Sacred Calendar
The Roman year ordered for memory, penance, feasts, saints, and the daily pilgrimage of the faithful.
Calendar standard
Pre-1955 Roman usage
The calendar follows the universal Roman year under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X, with the Roman Martyrology preserved as a distinct daily witness.
The day is presented for prayer, recollection, study, and perseverance in the City.
Daily observance
Today in the City of God
The Church keeps this day in holy time. The Pilgrim's Companion gathers the feast, daily quote, Martyrology, meditation, prayer, and related chapters into one daily path through the City.
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Daily observance
St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop and Confessor
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Season: Septuagesima
The day is set within the Roman year so its feast, Martyrology, daily quote, prayer, and reading path may be received together without blurring their proper sources.
Today's pilgrimage
St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop and Confessor
Rank: Double
Color: white
Quote for the day
Pope St. Gregory the Great
“There are three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection.”
Roman Martyrology
Roman Martyrology - February 4
At Florence, St. Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesoli, whose birthday is the 6th of January. — At Rome, St. Eutychius, who endured a glorious martrydom, and was buried in the cemetery of Callistus. Pope St. Damasus wrote an epitaph in verse for his tomb. — At Fossombrone, the holy martyrs Aquilinus, Geminus, Gelasius, Magnus and Donatus. — At Thmuis, in Egypt, in the persecution of Diocletian, the passion of blessed Philseas, bishop of that city, and of Philoromus, military tribune, who rejected the exhortations of their relations and friends to save themselves, offered themselves to death, and so merited immortal palms from God. With them was crowned with martyrdom a numberless multitude of the faithful of the same place, who followed the example of their pastor. — The same day, St. Rembert, bishop of Bremen. — At Troyes, St. Aventin, confessor. — At Pelusium, in Egypt, St. Isidore, a monk renowned for merit and learning. — The same day, St. Gilbert, confessor, — In the town of Ama trice, in the diocese of Kieti, the decease of St. Joseph of Leonissa, of the Order of Minorite Capuchins, who suffered many afflictions from the Mahometans. As he was celebrated for his apostolic labors and miracles, he was placed on the list of holy confessors by the Sovereign Pontiff Benedict XIV.
Highlighted saint
St. Andrew Corsini
Carmelite bishop formed by conversion and penance.
St. Andrew Corsini, a Carmelite, was converted from youthful disorder and became a bishop marked by penance, prayer, and pastoral zeal.
He served the Church at Fiesole with reforming courage and was remembered as a peacemaker, showing how grace can turn a restless life into fatherly strength.
Virtue to practice
Conversion made fruitful in pastoral zeal.
Error to resist
The discouragement that treats past disorder as stronger than grace.
For the pilgrim in exile
Ask St. Andrew Corsini for the courage to be converted thoroughly. Grace does not merely cover disorder; it can make the soul useful to the Church.
Imitate today
- Do not despair of a disordered beginning.
- Let penance become pastoral charity.
- Make peace without weakening truth.
Sources
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, February 4.
- Roman Martyrology, 1916 Baltimore edition, February 4.
Breviary Witness
The converted Carmelite made bishop.
Matins - St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop and Confessor
Breviary witness
- The Breviary honors St. Andrew Corsini as a Carmelite and bishop, remembered for conversion, penance, and pastoral zeal.
- His witness teaches that grace can reform a disordered youth into a shepherd of souls and a maker of peace.
For the pilgrim in exile
Do not let the past claim final authority. Conversion becomes credible when penance bears fruit in charity and duty.
Sources
- Roman Breviary, Matins lessons for February 4, St. Andrew Corsini.
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, February 4.
Gospel of the day
Feed my sheep.
St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop and Confessor - John 21:15-17
“Feed my sheep.”
What Our Lord teaches
- The bishop's love for Christ must become pastoral care for souls.
- St. Andrew Corsini teaches that conversion is made fruitful when penance becomes fatherly charity and peace-making.
Virtue to practice
Let conversion bear fruit in duty and peace.
Error to resist
The discouragement that believes grace cannot make a disordered past useful to God.
For the pilgrim in exile
Ask St. Andrew Corsini to make repentance practical. The Lord can turn a converted life into shelter for others.
Sources
- John 21:15-17, Douay-Rheims.
- Traditional Roman Gospel from the common of bishops.
Meditation
Today in the City of God
The Church does not leave the faithful to pass through time as though days were neutral. This observance teaches the soul to receive the day under grace, to remember what God has done, and to let sacred time order study, prayer, and perseverance.
Related paths
Walk the day through the City.
Today's chapters
Read with the feast.
Prayer
The day should become prayer.
O Lord, place this day beneath Thy Providence. Keep my mind in truth, my heart in charity, and my work in obedience until evening.
Thought for the pilgrim
The faithful soul receives the day before it spends it.
Practice
The day should become obedience.
Make one deliberate act of recollection before beginning ordinary labor.
Source notes
Universal Roman Calendar under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X
Fasting and abstinence according to the laws observed in 1952
Daily quotations and pilgrimage excerpts should come from Scripture, Fathers, Doctors, saints, traditional popes before 1958, traditional catechisms, approved devotional works, or received liturgical texts.
The Roman Martyrology, Baltimore, 1916, published by John Murphy Company; the local 1916 text is displayed and traceable to its source lines.
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, Liturgical Calendar, pp. xvii–xxviii.