Mar 7, 2010

⛪ March 7


πŸ“° Sts. Perpetua and Felicity of Carthage (North African [from what is now Tunisia] ... wife/mother and maid ... mauled by beasts and martyred by beheading in 203)

πŸ“° St. Ardo of Aniane [baptized Smaragdus] (French, Benedictine  abbot, died in Germany in 843)

πŸ“° St. Deifer of Bodfari (Welsh, abbot, 6th Century)

πŸ“° St. Drausius of Soissons (French, bishop, c. 576)

πŸ“° St. Enodoch (Welsh, c. 520)

πŸ“° St. Esterwine of Wearmouth (British, Benedictine  abbot, died at about age 36 in 688)

πŸ“° St. Eubulus of Caesarea (martyred in Palestine in 308)

πŸ“° Bl. Frowin of Engelberg (Swiss, Benedictine  abbot, d. 1178)

πŸ“° St. Gaudiosus of Brescia (Italian, bishop, c. 445)

πŸ“° Bl. Jermyn Gardiner of Winchester, Bl. John Larke of Chelsea, and Bl. John Ireland of Eltham (English ... secretary to a bishop and two diocesan priests ... martyred [drawn, hanged, and quartered] under Henry VIII in 1544 [beatified 1886, 1886, and 1929, respectively])

πŸ“° Bl. Joseph Olallo ValdΓ©s of Havana [JosΓ©] (Cuban, abandoned at an orphanage, religious brother of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, surgeon, pharmacist, educator of poor children, died at age 69 in 1889 [beatified 2008])

πŸ“° Bl. MarΓ­a Antonia de Paz y Figueroa of Villa SilΓ­pica (Argentinian, virgin, founded Daughters of the Divine Savior, died at about age 68 in 1799 [beatified 2016])

πŸ“° St. Paul of Prusa (Bithynian [from part of what is now Turkey], bishop, d. 840)

πŸ“° St. Paul the Simple (Egyptian, farmer, hermit, c. 340)

πŸ“° Bl. Reinhard of Reinhausen (French, headmaster, abbot in Germany, d. 1170)

πŸ“° St. Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Redi of Arezzo [Teresa Margherita del Sacro Cuore di Gesu] [baptized Anna Maria] (Italian, noblewoman, Discalced Carmelite  nun, died at age 22 in 1770 [beatified 1929, canonized 1934]) [commemorated by some on the 11th, by others on September 1]

πŸ“° St. Theophylact of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], monk, bishop, opposed iconoclastic emperor, imprisoned for 30 years, d. 845)

πŸ“° Bl. Volker of Siegburg (German, Benedictine  monk, missionary, d. 1132)

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