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February 24 2026:

First (4th century) and Second (452) Findings of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist. Saint John the Harvester (Theristos), of Calabria (9th century). Martyrs Montanus, Lucias, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, and their companions, at Carthage (259); Saint Primitiva (Primitivus), an early martyr, probably in Rome; Saint Modestus, Bishop of Trier in Germany and Confessor (489); Saint Praetextatus (Prix), Bishop of Rouen in France and Martyr (586); Saint Liudhard (Letard), Chaplain and Bishop of Queen Bertha of Kent (c. 600); Saint Æthelberht, King of Kent (616); Saint Boisil of Melrose Abbey (664); Saint Cummain Ailbe (Cumine the White), Abbot of Iona (669); Saint Betto, a monk at Sainte Colombe in Sens in France, became Bishop of Auxerre in 889 (918); Venerable Erasmus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (c. 1160); Other Commemorations: Uncovering of the relics (1486) of St. Romanus, Prince of Uglich (1285)

( February 11 2026: Julian Calendar )

Hieromartyr Blaise (Vlassios), Bishop of Sebaste, and the two children and seven women martyred with him (316); Hieromartyr Lucius of Adrianople (348); Righteous Theodora the Iconodule, wife of Emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast; Saint Blaise the Hieromartyr of Acarnania (1006); Saint Calocerus, disciple of St Apollinaris, whom he succeeded as Bishop of Ravenna, Confessor (c. 130); Martyrs of North-West Africa, the 'Guardians of the Holy Scriptures' (303); Martyrs Saturninus, Dativus, Felix, Ampelius, Victoria and Companions (304) (see also February 12); Saint Lazarus of Milan, Archbishop, who defended his flock from the Ostrogoths (449); Saints Priscus the Bishop, with Castrensis, Tammarus, Rosius, Heraclius, Secundinus, Adjutor, Mark, Augustus, Elpidius, Canion and Vindonius, priests (5th century); Saint Severinus, Abbot of Agaunum in Switzerland (507); Saint Desideratus (Désiré), successor of St Avitus as Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne (6th century); Saint Desiderius, Bishop of Vienne and martyr (608); Saint Cædmon of Whitby, monk of Whitby, Yorkshire, father of English poetry (c. 680); Saint Gobnait, Abbess of Ballyvourney, Cork, Ireland (7th century); Saint Gregory II, Pope of Rome (731); Saint Benedict of Aniane, monastic reformer (821); Saint Gabriel of Pskov (Prince Vsevolod of Pskov), Prince and wonderworker of Pskov (1138); Venerable Demetrius, monk and wonderworker of Priluki Monastery in Vologda (1392); New Martyr George of Kratovo, Serbia, at Sofia, burned at the stake (1515) Venerable Cassian the Barefoot (in the world 'Kosmas'), ascetic of the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery (1532); Other Commemorations: Uncovering of the relics of Saint Zechariah the Prophet, the father of St. John the Baptist (415) Repose of Archbishop Simon of Shanghai and Peking (1933).

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