⛪ March 8

📰 St. John of God Ciudad of Montemoro Novo [(Portuguese:) João de Deus {Cidade} ... (Spanish:) Juan de Dios] (Portuguese, shepherd, mercenary soldier, suffered mental illness, founded Order of Charity and the Order of Hospitallers in Spain to care for the sick/poor/homeless, died on 55th birthday in 1550 [beatified 1630, canonized 1690])

📰 Sts. Arianus of Thebes, Theoticus, and three companions (Egyptian ... governor and others ... martyred by drowning c. 311)

📰 St. Beoadh of Ardcarne (Irish, bishop, c. 525)

📰 Sts. Cyril, Rogatus, Felix, Herenia, Felicitas, Urbanus, Sylvanus, and Mamilius (African ... bishop and disciples ... early martyrs)

📰 St. Duthac of Ross [also spelled Dubthac] (Irish, bishop in Scotland, d. 1065 [canonized 1898])

📰 St. Faustinus of the Incarnation Míguez González of Xamirás [Faustino de la Incarnacion] [baptized Manuel (Emmanuel)] (Spanish, Piarist  priest, teacher, medical researcher, founded a religious institute for women, died at age 93 in 1926 [beatified 1998, canonized 2017])

📰 St. Felix of Burgundy ["Apostle to the East Angles"] (French, missionary in England, bishop of Dunwich, d. 646)

📰 St. Humphrey of Pruem (French, Benedictine  monk, bishop of Therouanne, d. 871)

📰 St. John Helgi Ogmundarson of Holar [Jon] ["Apostle to Iceland"] (Icelandic, bishop, d. 1121 [canonized 1201])

📰 St. Julian of Agali (Spanish, abbot, archbishop of Toledo, died at about age 48 in 690)

📰 Sts. Philemon and Apollonius of Antinoe (Egyptian ... entertainer and deacon ... martyred by drowning c. 305)

📰 St. Pontius of Carthage (Carthaginian [from what is now Tunisia], deacon, c. 262)

📰 St. Provinus of Gaul (French, bishop of Como in Italy, c. 420)

📰 St. Quintilis of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], bishop, early martyr)

📰 St. Rhian (Welsh?, abbot)

📰 St. Senan of Corca Bhaisin (Irish, bishop, died at about age 55 c. 560) [On Irish "particular calendar"]

📰 St. Stephen of Obazine [Etienne] (French, Cistercian  priest, abbot, died at about age 68 in 1154)

📰 St. Veremund of Hirache (Spanish, Benedictine  abbot, d. 1092)

📰 Bl. Vincent Kadlubek of Karnow [Wincenty] (Polish, bishop of Krakow, Cistercian  monk, died 

at about age 62 in 1223 [beatified 1764])

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