⛪ March 4

📰 Casimir of Krakow [Kazimierz] (Polish, prince of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania, dedicated life to chastity and prayer, died at age 25 in 1484 [canonized 1521])

📰 St. Adrian of May (British, missionary bishop, martyred by pagan Danes c. 875)

📰 Bl. Alexander Blake (English, layman, martyred under Elizabeth I in 1590 [beatified 1987])

📰 St. Basinus of Lorraine (French, Benedictine  abbot, bishop of Trier)

📰 Bl. Christopher Bales of Coniscliffe [or Bayles, alias Evers] (English, priest, tortured and martyred at about age 26 under Elizabeth I in 1590)

📰 St. Gaius of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], military officer, martyred by drowning c. 254)

📰 Bl. Humbert III of Savoy (French, count, widower, Cistercian  monk, died at about age 52 in 1189 [beatified 1838])

📰 St. John Anthony Farina of Gambellara [Giovanni Antonio] (Italian, bishop of Treviso, bishop of Vicenza, founder of Sisters Teachers of St. Dorothy, ordained Pope St. Pius X, died at age 85 in 1888 [beatified 2001, canonized 2014])

📰 Bl. Ladislaus Mackowiak of Sytki [Wladyslaw], Bl. Michael Bohatkiewicz of Krykaly [Mieczyslaw], and Bl. Stanislaus Pyrtek of Bystra Podhalanska [Stanislaw] (Polish, diocesan priests, martyred by Nazis [shot] at Borek [Poland] at ages 32/38/29 in 1942 [beatified 1999])

📰 St. Leonard of Avranches (French, bishop, c. 614)

📰 Bl. (Mother) Saint Louis de Lamoignon of Paris [baptized/confirmed Louise-Elisabeth] (French, mother of five, widow [lost husband to revolutionaries' guillotine on Easter], founded Sisters of Charity of St. Louis, died at age 61 in 1825 [beatified 2012])

📰 Pope St. Lucius I of Rome (Italian, elected pope in 233, reigned until death in 254)

📰 Bl. Nicholas Horner of Grantley (English, layman, martyred under Elizabeth I in 1590 [beatified 1987])

📰 Bl. Placide Viel of Quettehou [baptized and confirmed Eulalie-Victoire-Jacqueline] (French, farmer's daughter, member of Sisters of the Christian Schools, Mother General for 30 years, died at age 61 in 1877 [beatified 1951])

📰 Bl. Romeo of Limoges (Italian, Carmelite  brother in France, d. 1380 [beatified 1842])

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