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St. Cyril
Asked to bring the Gospel to people whose language had never been written down, he built them an alphabet and translated the Scriptures and the liturgy into it, then defended in Rome their right to pray in their own tongue against churchmen who insisted on Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
Feast February 14 · Thessalonica, and Great Moravia
St. Josephine Bakhita
She kept the door of the convent at Schio, laying her hands on the heads of the schoolchildren who passed, and traveled Italy telling people about the freedom she had been given.
Feast February 8 · Darfur, Sudan, and Schio, Italy
St. Methodius
He promised his dying brother he would not abandon the Slavs for the quiet of a monastery, and he kept it for the sixteen years he outlived him — through a trial, imprisonment and repeated accusations — translating the Scriptures into their language and training the disciples who carried the work on after him.
Feast February 14 · Thessalonica, and Great Moravia and Pannonia
St. Peter Damian
He left a teaching career to live as a hermit, then wrote a treatise naming the vices of the clergy of his day and made enemies with it. Sent to Milan as the pope’s legate, he faced down a rioting crowd in the cathedral and got both sides to accept his ruling.
Feast February 21 · Ravenna, and the hermitage of Fonte Avellana
St. Polycarp
Asked to save his life by cursing Christ, he answered that he had served him eighty-six years and been done no harm, and asked how he could curse the King who saved him. He said it out loud, in a stadium, to a proconsul offering him a way out.
Feast February 23 · Smyrna