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A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

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February 21 · Virgin

St. Vitalina

St. Vitalina

A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Traditional feast

February 21
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Keep their day. Remember them on February 21 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Commemorated as Patron at Antonne, between Riome and Gannat, in Auvergne. Commemorated also at Metz. Nothing is known concerning her except a strange story of her having spoken to S. Martin out of her tomb, and told him she was still mourning for having washed her head on a Friday,—a story related by Gregory of Tours. De gloria Confessorum, c. v.

Feast days

Feast: February 21

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Vitalina's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on February 21
Sts. Maurice, Photinus, Theodore and Companions

Sts. Maurice

February 21 · Martyrs
Z

St. Zacharias of…

February 21 · Patriarch
P

Bl. Pepin of Landen

February 21 · Confessor
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.