Saints of the day february 5
Saint Philip of Jesus (s. XVI)
Mexican martyr who gave his life for jesus in Nagasaki (Japan). He is Patron Saint of the city of Mexico and of his Archbishopric.
View moreSaint Adelaida (s. XI)
In Cologne, Lotharingia, saint Adalheide or Adelaide (Adela, Adelita), who was the first Abbess of the monastery of Vilich, where he introduced the rule of Saint Benedict, after going to the monastery of Saint María de Colonia, where he died.
Saint Albinus (s. XI)
Saint Sabas el Joven (s. X)
In Rome, in the monastery of Saint Cesareo, saint Sabas, monk, called the young, together with his brother saint Macario spread the monastic life by Calabria and Lucania, in time of the devastation caused by the Saracens.
Saint Jesús Méndez (s. XX)
Saint Francisca Mézière (s. XVIII)
In Laval, France, blessed Francisca Meziere, Virgin and martyr, who has been dedicated to educating children and heal sick, during the French Revolution she was sentenced to death in hatred of the faith.
Saint Avitus (s. VI)
Saint Ingenuino (s. VII)
In Sabiona, Reece, saint Ingenuino, first bishop of this see (c. 605).
Blessed Elizabeth Canori Mora (s. XIX)
Saints Mártires del Ponto (s. III)
In Pontus, commemoration of the holy martyrs who died in the persecution under the Emperor Maximiano. Some were sprayed with molten lead, others tormented with rods between the nails, others more harassed with repeated torments, to deserve all the Lord's Palm and the Crown of martyrdom (s. ex III.).
Saint Lucas, abad (s. X)
In Lucania, Luke, Abbot, who embraced the monastic life, according to the institutions of the Holy Eastern, first in Sicily, his homeland, but due to the invasion of the Saracens moved to other places, dying in the monastery of the Saints Elias and Anastasius of Carbone, who he himself had founded.