Commemoration of Saints (February 20)

Solemnities, Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials, and Traditional Dates of Commemoration

• Sadoth, bishop
• Tyrannio, Cenobius and Companions, martyrs
• Eleutherius of Tournai, bishop
• Eucherius of Orleans, bishop
• Wulfric, also Ulfric or Ulric
• Elizabeth of Mantua

Elisabetta Picenardi, also known as St. Elizabeth of Mantua, (ca. 1428 – 19 February 1468 A.D.) was an Italian tertiary of the Servite Order. Elisabetta Picenardi was born in Mantua into a noble family and, despite pressure to wed a nobleman, insisted instead on pursuing the religious path alongside her sister. Elizabeth and that sister entered the Third Order of the Servites after their mother's death. Elizabeth was known to have the gift of making predictions - with one prediction accurately made about her death, before it happened a year after. Many miracles were reported to have happened at her tomb (died ca. 1468 A.D.).

Her beatification received formal confirmation on 20 November 1804 A.D. when Pope Pius VII affirmed her popular devotion in the Servite Order and the dioceseses of Mantua and Cremona. Learn more from Wikipedia.org

More on Saints for February 20

Saints in the Byzantine Calendar [February 20]

• Leo, bishop of Catania
• St. Sadok, Priest-Martyr
• St. Agatho, Venerable, Pope of Rome

Commemoration of Saints (February 19)

Solemnities, Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials, and Traditional Dates of Commemoration

• Mesrop, bishop
• Barbatus, bishop
• Beatus of Liebana
• Boniface of Lausanne, bishop
• Conrad of Piacenza

St. Conrad of Piacenza (1290-1351 A.D.) was born of a noble family, got married, and took up residence in Piacenza. He got into a bind because of a hunting venture and had to sell all his possessions to pay for the damages. The event caused his conversion and made him decide to be a Franciscan tertiary while his wife became a Poor Clare nun. Because large crowds were attracted by his reputation, he moved to Noto in Sicily, where he lived for thirty more years. When he died, numerous miracles were reported at his tomb. Learn more

Saints in the Byzantine Calendar [February 19]

• St. Archippus, Apostle & co-worker with St. Paul the Apostle
• Sts. Maxim, Theodot, Isychus and Asklepiodotus, Martyrs

Commemoration of Saints (February 18)

Solemnities, Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials, and Traditional Dates of Commemoration

• Simeon, bishop and martyr
• Leo and Paregorius, martyrs
• Flavian, bishop and martyr
• Helladius, bishop
• Colman of Lindisfarne, bishop
• Angilbert, abbot
• Theotonius, abbot
• John of Fiesole

St. Colman of Lindisfarne (d. ca. 676 A.D.) was bishop-abbot of the great monastery of Lindisfarne. He played a key role in 664 A.D. to resolve the differences between the Roman and Celtic practices regarding the dating of Easter and other observances, and the relationship of local churches to the see of Rome. He defended the Celtic ecclesiastical practices against St. Wilfrid and St. Agilbert. When the King ruled in favor of St. Wilfrid, St. Colman resigned from his episcopate and returned to a monastery he founded on the Isle of Inishbofin off the coast of Connacht, where they continued their practice of the Celtic rites. When dissension broke out between the Irish and the English monks, he founded another monastery at Mayo and was abbot of both monasteries.

St. Theotonius (1086-1166 A.D.) was the abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Portugal. Born in Spain, he was the nephew of a Bishop of Coimbra in Portugal and was ordained a priest. He was diligent in his duties and gained a reputation for his sanctity. When repeatedly urged to accept a position as bishop, he refused to do so. After two pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Theotonius decided to enter a monastery, becoming one of the original members of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine. St. Theotonius lived the last thirty years of his life in the Monastery of the Holy Cross before dying at the age of eighty.

Saints in the Byzantine Calendar [February 18]

• Leo the Great, Pope of Rome