa, Goencem Saibinn, our Gracious Mother, intercede with our Lord God Jesus Christ, for your & our beloved Goa, Rome of the East, overrun by, & trod down under, the jackboots of the Forces of Darkness, & lying prostrated under these visceral Enemies of God & of His beloved Goa, & our larger national homeland, the Concan, deliver us from evil, from our twin benightments, & enslavements, the Occupation, & of the Whore Church, enlarge & liberate us from our spiritual & material captivity, as you had done before, delivering Goa from the Enemies of God & of His beloved Goa, from the Forces of Darkness, the Enacim, Amalecites, Canaanites, Philistines, Ammonites, Moabites, Etc., of our time & place: Paganism, Idalcao, the Dutch, English, Marathas, Mughals, the bandit Tipoo, son of Hyder, the Bonsales & Ranes, etc. Vindicate, & restore Mother Goa, O beloved Mother of God! We make this prayer through the same Lord God Jesus Christ, thy Son, Who is, in unity with God the Father, & God the Holy Ghost, one God, forever & ever, Amen!
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.)
FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE FIELDS: at Stezzano in the vicinity of Bergamo. (Link1 & Link2)
ROMAN MARTYROLOGY 1914:
At Pergen, in Pamphylia, during the persecution of Decius, the birthday of the blessed bishop Nestor, who, praying night and day for the preservation of the flock of Christ, was put under arrest. As he confessed the name of the Lord with great joy and freedom, he was most cruelly tortured on the rack, by order of the governor Pollio, and still courageously proclaiming that he would ever remain faithful to Christ, he was suspended on a cross; and thus triumphantly went to Heaven.
[St. Nestorius, Martyr, Bishop of Magydos in Pamphylia, in Eastern Greece. During the persecutions under Emperor Decius, Nestor was arrested while praying in his home, and after undergoing torture at Perga or Perge, the Lycian city that was the capital of the province of Pamphylia Secunda, to exact his conformation to the worship of the demons, he was executed by crucifixion. His constancy in the faith under torture was so noteworthy that the presiding Roman magistrate Pollio or Epolius of Lycia said, "Until we have got the better of the bishop, we shall be powerless against the Christians." His feast day is Feb. 26.]
In the same place, the passion of Saints Papias, Diodorus, Conon, and Claudian, who preceded St. Nestor to martyrdom.
Also, the holy martyrs Fortunatus, Felix, and twenty-seven others.
At Alexandria, the bishop St. Alexander, an aged man held in great honor, who succeeded blessed Peter as bishop of that city. He expelled from the Church Arius, one of his priests, tainted with heretical impiety, and convicted by divine truth, and subsequently was one of the three hundred and eighteen Fathers who condemned him in the Council of Nicaea.
At Bologna, the bishop St. Faustinian, whose preaching strengthened and multiplied the faithful of that Church, which had been much afflicted during the persecution of Diocletian.
At Gaza, in Palestine, in the time of the emperor Arcadius, St. Porphyry (Porphyrius), bishop, who overthrew the idol Marnas and its temple, and after undergoing many sufferings, including lynchings and nearly being murdered, went to rest in the Lord, Feb. 26, 420 A.D. (Link)
At Florence, St. Andrew, bishop and confessor. [St. Andrew, Bishop of Florence, who successfully evangelized his diocese to elimate all traces of paganism; died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 407 A.D.]
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.)
FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE FIELDS: at Stezzano in the vicinity of Bergamo. (Link1 & Link2)
ROMAN MARTYROLOGY 1914:
At Pergen, in Pamphylia, during the persecution of Decius, the birthday of the blessed bishop Nestor, who, praying night and day for the preservation of the flock of Christ, was put under arrest. As he confessed the name of the Lord with great joy and freedom, he was most cruelly tortured on the rack, by order of the governor Pollio, and still courageously proclaiming that he would ever remain faithful to Christ, he was suspended on a cross; and thus triumphantly went to Heaven.
