⛪ March 17

📰 St. Patrick [name as pagan: Maewyn Succat] [baptized Patricius] ["Apostle of Ireland"] (probably Scottish, slave shepherd in Ireland, escaped to Scotland, missionary bishop in Ireland for 33 years, died at about age 74 c. 461)

📰 St. Agricola of Chlon (French, bishop for 50 years, died at about age 83 in 580)

📰 Sts. Alexander and Theodore (early martyrs)

📰 St. Ambrose of Alexandria (Egyptian, nobleman, patron of Origen, c. 250)

📰 St. Gertrude of Landen (French, Benedictine  abbess, mystic, died at about age 32 in 659)

📰 St. Guy Mary Conforti of Casalora [Guido Maria] (Italian, archbishop of Parma, founded Pious Society of St. Francis Xavier for Foreign Missions, died at age 66 in 1931 [beatified 1996, canonized 2011])

📰 Bl. John Nepomucene Zegrí y Moreno of Granada [Juan Nepomuceno] (Spanish, parish priest, chaplain to Queen Isabel II, founded Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, died at age 73 in 1905 [beatified 2003])

📰 St. John Sarkander of Skotschau [Jan] (Silesian [from part of what is now Czech Republic], widower, Jesuit  parish priest, refused to reveal secrets of the confessional, tortured [racked, branded] and martryed [covered with tar and burned] at age 43 in 1620 [beatified 1859, canonized 1995])

📰 St. Joseph of Arimathea (Israelite, member of Jewish Sanhedrin, sympathetic to Jesus, allowed his tomb to be used for Christ's burial, 1st Century)

📰 Bl. Marcel Callo of Rennes (French, single layman, martyred [malnutrition/dysentery] in Mauthausen camp in Germany at age 24 in 1945 [beatified 1987])

📰 Bl. Mary Barbara of the Blessed Trinity Maix of Vienna [Maria Bárbara da Santíssima Trindade] [baptized Barbara] (Austrian, political exile to Brazil, founded Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died at age 54 in 1873 [beatified 2010])

📰 St. Paul of Cyprus (Cypriot, monk, tortured and martyred [hanged upside down over slow fire] by iconoclasts in 777)

📰 St. Peter Liu Wen-yuan of Gui-zhu (Chinese, layman, martyred at age 74 by strangling in 1834 [beatified 1900, canonized 2000])

Holy Martyrs of Seramis (d. 390)

📰 Bl. Stephen of Palestrina [Etienne / Stefano] (French, Cistercian  monk, cardinal archbishop in Italy, d. 1144)

📰 St. Thomasello of Etruria (Italian, Dominican  friar, d. 1270)