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St. Aurea Feast date: Mar 11 St. Aurea was born around the year 1042 in the village of Villavelayo, Spain. As a youth, Aurea studied the Scriptures and the lives of the early martyrs of the Church. Her favorite saints to meditate upon and imitate were Agatha, Eulalia and Cecilia. As a young woman, Aurea … Read moreSt. Aureaon March 11, 2025 at 12:23 am
St. John Ogilvie Feast date: Mar 10 March 10 is the liturgical memorial of Saint John Ogilvie, a 16th- and 17th-century Scotsman who converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, served as a Jesuit priest, and died as a martyr at the hands of state officials. St. John was executed for treason, refusing to accept King James … Read moreSt. John Ogilvieon March 10, 2025 at 1:23 am
St. Frances of Rome Feast date: Mar 09 St. Frances was born into a noble Roman family in the year 1384. From an early age, Frances felt drawn to the religious life, but at the age of thirteen her parents forced her into marriage. As Frances became acquainted with her in-laws she found that the … Read moreSt. Frances of Romeon March 9, 2025 at 1:23 am
St. John of God, Confessor Feast date: Mar 08 The Catholic Church celebrates the extraordinary life of St. John of God on March 8. The saint lived through decades of sin and suffering before a profound conversion that led him to embrace poverty, humility and charity. John was born in Portugal during the year 1495 … Read moreSt. John of God, Confessoron March 8, 2025 at 12:23 am
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity and their Companions Feast date: Mar 07 Saints Perpetua and Felicity were martyrs who died for the faith around the year 203. St. Perpetua was a young, well-educated, noblewoman and mother living in the city of Carthage in North Africa. Her mother was a Christian and her father was a pagan. … Read moreSts. Perpetua and Felicity and their Companionson March 7, 2025 at 1:26 am
St. Colette Feast date: Mar 06 St. Colette was the founder of the Colettine Poor Clares (Clarisses) Colette was born January 13, 1381 as the daughter of a carpenter named DeBoilet at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France. Orphaned at seventeen, she distributed her inheritance to the poor. She became a Franciscan tertiary, and lived at Corby … Read moreSt. Coletteon March 6, 2025 at 1:25 am
St. John Joseph of the Cross Feast date: Mar 05 Self-denial is never an end in itself but is only a help toward greater charity—as the life of Saint John Joseph shows. John Joseph was very ascetic even as a young man. He devoted himself even at his youngest years to a life of poverty … Read moreSt. John Joseph of the Crosson March 5, 2025 at 12:24 am
St. Casimir of Poland Feast date: Mar 04 On March 4, the Catholic Church honors Saint Casimir Jagiellon, a prince whose life of service to God has made him a patron saint of Poland, Lithuania, and young people. In 1984, Pope John Paul II addressed Lithuanian pilgrims commemorating the 500th anniversary of the prince’s death. … Read moreSt. Casimir of Polandon March 4, 2025 at 12:23 am
St. Katharine Drexel Feast date: Mar 03 On March 3, the universal Church celebrates the feast of St. Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia heiress who abandoned her family’s fortune to found an order of sisters dedicated to serving the impoverished African American and American Indian populations of the United States. Katharine was born November 26, 1858 … Read moreSt. Katharine Drexelon March 3, 2025 at 1:23 am
Feast date: Mar 02 Charles was a son of Canute IV of Denmark and Adela of Flanders. When he was only five years old, his father was assassinated in St. Alban´s Church, Odence. He was taken by his mother to the court of Robert, his maternal grandfather and Count of Flanders as a suitable place … Read moreBlessed Charles the Goodon March 2, 2025 at 12:23 am