Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Blase, bishop and martyr
- Ansgar, bishop
- Laurence of Spoleto, bishop
- Ia, virgin
- Laurence of Canterbury, bishop
- Werburga, virgin
- Margaret of England, virgin
- Aelred of Rievaulx, abbot
St. Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167 A.D.) was born in Hexham, England. He became master of the household in the court of King David of Scotland where he was loved for his piety, gentleness and spirituality.
Desiring a more austere life, he left Scotland at 24 years of age to become a Cistercian monk at Rievaulx, Yorkshire, England. He became abbot, first at a new Cistercian monastery in Revesby in 1142 A.D., and then at Rievaulx five years later in 1147 A.D. Considered a saint in his own lifetime, he wrote on the spiritual life in "On Spiritual Friendship".
Saints in the Byzantine Calendar [February 3]
- St. Simeon the Venerable-Senex and Theofer
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