March 13, 2010

⛪ March 13



πŸ“° Bl. Agnello of Pisa (Italian, Franciscan  friar in France, provincial in England, died at Oxford at about age 40 in 1236 [beatified 1892]) [commemorated by some on May 7]

πŸ“° St. Ansovinus of Camerino (Italian, hermit, bishop, emperor's confessor, miracle-worker, d. 840)

πŸ“° St. Christina of Persia (virgin, martyred by scourging)

πŸ“° Bl. Dulce de Souza Brito Lopes Pontes of Salvador da Bahia [baptized Maria Rita] (Brazilian, religious of Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, founded St. Francis Union of Workers  to aid the poor, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, died at age 77 in 1992 [beatified 2011] [incorruptible])

πŸ“° St. Euphrasia of Constantinople (Roman born in Asia Minor [now called Turkey], noblewoman, nun in Egypt, died at about age 40 in 420)

πŸ“° St. Gerald of Mayo (British, abbot in Ireland, d. 712)

πŸ“° Bl. Heldrad of Provence (French, Benedictine  abbot, d. 842 [beatified 1904])

πŸ“° Sts. Macedonius, Patricia, Modesta, and companions of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor, husband/wife/daughter and others, martyred c. 304)

πŸ“° St. Mochoemoc of Leamokevoge (Irish, abbot, c. 656)

πŸ“° St. Nicephorus of Constantinople (from Asia Minor, patriarch [archbishop], opposed iconoclasts, died at about age 69 in 828)

πŸ“° Bl. Peter of Cava [Pietro] (Italian, abbot, d. 1208 [beatified 1928])

πŸ“° St. Ramirus and companions, of Leon (Spanish, abbey prior and all his monks, martyred by Visigoths [Arian heretics] while chanting Nicene Creed in 6th or 7th Century)

πŸ“° Sts. Roderic and Solomon of Cabra (Spanish ... priest and fellow prisoner ... martyred [beheaded] by Moslems in 857)

πŸ“° St. Sabinus (Egyptian, nobleman, martyred by drowning in 287)

πŸ“° Sts. Theusitas, Horres, Theodora, Nymphora, Mark, and Arabia of Nicaea (Bithynian [from part of what is now Turkey] ... father, son, and others ... early martyrs)

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