The third day of February.

EventsEdit

• 1970: Albino Luciani (later Pope John Paul I} takes possession of the Archdiocese of Venice.

BirthsEdit

DeathsEdit

Feast DaysEdit

• Earliest possible date for Shrove Tuesday (movable feast)
• Saint Blaise, Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
• Aaron the Illustrious, saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church^[1]
• Saint Ansgar, patron saint of Denmark
• Saint Hadelin
• Saint Werburgh
• Balázs-napja
• Saint Berlindis
• Saint Nona and Saint Celsa

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ *Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.