Saints for 29 February?

[Andruschak]

None listed in my 12 volume edition of Butler’s Saints

 

[ASimpleSinner]

Saint John Cassian is on the Greek Catholic and Orthodox Calendar for today…

From the GOA website:

“This Saint was born about the year 350, and was, according to some, from Rome, according to others, from Dacia Pontica (Dobrogea in present-day Romania). He was a learned man who had first served in the military. Later, he forsook this life and became a monk in Bethlehem with his friend and fellow-ascetic, Germanus of Dacia Pontica, whose memory is also celebrated today. Hearing the fame of the great Fathers of Scete, they went to Egypt about the year 390; their meetings with the famous monks of Scete are recorded in Saint John’s Conferences. In the year 403 they went to Constantinople, where Cassian was ordained deacon by Saint John Chrysostom; after the exile of Saint Chrysostom, Saints Cassian and Germanus went to Rome with letters to Pope Innocent I in defence of the exiled Archbishop of Constantinople. There Saint Cassian was ordained priest, after which he went to Marseilles, where he established the famous monastery of Saint Victor. He reposed in peace about the year 433.”

His commemoration, however, is now transferred to the 28th otherwise.

It is noted today at the blog Roman Miscellany"

The 2004 Roman Martyrology lists four saints for today, who are thus only commemorated once every four years (although for other years there is an option to celebrate them on 28 February):

Pope St Hilary/Hilarus (reigned 461-68), successor to St Leo the Great, who continued the fight against Arianism, made important decisions about the Church in Spain and Gaul, and added three chapels to the baptistery at the Lateran. He is buried at S Lorenzo fuori le Mura (not too far from Blessed Pius IX).

St Oswald (d.992), Benedictine of Fleury and Archbishop of York, who is said to have died while washing the feet of the poor (his daily Lenten practice).

Blessed Antonia of Florence (d.1472), a mother and widow who became a Poor Clare at Aquila, Italy. She was a disciple of

St John Capistran.St Augustine Chapdelaine (1814-54), priest of the Society of the Foreign Missions, Paris, martyred in Guangxi, China.

Let’s especially pray to them on their feast.

 

[cheeto1]

St. Oswald.
He was a monk who had a habit during Lent of washing
the feet of 12 poor people each day. On February 29,
he died while washing the feet of the 12th person.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Pope St Hilary/Hilarus (reigned 461-68), successor to St Leo the Great, who continued the fight against Arianism, made important decisions about the Church in Spain and Gaul, and added three chapels to the baptistery at the Lateran. He is buried at S Lorenzo fuori le Mura (not too far from Blessed Pius IX).

Pope St Hilarius was also the funniest pope ever to occupy the Seat of Peter.


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[ASimpleSinner]

Pope St Hilarius was also the funniest pope ever to occupy the Seat of Peter.


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(groan!)

Alright, that was kinda funny actually…