^The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar"). The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
^The name Azariah means “whom God helps.” The holy prophet lived during King Asa’s reign (2 Chron. 15:1).[5]
^Born in North Africa, he earned the title of martyr on account of the sufferings he endured under Decius during a visit to Rome. Freed, he returned to Carthage, where he was ordained deacon and later a church was dedicated to him.
^"In Africa, St. Celerinus, deacon, who was kept nineteen days in prison loaded with fetters, and confessed Christ gloriously in the midst of afflictions. By overcoming the enemy with invincible constancy, he showed to others the road to victory."[23]
^Sts Laurentinus and Ignatius were uncles and St Celerina was an aunt of the deacon St Celerinus.
^"Also, the holy martyrs, Laurentinus, and Ignatius, his uncles, and Celerina, his grandmother, who had been previously crowned with martyrdom. They are highly praised in an epistle of St. Cyprian."[23]
^Born in Ireland and the sister of St Ercus, she went to Cornwall with Sts Fingar, Piala and others and was martyred at the mouth of the River Hayle. The town of St Ives is called after her.
^A Syrian driven by the Monophysite persecution to Italy, there he was ordained and founded a monastery near Spoleto. He was bishop for twenty years, but then founded the monastery of Farfa in the Sabine hills near Rome. St Laurence was renowned as a peacemaker. His title derives from his gift of healing blindness, both spiritual and physical.
^Born in Gascony in France, he followed St Remaclus to Solignac, Maastricht and Stavelot and founded the monastery of Chelles, also in Belgium. He lived as a hermit near Dinant on the Meuse.
^Daughter of St Ermenhild and King Wulfhere of Mercia. She became a nun at Ely under St Etheldred (Audrey) and later founded three convents. She reposed at Trentham but her body was transferred to Chester, of which she is the patroness saint.
^"Werburg was the widow of Ceolred, the powerful King of Mercia, who died in the year 716. She afterwards retired to a monastery, of which she became the Abbess. Her life was prolonged many years, which she spent with such holiness, that the chronicler says it may well be believed that she went to live with Christ for ever. The day of her death is not known, but in a modern martyrology the 3rd of February is noted as her festival."[29]
^Born near Amiens in France, as a child he became a monk at Old Corbie in Picardy. He then went to New Corbie in Saxony, from where he was taken by King Harold of Denmark to enlighten the heathen Danes. He toiled there as Archbishop of Hamburg for thirteen years and his mission extended to Sweden, Norway and the north of Germany.
^"The same day, St. Anscharius, bishop of Bremen, who converted the Swedes and the Danes to the faith of Christ."[23]
^He became Bishop in Jutland in Denmark and met the needs of the growing number of Orthodox there but was martyred by pagans.
^His sacred relics are reverently kept at the Holy Holy Monastery of Rousanou (dedicated to the Transfiguration), at Meteora.
^This Greek bishop emigrated with his entire eparchy to Crimea to escape the relentless persecution of the Ottoman empire and was glorified a saint by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).[42] (In 1778, on the orders of Catherine II, 18,000 Crimean Greeks, tired of living under Ottoman rule, successfully petitioned the empress for permission to move to Russia, and were allowed to settle on the shores of the Sea of Azov, where they founded the city of Mariupol (Marianopolis).[43][44])
^ abcdefThe Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 36–37.
^Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. Celerinus, D.C., Celerina, Ignatius, and Laurentinus, MM. (3rd Cent.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Second: February. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 46-47.
^Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Laurence the Illuminator, B. (About A.D. 576.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Second: February. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. p. 49.
^Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Werburga, V. Abss. (Beginning of 8th Century)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Second: February. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 52-56.
^Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. Anskar, B.; Ap. of Sweden. (A.D. 865.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Second: February. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 56-72.
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