| 1257-02-02 St. Bonaventure was elected Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor. Today is the 750th anniversary of this event. |
| 1597-02-05 St. Peter Baptist and his companions were marytred for the faith, in Nagasaki, Japan. |
| 1239-02-08 Lady Jacoba di Settesoli, the Secular Franciscan who was at St. Francis' deathbed in 1226, died. Her remains rest in the Basilica of St. Francis, in Assisi. |
| 2001-02-10 Fr. Joachim Giermek, a friar of the Province of St. Anthony of Padua (USA), was elected 118th Minister General of the Conventual Franciscan Order. He is the fourth friar from an American province in the history of the Order to be elected Minister General. |
| 1288-02-15 Cardinal Jerome Masci of Ascoli, was elected as the first Franciscan Pope and took the name of Nicholas IV. Previously, he succeeded St. Bonaventure as Minister General of the Franciscan Order and served as Provincial Minister of the Holy Land. |
| 1229-02-21 Pope Gregory IX issued the bull Sicut phialae aureae which directed all the bishops of the Church to support the cult of the newly canonized St. Francis of Assisi. |
| 1297-02-22 St. Margaret of Cortona, a Third Order Franciscan penitent, died. |
| 1442-02-22 William of Casale, Minister General of the Franciscan Order and sympathizer of the Conventual cause, died in Florence. |
| 1998-02-22 The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco, CA. (USA) was formally reopened by the Conventual friars of the California Province. |
| 1209-02-24 St. Francis was inspired by the Gospel story on how Jesus sent out his disciples, in the Portiuncula, near Assisi. |
| 1229-02-25 Pope Gregory IX confirmed the first official biography of St. Francis of Assisi, the Vita prima, as written by Friar Thomas of Celano. |
| 1872-02-27 The first Ordinary Provincial Chapter of the Province of the Immaculate Conception, the first Conventual Franciscan Province in the United States, was convened at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary friary, in Syracuse, NY (USA). |
| 1872-02-29 Fr. Bonaventure Keller was elected the first Minister Provincial of Immaculate Conception Province, the first Conventual Franciscan Province in the United States. |
| 1369-02-11 Franciscan friars Thomas of Foligno, Anthony of Saxony, Gregory of Tragnio, Ladislas of Hungary and Nicholas of Hungary were martyred for the faith by order of King Bazarath, in Widdin, Yugoslavia. |
| 1847-02-07 The Immaculate Conception of Mary was approved as the principle patron of the United States of America as requested by the Catholic bishops at the Council of Baltimore (1846). |
| 1611-02-01 Observant Franciscan bishop Bl. Conor O'Devany, the bishop of Down and Connor, was marytred for the faith in Dublin, Ireland. |
| 1612-02-04 Capuchin Franciscan friar and renown preacher St. Joseph of Leonessa, died in Leonessa, Italy. |
| 1905-02-12 The Conventual Franciscan Province of St. Paul the Apostle was established on the Island of Malta. |
| 1943-02-27 Bl. Maria Caridad Brader, the founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, died in Pasto, Columbia. |