[St. Nestorius, Martyr, Bishop of Magydos in Pamphylia, in Eastern Greece. During the persecutions under Emperor Decius, Nestor was arrested while praying in his home, and after undergoing torture at Perga or Perge, the Lycian city that was the capital of the province of Pamphylia Secunda, to exact his conformation to the worship of the demons, he was executed by crucifixion. His constancy in the faith under torture was so noteworthy that the presiding Roman magistrate Pollio or Epolius of Lycia said, "Until we have got the better of the bishop, we shall be powerless against the Christians." His feast day is Feb. 26.]
In the same place, the passion of Saints Papias, Diodorus, Conon, and Claudian, who preceded St. Nestor to martyrdom.
Also, the holy martyrs Fortunatus, Felix, and twenty-seven others.
At Alexandria, the bishop St. Alexander, an aged man held in great honor, who succeeded blessed Peter as bishop of that city. He expelled from the Church Arius, one of his priests, tainted with heretical impiety, and convicted by divine truth, and subsequently was one of the three hundred and eighteen Fathers who condemned him in the Council of Nicaea.
At Bologna, the bishop St. Faustinian, whose preaching strengthened and multiplied the faithful of that Church, which had been much afflicted during the persecution of Diocletian.
At Gaza, in Palestine, in the time of the emperor Arcadius, St. Porphyry (Porphyrius), bishop, who overthrew the idol Marnas and its temple, and after undergoing many sufferings, including lynchings and nearly being murdered, went to rest in the Lord, Feb. 26, 420 A.D. (Link)
At Florence, St. Andrew, bishop and confessor. [St. Andrew, Bishop of Florence, who successfully evangelized his diocese to elimate all traces of paganism; died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 407 A.D.]
In the territory of Arcis, St. Victor, confessor, whose eulogy was written by St. Bernard.
OTHER SAINTS:
The Holy Martyrs Saints Fortunatus, Felix and 27 Companions, Martyrs, their history is lost.
The Holy Martyrs of Alexandria Saints Alexander, Ampliatus, Donatinus, Epionus, Ingenuus, Justus, Nestorius, & Theon, at an unknown date in Alexandria in Egypt, their history is lost.
Saints Adalbert & Ottokar of Tegernsee, brothers, counts respectively of Warngau and of Tegernsee, cofounded the Abbey of St. Quirinus in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Adalbert became its first abbot and Ottokar, who predeceased him, became a monk there.
St. Agricola, Bishop of Nevers, 570 to 594 A.D., died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 594 A.D.
St. Arnold of Stromberg, servant of St. Walter of Himmerode (Jan. 17), the two men joined the Cistercians together at the Heisterbach Abbey near Oberdollendorf. Arnold is buried on the Stromberg opposite Bonn in Oberdollendorf near the site of the despoiled Heisterbach Abbey.
St. Dionysius, first Bishop of Augsburg, martyred under Diocletian. In the "Conversion of St. Afra," he appears as her maternal uncle, ordained priest and later consecrated bishop by the missionary bishop Narcissus of Gerona and martyred after his niece. Today is the liturgical celebration of the translation of his relics, authorized by Pope Alexander IV in 1258 A.D., in the Church of St. Ulrich in Augsburg, the predecessor of today's Basilica of Sts. Ulrich and Afra. (Link).
St. Ethna, Irish hermitess, daughter of Baite; Colgan remembers her as sister of Feidelma, who (Feidelma) is mentioned in the Acts of St. Patrick. Ethna is also remembered in the Martyrologies of Tallaght and Gorman and the Martyrology of Donegal.
St. Eutropia, a Roman noblewoman in the province of Syracuse, related to the imperial family, and mother of St. Euthalia, Virgin & Martyr, & of Servilianus, who murdered his sister Euthalia for reverting. She witnessed the miraculous healing of Saints Thecla and Justina by Saints Alphius, Cyrinus and Philadelphus, and after the martyrdom of these holy brothers, she prayed for their intervention and healing from bleeding. She received a vision of the brothers who told her that conversion would cure her problem; they also foretold the death of her daughter, Euthalia. When she woke, she found Euthalia, told her of the dream vision, and they both requested baptism. After the martyrdom of her daughter, Eutropia lived with Saints Thecla and Justina, and helped spread the faith in the Lentini area.
