Virgen de la Concepción, San Juan de los Lagos (San Juan de los Lagos , Mexico) , 1224 - November 30, February 2, December 8
Fray Miguel de Bolonia, of the Spanish Netherlands, was one of the first Franciscans to enter Mexico in 1524. A saintly missionary who learned the native languages and stood up for natives when Spanish rulers threatened them, he traveled through Mexi...
Purification of the Virgin - February 2
The Feast of the Presentation is among the most ancient feasts of the Church. There are sermons on the Feast by the bishops Methodius of Patara († 312), Cyril of Jerusalem († 360), Gregory the Theologian († 389), Amphilochius of Iconium († 39...
Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso de la Purificación - Our Lady of Good Success (Quito, Ecuador) , 1594 - February 2
Our Lady of Good Success appeared to Spanish-born Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres at her Conceptionist Royal Convent in Quito, Ecuador. She requested that a statue be made in her likeness and warned of diminishing faith and vocations in the 20th centu...
Purification of the Virgin , 701 - February 2
This feast commemorates events described in Luke 2:22-35: Mary visited the temple in accordance with Jewish law (Leviticus 12:2-8), which held that a woman was not allowed in the temple for 40 days after bearing a son, and then must bring two animals...
Nostra Signora della Rovere (Our Lady of the Oak), San Bartolomeo al Mare, Imperia, Liguria, Italy , 1671 - April 3, February 2
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Oak (rovere) occupies the remains of an ancient oak grove sacred to Diana. The church was dedicated to the Annunciation on July 27, 1505, replacing an earlier church. Its wooden statue of the Madonna and Child, said t...
Nuestra Senora de Coromoto, Portuguesa, Venezuela - September 11, February 2, September 8
The first apparition of the Virgin Mary was in the forest where the Cospes had fled, on September 8, 1652, when the Virgin appeared to the Cacique (ruler) of the Cospes Coromoto and his wife, saying in his own language: "Go to the white house and ask...
Santa María de Santa Anita, Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico , 1542 - February 2
Sometime before 1542, when the village of Atlixtac in west central Mexico became the pueblo of Santa Anita, a sick Franciscan friar went there. He sought medical help from a native convert, a healer named Justina, but soon died. The friar's belonging...
Madonna di Rosa / Our Lady of the Rose, San Vito al Tagliamento, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy , 1655 - February 2, March 31
On February 2, 1655, the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, Giacomo Giacomuzzi di Rosa and his large family was in church for religious services. Mariute, a daughter of eight and a half years, tayed at home with her aunts, suffering ...