⛪ March 16

📰 St. Abban of Kill-Abban (Irish, abbot, 5th Century)

📰 St. Abraham Kidunaia of Edessa (Syrian, hermit, missionary priest, died at about age 70 c. 366)

📰 St. Agapitus of Ravenna (Italian, bishop, 4th Century)

📰 St. Benedicta of Assisi [Benedetta] (Italian, Poor Clare  abbess, d. 1260)

📰 St. Dentlin of Mons (French, member of a family of saints, died at age 7 in 7th Century)

📰 St. Eusebia of Hamay (French, Benedictine  abbess, member of another family of saints, died at about age 40 c. 680)

📰 St. Finnian Lobhar of Bregia ["lobhar" means "the leper"] (Irish, abbot, c. 560)

📰 St. Gregory Makar of Pithivier (Armenian, monk, bishop of Nicropolis, hermit, miracle-worker, c. 1000)

📰 St. Heribert of Worms (German, archbishop of Cologne, died at about age 50 in 1021 [canonized 1075])

📰 Sts. Hilary, Tatian, Felix, Largus, and Denis of Aquileia (Italian ... bishop, deacon, and members of their flock ... martyred by beheading c. 284)

📰 Bl. John Amias of Wakefield [alias John Anne] (English, widower, priest, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] under Elizabeth I in 1589 [beatified 1929])

📰 Bl. John Sordi of Cremona [also known as John Cacciafronte] [Giovanni] (Italian, Benedictine  monk, hermit, bishop of Mantua, bishop of Vicenza, martyred at about age 56 in 1181)

📰 St. Joseph Gabriel of the Rosary Brochero of Villa Santa Rosa [José Gabriel del Rosario] (Argentinian, diocesan priest ministering in remote mountainous areas, became a deaf-blind leper, died at age 73 in 1914 [beatified 2013, canonized 2016])

📰 St. Julian of Antioch (Cilician [from part of what is now Turkey], tortured and martyred by drowning in 4th Century)

📰 St. Malcoldia of Asti (Italian, Benedictine  nun, c. 1090)

📰 St. Megingaud of Wurzburg (German, Benedictine  abbot, bishop, d. 794)

📰 St. Papas of Lycaonia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], martyred c. 300)

📰 St. Patrick of Malaga (Spanish, bishop, died in France c. 307)

📰 Bl. Robert Dalby of Hemingborough (English, priest, martyred [hanged] under Elizabeth I in 1589 [beatified 1929])

📰 Bl. Torello of Poppi (Italian, Vallumbrosan oblate for 60 years, c. 1292)

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