A physician and brother of St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Caesarius studied in Alexandria with incredible success and became the first man of his age in medicine. He perfected himself in this profession at Constantinople. He was singularly honored by Julian the Apostate, nominated his first physician and excepted in several edicts which that prince published…
St. Victor became a priest but the love of heavenly contemplation being always the prevalent inclination in his soul he preferred close retirement to the mixed life of the care of souls. God glorified him by many miracles. St. Bernard says about him: “Now placed in heaven, he beholds God clearly revealed to him, swallowed…
The young Italian saint, who died at the age of twenty-four, like St. Aloysius Gonzaga, is a model of youth entirely possessed by the grace of God. Born in 1838, in 1856 he joined the Passionists, took his vows, received minor orders and died on February 27, 1862. Only an exact performance of all the…
According to the Roman Martyrology on February 28th, there is a mention for the commemoration of the following Holy Martyrs: "In Alexandria, in the reign of the emperor Valerian, the commemoration of the holy priests, deacons, and other Christians in great number, who encountered death most willingly by nursing the victims of a most deadly pestilence…
