March 09, 2010

⛪ March 9


πŸ“° St. Frances Bussa of Rome [Francesca] (Roman, aristocrat, married forty years [from age 12], mother of three, widow, foundress of oblates known as Collatines, visionary, died at about age 56 in 1440 [canonized 1608])

πŸ“° St. Anthony of Froidemont [Antoine] (French, Benedictine  hermit, 10th Century)

πŸ“° St. Bosa of York (British, Benedictine  monk, bishop, d. 686)

πŸ“° St. Catherine de' Vigri of Bologna [Caterina] (Italian, Franciscan  tertiary, Poor Clare  abbess, artist, prophetess, mystic, visionary, died at age 49 in 1463 [beatified 1703, canonized 1712] [incorruptible]) [commemorated by some on May 9]

πŸ“° Sts. Cyrion and Candidus (Armenian, martyred in 320)

πŸ“° St. Dominic Savio of Riva [Domenico] (Italian, peasant boy, student of St. John Bosco, died in 1857 at age 15 [beatified 1950, canonized 1954, the youngest canonized non-martyr]) [commemorated by some on May 6]

πŸ“° St. Gregory of Nyssa (Cappadocian [from part of what is now Turkey], brother of St. Basil the Great, hermit, metropolitan (archbishop) of Caesarea, mystic, battled Arianism, Father of the Church, died between age 60 and 70 c. 400)

πŸ“° St. Pacian of Barcelona (Spanish, bishop, c. 390)

πŸ“° St. Vitalis of Calabria (Italian, hermit, founder of monasteries, d. 990)

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