Ante Diem III Kal. Feb. AM 7514/AUC 2758

Today is the Feast of St Martina, VM. Her biography from The Catholic Encyclopædia.

From the East:

Synaxis of The Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, & John Chrysostom

Hippolytos, Pope of Rome

Tradition in Action's Saint of the Day:

Bl. Sebastian Valfré

From Ted Hewitt's Group:

St Bathhild, Queen of France

The Martyrology:

Today's

Tomorrow's, for those who recite Prime

On this day:

AD 1647, Scots heretics agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400, leading to:

AD 1649, His Majesty, Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, judicially murdered at Whitehall. His Majesty King Charles II ascends the Throne.

AD 1730, Pyotr II, Alekseyevitch, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias, 1727-30, dies at 14. (R+I+P)

AD 1853, «Emperor» Napoleon III marries Eugénie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman.

AD 1879, Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon,duc de Magenta, Marshal of France, resigns as President of the IIIrd Republic. A Monarchist, he served as Chief of State of France,1873-1875 and President of France, !875-1879. He was the last hope for the Restoration!

AD 1894, His Majesty, Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria, 1918-1943, born.

AD 1933, Hitler forms government with von Papen.

AD 1972, Bloody Sunday British soldiers open fire on Catholics in Derry City, 13 die. (R+I+P)