Solemnities, Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials, and Traditional Dates of Commemoration
- Leander of Seville, bishop
- Gabriel Possenti, confessor
- Alnoth
- John of Gorze, abbot
- Besas, Cronion and Julian, martyrs
- Thalelaeus the Hermit
- Baldomerus
- Anne Line, martyr
John of Gorze (d. ca. 974 A.D.) was born at Vandieres, Lorraine, was educated at Metz, and inherited a wealthy estate at the death of his father. He was interested in religious life and made a pilgrimage to Rome. In 933 A.D., he was about to go on a second piligrimage to Rome with Einhold of Toul, an archdeacon, when the bishop of Metz sent them to a run-down abbey of Gorze. They revitalized this abbey with John as prior. He was then sent as head of a delegration to a Caliph of Cordova by Emperor Otto I. Upon his return to Gorze in 960 A.D., he was elected abbot. The reforms he applied to the Gorze abbey were later adopted by other Benedictine monasteries in the area. [1]
More on Saints for February 27 in the Catholic Church
Saints in the Byzantine Calendar [February 27]
- Procopius, venerable confessor and monk
St. Procopius left the vanity of the world and was tonsured in a monastery. At that time the heresy of iconaclasm appeared and threatened the orthodoxy of the Christian faith. Procopius fought against this heresy and the policies of Emperor Leo the Isaurian that supported the heresy. His battle against the heresy led to his arrest, torture and imprisonment in a dank dungeon. Together with St. Basil, they languished in this environment until the death of Emperor Leo the Isaurian. St. Procopius spent the remainder of his life in peace and died around the year 750 A.D. [2]
References: Books & Websites
- [1] Dictionary of Saints, John J. Delaney
- [2] Venerable Prokopius the Confessor of Decapolis, Oca.org
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