February 18
in the Month of the Passion of Our Lord
Saint Bernadette (1879).
Marie Bernadette Soubirous was a little girl who lived in southern France, in the town of Lourdes. When she was fourteen years old, Our Lady appeared to her eighteen times, in the year 1858. Marie Bernadette later became a Sister of Charity at Nevers. She died when she was thirty-five years old. Her name is known and loved and reverenced everywhere in the Catholic world.
Saint Simeon (112).
He succeeded the Apostle Saint James the Less as Bishop of Jerusalem. All were astonished at his fortitude and constancy when he was crucified at the age of one hundred and twenty during the persecution of Trajan.