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.
Choose a date
Daily observance
St. Scholastica, Virgin
Tuesday, February 10, 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. Scholastica, Virgin
Rank: Double
Color: white
Quote for the day
Pope Gregory XVI
“The Church is the pillar and foundation of truth, all of which truth is taught by the Holy Spirit.”
Quo Graviora, n. 10
Roman Martyrology
Roman Martyrology - February 10
AN Mount Cassino, St. Scholastica, a virgin, whose soul her brother, St. Benedict, the abbot, saw leaving her body in the form of a dove, and ascending to heaven. — At Rome, the holy martyrs Zoticus, Irenaeus, Hyacinthus, and Amantius. — In the same place, on the Lavican road, ten holy soldiers, martyrs. — Also at Rome, on the Appian way, St. Soteres, virgin and martyr, who was descended of a noble race, as St. Ambrose testifies, but for the love of Christ set at naught the consular and other dignities of her family. On her refusal to sacrifice to the gods, she was for a long time cruelly buffeted. After she had overcome various other torments, she was struck with the sword, and joyfully went to her heavenly spouse. — In Campania, St. Silvanus, bishop and confessor. — At Maleval, in the diocese of Siena, St. William, a hermit. — In the diocese of Roueu, St. Austreberta, a virgin renowned for miracles.
Highlighted saint
St. Scholastica
Virgin sister of St. Benedict and lover of holy conversation.
St. Scholastica, virgin and sister of St. Benedict, is honored for a life consecrated to God in monastic holiness.
The tradition of her final meeting with St. Benedict teaches the power of holy charity, prayer, and longing for heavenly things.
Virtue to practice
Consecrated charity and prayer.
Error to resist
The idle speech that spends companionship without lifting the soul toward God.
For the pilgrim in exile
Ask St. Scholastica to purify friendship and speech. Conversation becomes holy when charity turns it toward Heaven.
Imitate today
- Let conversation serve God.
- Pray with loving confidence.
- Prefer heavenly friendship to idle talk.
Sources
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, February 10.
- Roman Martyrology, 1916 Baltimore edition, February 10.
From Matins
Holy conversation and the soul flying home.
Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Scholastica, Virgin
Pope St. Gregory the Great, Dialogues, Book II
“They passed the whole day together, praising God, and speaking one to the other of spiritual things.”
Doctrine taught
- The Breviary receives St. Gregory's account of St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God from childhood.
- Her yearly meeting with Benedict becomes a lesson in spiritual friendship: they spend the day in praise of God and holy conversation on eternal life.
- After prayer obtains the storm that keeps Benedict with her, he later sees her soul fly heavenward in the form of a dove, and brother and sister are not divided even in burial.
For the pilgrim in exile
Let conversation become preparation for heaven. St. Scholastica teaches that holy affection is not chatter, but charity ordered toward God, eternity, and final union in Christ.
Sources
- The Roman Breviary, translated by John, Marquess of Bute, 1908, vol. I, Winter, Second Nocturn for St. Scholastica, lessons iv-vi.
- Bute 1908 is used here as an accessible pre-Pius X Breviary witness and is cited distinctly from the 1936-1937 Benziger / Burns Oates edition.
Breviary Witness
Holy charity in monastic life.
Matins - St. Scholastica, Virgin
Breviary witness
- The Breviary honors St. Scholastica as virgin and sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God in monastic holiness.
- Her witness teaches prayerful charity, holy conversation, and longing for the things of Heaven.
For the pilgrim in exile
Let friendship lift the soul. St. Scholastica teaches that conversation is best when it leaves the heart nearer to God.
Sources
- Roman Breviary, Matins lessons for February 10, St. Scholastica.
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, February 10.
Gospel of the day
The kingdom of heaven is like to ten virgins.
St. Scholastica, Virgin - Matthew 25:1-13
“They that were ready, went in with him to the marriage.”
What Our Lord teaches
- The consecrated virgin keeps the lamp ready for Christ the Bridegroom.
- St. Scholastica teaches that charity, prayer, and holy conversation prepare the soul for Heaven.
Virtue to practice
Let prayer and friendship keep the lamp burning.
Error to resist
The idle conversation that spends affection without preparing the soul for God.
For the pilgrim in exile
Ask St. Scholastica for speech that leaves the heart warmer toward Heaven. Love is strongest when it prays.
Sources
- Matthew 25:1-13, Douay-Rheims.
- Traditional Roman Gospel from the common of virgins.
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, pardon my faults, raise my heart from discouragement, and teach me to begin again under Thy mercy.
Thought for the pilgrim
The pilgrim is formed by returning to God again and again.
Practice
The day should become obedience.
Make a brief examination of conscience before sleep and end the day with an act of contrition.
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.