St. Flavian or Flavianus, Bishop of Como, 553 to 565, died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 565 A.D.
St. Irene of Gaza, a pagan, she witnessed, at about 14 years of age, a mob lynching St. Porphyrius, Bishop of Gaza; the sight sickened her, and she came to his rescue, causing enough trouble that the pagans abandoned him; she rescued him, and tended to his wounds, and he brought her to Christianity; died in the peace of the Lord, in 490 A.D., she is commemorated on the same day as St. Porphyrius.
St. Leo of Saint-Bertin, born at Furnes, Flanders to a noble Flemish family, was almoner at the court of the Count of Flanders when he was 20 but left to become a monk at the monastery at Auchin. He was appointed abbot of Lobbes Abbey and restored the abbey and discipline there. In 1138 A.D., Leo was named abbot of the famous Saint-Bertin Monastery, which he ruled for 25 years. In 1146, Leo accompanied Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders, to Jerusalem during the Second Crusade, bringing back reputed drops of blood of Christ supposedly collected by Joseph of Arimathea while he was washing the Savior's body. These are still venerated at Bruges, Belgium. In 1152, his monastery was destroyed by fire but with the help of William of Ypres, he rebuilt it. Leo was blind the last two years of his life. Died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 1163 A.D.
St. Martin Martini, according to the Franciscan Martyrology, was a Franciscan lay brother who lived between the 12th and 13th centuries. He was a revert, possibly from Mahomettanism, but more probably from Judaism. He never became a friar and never professed his religious vows. He lived by performing the most humble services, including that of cook, in the Franciscan convent of St Francis in Lisbon. He never wore more than a simple habit, he always went barefoot, feeding himself only with bread and water without anything else, he spent the whole night contemplating, crying and harshly disciplining himself. One morning, having devoted himself more than usual to prayer, he forgot his duties in the kitchen, so much so that the kitchen remained closed, and the monks had no breakfast. The friar guardian reprimanded him greatly for his negligence. Later in the day when he needed to cook lunch, he was again lost in his prayers; one of the friars came to check on him and found angels cooking for him. Died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 1249 A.D.
St. Mechthilda or Mathilda, Hermitess at Mainz & Sponheim, died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 1154 A.D. at Sponheim.
St. Michaela Ranzi of Vercelli, Augustinian nun, a relative of Saints Demosthenes Ranzi, Angela Bartolomea dei Ranzi, Angela Isabella dei Ranzi and Candidus Ranzi. Elected prioress of her monastery in Vercelli, Italy in 1485. Renowned for her purity, peity and devotion to the Rule of her Order. Died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 1493 A.D. (Link)
St. Robert Drury or Drewrie, Priest, Martyr, murdered Feb. 26, 1607 at Tyburn, London, England by the traitors & apostates usurping England, for refusing to worship Satan. Not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope. (Link)
St. Servulus, 14th Bishop of Verona, after St. Luperius and before St. Petronius. In the "Catalogus Sanctorum Ecclesiae Veronensis," Msgr. Franco Segala transcribes the elogium from the Martyrology of the Veronese church: "Veronae sancti Servuli confessoris et eiusdem civitatis apiscopi (eximia sanctitate ac studio pro poluli sui salute conspicui)." The Apostate Whore Church has pretended to transfer his feast to a collective feast of all bishops of Verona for April 17, which cannot be observed without Grave Affront to the Divine Majesty, a mortal sin!
St. Ulrich of Obermarchtal, was a Premonstratensian monk at Mönchsrot monastery in Memmingen. In 1171 A.D., he was assigned to the Premonstratensian house of Obermarchtal in Swabia, and in 1179 was chosen its prior. Died in the peace of the Lord, Feb. 26, 1187.
NOT CANONIZED:
Piety (Piedade) de la Cruz, nee Tomasa Ortiz Real, died Feb. 26, 1916 in Alcantrarilla, Murcia, Spain.
Paula of St. Joseph of Calasanz, nee Paula Montal Fornes, Feb. 26, 1889 at Olesa de Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
