Ante Diem IV Id. Feb. AUC 2758/AM 7514

Today is the Feast of St Scholastica, V. Her biography from Catholic Online.

From the East:

Haralambos the Holy Martyr

Anastasios, Patriarch of Jerusalem

Tradition in Action's Saint of the Day:

St Scholastica

From Ted Hewitt's Group:

St Scholastica

The Martyrology:

Today's

Tomorrow's, for those who recite Prime

On this day:

AD 60, St Paul shipwrecked at Malta.

AD 1098, Militiæ Christi of the First Crusade defeat the ifidil jihadist Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch.

AD 1567, Henry Stuart, First Duke of Albany, Earl of Ross, Lord Darnley, Consort of Her Majesty, Mary I & II, Queen of Enland, Scotland and Ireland, murdered. (R+I+P)

AD 1609, John Suckling, Kt, Royalist, Cavalier and poet, born.

AD 1635, Académie Française is founded in Paris by Armand, Cardinal de Richelieu)

AD 1716, His Majesty, James III & VIII, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, returns to France after failing to regain his Legitimate Throne in the Rising of 1715.

AD 1728, His Imperaial Majesty, Pyotr III Fyodorovitch, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias, born. (21 February, O.S.)

AD 1829, His Holiness, Leo XII, dies. (R+I+P)

AD 1880, His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII publishes his Encyclical Arcanum (On Christian Marriage).

AD 1939, His Holiness, Pius XI, dies. (+R+I+P)