Editor's Note: Need a little extra devotional prayer to add to your daily Rosary? Need some impetus to prepare for this coming Lent this month? What follows is a litany to all of the saints whose feast days are celebrated in the month of February. Many of these saints are little-known and often are not, for that reason, invoked in our prayers.

If you add this short litany to your daily Rosary, you will have the benefit of invoking the prayers of some of these lesser-known saints for February.

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.

Lord, have mercy, Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.

God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.

God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.

God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.

Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.

Jesus Christ, King of glory, to whom His Blessed Mother presented you in the temple, have mercy on us

Holy Mary, Mother of God * pray for us.

Our Lady most pure, *

Our Lady of Lourdes, *

St. Peter, First Sovereign Pontiff who first ruled in Antioch, *

St. Ignatius, Holy Bishop and Martyr *

St. Blaise, Holy Bishop and Martyr*

St. Andrew Corsini, Holy Bishop and Confessor *

St. Agatha, Holy Virgin and Martyr *

All ye Holy Martyrs of Japan *

St. Titus, Holy Bishop and Confessor *

St. Dorothy, Holy Virgin and Martyr *

St. Romuald, Holy Abbot *

St. John of Matha, Holy Confessor *

St. Cyril of Alexandria, Holy Bishop and Doctor of the Church *

St. Apollonia, Holy Virgin and Martyr *

St. Scholastica, Holy Virgin and Religious Foundress *

All ye Seven Holy Servite Founders *

St. Catherine of Ricci, Holy Virgin *

St. Valentine, Holy Confessor and Martyr*

Sts. Faustinus and Jovita, Holy Martyrs*

St. Onesimus, Holy Bishop and Martyr *

St. Simeon, Holy Bishop and Martyr *

St. Gabinus, Holy Confessor and Martyr *

St. Eucherius, Holy Martyr *

St. Severian, Holy Bishop *

St. Peter Damian, Holy Bishop and Doctor of the Church *

St. Matthias, Holy Apostle *

St. Ethelbert, Holy King of Britannia*

St. Tarasius, Holy Bishop *

St. Melchtilde, Holy Virgin *

St. Gabriel of Sorrowful Virgin, Holy Confessor *

St. Romanus, Holy Abbot *

All you holy saints and angels, pray for us.