This is the Saint of the Day list of Saints and Blesseds whose feast day falls on February 16 every year.
Saint Julian of Egypt
Saint Faustinus of Brescia
Blessed Bernard Scammacca
Saint Juliana of Nicomedia
Saint Maruta
Blessed Nicola Paglia
Blessed Joseph Allamano
Saint Tetradius of Bourges
Blessed Filippa Mareri
Saint Simeon of Metz
St. Simeon of Metz has an additional Memorial on 25th October (translation of relics). He was a fourth century bishop of Metz, France. He was buried in the church San Clément aux Arènes and his relics were transferred to the Benedictine of St. Peter in Senones 770AD.
Saint Pamphilus of Cilicia
St. Pamphilus of Cilicia was also known as Pamphilus of Caesarea. He was a bishop. In the mines of Cilicia, he was imprisoned and sentenced for two years. He died as a martyr in 309 in Cilicia, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey).
Saint Faustinus of Brescia
St. Faustinus of Brescia was a bishop of Brescia, Italy in 360AD. Legend says that he was a relative of St. Faustinus and St. Jovita, and we know that he researched and wrote their Acts. He died in 381.
Saint John III of Constantinople
St. John III of Constantinople was a patriarch of Constantinople in 565. He established regulations that became the code of laws known as the “Nomocanon”. He died in 577.
Blessed Archinrico of Montmajour
Blessed Archinrico of Montmajour was a monk and an abbot in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. He is mentioned in some documents, but little about the man is known.
Saint Aganus of Airola
St. Aganus of Airola was born in 1050. He was a Benedictine monk and an abbot of St. Gabriel’s monastery at Airola, Campania, Italy. In 1100 he died of natural causes.
Saint Onesimus of Ephesus
St. Onesimus of Ephesus was a priest and a bishop of Ephesus. He supported St. Ignatius of Antioch.
Saint Juliana of Campania
St. Juliana of Campania was a martyr.
Martyrs of Cilicia
The martyrs of Cilicia were a group of Christians who ministered to other Christians who were condemned to work the mines of Cilicia in the persecutions of Maximus. They died in 309 in Cilicia, Asia Minor (in modern Turkey).
These were arrested, tortured and martryed by order of the governor Firmilian.
- Samuel
- Jeremy
- Isaias
- Elias
- Daniel
This group also includes the three known have been sentenced to the mines
- Paul of Jamnia
- Pamphilus
- Valens of Jerusalem
These other ones were exposed as Christians as a result of these murders
- Theodule the Servant
- Seleucius of Caesarea
- Porphyrius of Caesarea
- Julian of Cappadocia
Other Saints Celebrated Today
- Saint Paul Shipwrecked
- Pamphilus of Caesarea
- Mariano Arciero
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