FEBURARY

1.
Vigil of the Purification of Our Lady, at Pang.—(Locrnius on the Calendar.)

2.
Candlemass or Purification of Our Lady. This feast was instituted in the year 544, under the Emperor Justinian, on occasion of the plague which ravaged Constantinople, where there often died ten thousand persons in a single day. In the year 701, Pope Sergius added to this feast the ceremony of solemnly blessing candles.—(Baroninu Annals ann. 544.) 

3.
Our Lady of Seidaneida, near Damascus. From this picture, which was painted on wood, inexhaustible oil exuded, whatever quantity was taken. The virtue of this oil was so great, that it healed even the infidels themselves.—(Arnold, Abbot of Lubec cited by Baronius, ann. 870, and by Spon danus, ann. 1203.)  

4.
Our Lady of the Pillar, at Saragossa, in Spain, so called, because, according to the tradition, the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. James the Great, upon a jasper pillar, in the year 36, and ordered him to build a church, which the Spaniards maintained to have been the first dedicated to Our Lady.  —(Beutereus, lib. 1. c. et 3.) 

5.
Dedication of the first temple of Our Lady, by St. Peter, at Tripoli, now Tortosa.— Canisius, lib. v. de Beata Virgine, ch. 32.) 

6.
Our Lady of Louvain, in Belgium. This Virgin, in high veneration in that country, began to work miracles in the year 1444.—(Balingham on the Calendar.) 

7.
Our Lady of Grace, in the Abbey of Saint-Sauve, at Montrenil snr Mer.—(Chronicon S. Salvi.) 

8.
Our Lady of the Lily, near Melun. This abbey of Cistercian nuns, was founded by Queen Blanche, mother of the King St. Louis.—(Gallia Christiana, t. iv.) 

9.
Octave of the Purifaction of Oar Lady, instituted in the Cathedral of Saintes, on account, it is said, of the bells having been heard to ring most sweetly of themselves. The sacristans having run to the church, saw several unknown men holding lighted tapers and melodiously chanting hymns in honor of the Blessed Virgin, who is venerated in a chapel of this church under the title of Our Lady of Miracles, and approaching softly, they besought one of the last of that august number to give them his taper, in proof of the miracle. This taper is religiously preserved in that church.— (Saussey, Martyrologium Qallicum, Feb. 9.) 

10.
Our Lady of the Dove, near Bologna, in Italy, built, it is  said, in a place which a dove designated, by flying round and round, for two days, about certain masons who were at work, and to whom it seemed to mark out a certain site.—(Triple Couronne, n. 107.) 

11.
St. Mary of Liques, near Calais. This monastery, of the order of the Premonstratensians, was founded in the year 1131, by Robert, Lord of Liques.—(Gallia Christiana, t. iv.) 

12. Our Lady of Argenteuil, near Paris, built by Clovis I., in the year 101. This priory Preserves a portion of the seamless garment of our Lord.— (Thomas Bosius, lib. ix., de Signis, ecclesiae, o. 9.) 

13.
Our Lady du Four Chaud, at Bourges, so called because, in the year 545, a ~ is said to have shut up his son in a hot oven, because he had received baptism and communicated on Easter Sunday; he was taken out sound and whole, through the protection of Our Lady. A church was built to the Blessed Virgin in memory of this event.—(Annales de France sous Childebert.) 

14.
Oar Lady of Bourbourg, in Flanders. It is asserted that this image having been struck by a wicked man, in the year 1383, the sacrilegious wretch fell dead on the spot.—(Bzovius, ex Archivis ecclesiae Burburg.) 

15.
Our Lady of Paris, first built by King Childebert, in the year 522; about the year 1257, King St. Louis erected a larger one in the same place, on the foundation which king Philip Angnstus had laid in the year 1191.—(Du Preil, Theatre des; antiquites de Paris, lib. i.) 

16.
Our Lady of the Thorn, near Ghalons, in Champague, s0 named because this image was found. under a white-thorn.—(Triple Courorne, n. 54.) 

17.
Our Lady of Constantinople, formerly the ~, which was converted into a church of the Blessed Virgin by the Emperor Justin the Younger, in the year 506.

18
Our Lady of Laon, erected, into a cathedral and founded by St. Remigius, Archbishop of Rheims, about the year 500, where he consecrated, as its first bishop, St. Genebaud, his nephew. Miracles are wrought there; and, among others, we read that in the year 1395, there, was seen on the steeple, the picture of a crucifix, the wounds of which bled.--(Thomas Walsingham, Hist. of England, under King Richard I.) 

19.
Our Lady of Good Tidings, near Rouen, where a great number of people are seen, particularly on Saturdays.—(Triple Couronne, n. 52.) 

20.
Our Lady of Boulogne-sur-Mer. A statue is seen here which is said to have been brought in a ship by the ministry of angels, in the year 633. Louis XI. gave to this church a heart of solid gold, weighing two thousand crowns, in the year 1479, and he decreed thet all the kings of France, his successor, should make the game present on their attaining the crown.—(Triple Couronne, n. 53.) 

21.
Our Lady of Bon Port, at Dol, affording succor to mariners.—(Triple Couronne, n. 51.) 

22.
Our Lady of Succor, at Rennes, in Brittany.— (Idem.) 

23.
Our Lady of Roches, near Salamanca, in. Spain. The image venerated here was found miraculously, in the year 434, by Simon Vela, who then erected a church.— Balingham on the Calendar.)

24.
On this day, in the year 591, St. Gregory the Great having had the picture of Our Lady, which was painted by St. Luke, carried in procession, the plague ceased at Rome.—(Idem.) 

25
Our Lady of Victory, at Constantinople. The city was delivered from the siege of the Saracens by the aid of the Blessed Virgin, in the year 621 — Fereolus Locrins.) 

26.
Our Lady des Champs, at Paris, anciently dedicated to Ceres. St. Denis, after exorcising the evil sprits, consecrated it to Our Lady. A picture of the Blessed Virgin is still to be seen here, on a small stone, a foot square, which was made after that which St. Denis brought to France. This house, which is a Benedictine priory, was afterwards occupied by the Carmelites, who were received there in the year 1604, and founded by Catharine, Princess of Longueville. It was the first occupied by those nuns in France; Mother Anne of Jesus, the associate of St. Teresa, was its first superior.—(Du Breuil, Theatre des Antiquites, lib. ii.) 

27.
Our Lady of Light, near Lisbon, in Portugal. A light was seen for a long time shining in this place, without any one being able to discover the cause of that phenomenon, when Our Lady, appearing to a prisoner, promised him liberty on condition of his erecting a church in her honour in this place, which she had chosen.—(Antonius Vasconcellius in Descriptione regni Lusitaniae, c. 7, 5.)

28.
Institution of the monastery of the Annunciation, at Bethune, in Artois, by Francis de Melun and Louisa de Foix, his wife, in the year 1519.— (Fereolus Locrius.)