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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.

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

St. Cyprian of Carthage

“He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”

On the Unity of the Church, Chapter 6

The pilgrim's devotional rhythm

Keeping the month and the weekday in prayer

This chosen devotional rhythm does not change the feast, rank, or obligations shown above. It gives the passing days a steady intention, helping the pilgrim honor God, intercede for souls, and carry one Catholic practice into the day. It is a household aid to devotion, not another law of the Roman Calendar.

February intention

The Holy Family

At Nazareth, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph show how hidden duties become holy when they are performed in obedience and charity. This month asks the pilgrim to carry the order of Nazareth into his own home.

Intention

For Catholic homes, the preservation of marriage and family life, and families divided by sin, error, absence, or sorrow.

A faithful act

Perform your ordinary household duties promptly and without complaint for the good of those entrusted to you.

Prayer

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, order our homes in truth, purity, obedience, and peace.

Tuesday remembrance

The Holy Angels

God has appointed His angels as ministers of His providence. Honor them by greater purity, recollection, and prompt obedience to grace, never forgetting that their whole service leads the soul to God.

Intention

For protection against temptation, guidance in duty, and the defense of children, travelers, and souls in spiritual danger.

A faithful act

Before a difficult duty or conversation, ask your Guardian Angel to help you act without sin and for God's glory.

Prayer

Holy Angel, my guardian, keep me from sin and direct me in the faithful accomplishment of today's duties.

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.

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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 St. 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 St. 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, printed pp. 759-760.
  • 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.
  • Catholic friendship should make prayer easier, not weaker. Affection is safest when it helps the soul look toward God.

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.

Prayer

The day should become prayer.

O Lord, give me hatred of error without hatred of souls. Let charity make me clearer, humbler, more patient, and more willing to defend what saves.

Thought for the pilgrim

There is no holiness where heresy is treated as harmless.

Practice

The day should become obedience.

Name the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth.

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 ordinarily come from eligible Catholic sources issued no later than December 31, 1954: Scripture, Fathers, Doctors, saints, Roman Pontiffs, traditional catechisms, approved devotional works, and received liturgical texts. Legitimate additions promulgated under Pope Pius XII may be retained when identified precisely; this does not adopt the reformed Holy Week or later rubrical changes.

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.
  • St. Andrew Daily Missal, Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., 1953 edition; proper Mass or devotion named in this entry.
  • Luke 2:51-52, Douay-Rheims.
  • Psalm 90:11 and Matthew 18:10, Douay-Rheims.
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