March 10, 2010

⛪ March 10



πŸ“° St. Anastasia the Patrician of Constantinople (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], virgin, d. 507)

πŸ“° Bl. Andrew of Strumi [Andrea] (Italian, Vallumbrosan  abbot, d. 1097)

πŸ“° Holy Martyrs of Armenia (forty soldiers, martyred by freezing in 320)

πŸ“° St. Attalas of Bobbio (French, abbot in Italy, miracle-worker, d. 627)

πŸ“° Sts. Caius and Alexander of Apamea (Phrygian [from part of what is now Turkey], opposed Montanist heresy, martyred c. 172)

πŸ“° Sts. Codratus, Dionysius, Cyprian, Anectus, Paul, and Crescens of Corinth (Greek, martyred by beheading c. 258)

πŸ“° St. Droctoveus of Paris (French, abbot, c. 580)

πŸ“° Bl. Elijah of Succor Nieves of Guanajuato [Elias del Socorro] [baptized Mateo (Matthew)] (Mexican, peasant, Augustinian  friar, parish priest, martyred [shot] by soldiers at age 45 in 1928 [beatified 1997])

πŸ“° St. Emilian of Lagny (Irish, Benedictine  abbot in France, d. 675)

πŸ“° St. Failbhe the Little of Iona (Scottish, abbot, d. 754)

πŸ“° St. Himelin of Vissenaeken (Irish or Scottish, priest, died in Belgium c. 750)

πŸ“° Bl. John Joseph Lataste of Cadillac [Jean-Joseph] [baptized Alcide-Vital] (French, Dominican  priest, founded Dominican Sisters of Bethany, died at age 36 in 1869 [beatified 2012])

πŸ“° Bl. John of the Holy Trinity of Florence [Giovanni] (Italian, penitent ex-practitioner of black magic, Vallumbrosan  monk, hermit, c. 1380)

πŸ“° St. John Ogilvie of Banffshire (Scottish, nobleman, convert from Calvinism, Jesuit  priest, tortured for months under James I and martyred by hanging at about age 35 in 1615 [beatified 1929, canonized 1976]) [Feast on Scottish "particular calendar"]

πŸ“° St. Kessog of Lennox (Irish, prince, missionary bishop in Scotland, martyred c. 560)

πŸ“° St. Macarius of Jerusalem (Palestinian, bishop, opposed Arian heresy, c. 335)

πŸ“° St. Mary Eugene of Jesus Milleret de Brou of Metz [Marie-Eugenie de Jesus] [baptized Eugenie] (French, convert from atheism, founded and led Congregation of the Assumption [Assumptionists], died at about age 80 in 1898 [beatified 1975, canonized 2007])

πŸ“° Holy Martyrs of Persia (forty-two early martyrs)

πŸ“° Bl. Peter of Jeremiah of Palermo [Pietro de Geremia] (Sicilian, Dominican  prior, miracle-worker, died at about age 71 in 1452 [beatified 1784])

πŸ“° Pope St. Simplicius of Tivoli (Italian, elected to papacy in 468, opposed Monophysite heresy, survived end of Roman Empire, reigned until death in 483)

πŸ“° St. Victor (early martyr)

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