⛪ March 25

📰 The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord by the angel Gabriel. (When the date falls within Holy Week or during the Octave of Easter, it is transferred to Monday of the second week of Easter.)

📰 St. Alfwold of Sherborne (English, bishop, c. 1075)

Sts. Barontius of Berry and Desiderius of Pistoia (French and Italian, Benedictine  hermits in Italy, c. 725)

📰 St. Dismas ["The Good Thief"] (Israelite, probably an insurrectionist, crucified beside Jesus, c. 30)

📰 St. Dula of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], soldier's slave, virgin, martyred by stabbing in defending her chastity)

📰 Bl. Hermann of Zähringen (Germany, Benedictine  monk in France, d. 1074)

📰 St. Hermenland of Noyon (French, royal cup-bearer, Benedictine  abbot, c. 720)

📰 Bl. Hilary Januszewski of Krajenki [baptized Pawel (Paul)] (Polish, Carmelite  priest, martyred by Nazis at Dachau [Germany] at age 38 in 1945 [beatified 1999])

📰 St. Humbert of Marolles (Belgian, Benedictine  abbot, c. 680)

📰 St. Isaac (Old Testament patriarch, son of Abraham, father of Jacob and Esau)

📰 Bl. James Bird of Winchester [or Byrd or Beard] (English, martyred [drawn, hanged, quartered] at about age 19 under Elizabeth I in 1593 [beatified 1929])

📰 St. Kennocha of Fife (Scottish, nun, d. 1007)

📰 St. Lucy Filippini of Corneto [Lucia] (Italian, orphan, teacher, co-foundress of the Pious Matrons [Religious Teachers Filippini], died at age 60 in 1732 [beatified 1926, canonized 1930])

📰 St. Marie Alfonsine Danil Ghattas of Jerusalem [baptized Soultaneh Maria (Sultana Mary)] (Palestinian, visionary, co-founded Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem, died at age 83 in 1927 [beatified 2009, canonized 2015])

📰 Bl. Mary Rose Flesch of Schönstatt [Maria Rosa] [baptized Margaretha (Margaret)] (German, orphaned at 16, served the poor and sick, founded and led Franciscan Sisters of St Mary of the Angels, died at age 80 in 1906 [beatified 2008])

📰 St. Pelagius of Laodicea (from Asia Minor, bishop, fought Arian heresy, 4th Century)

📰 St. Quirinus of Rome [also called Cyrinus] (Italian, martyred c. 269)

📰 Bl. Thomas of Costacciaro [Tommaso] (Italian, peasant, Camaldolese  hermit, d. 1337)

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