Mar 1, 2010

⛪ March 1


πŸ“° Sts. Adrian, Hermes, and 22 companions (African, martyred c. 290)

πŸ“° St. Albinus of Vannes (French, abbot, bishop of Angers, died at about age 70 in 549)

πŸ“° St. Antonina of Nicaea (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], virgin, martyred by drowning c. 306)

πŸ“° Bl. Bonavita of Lugo (Italian, Franciscan  tertiary, d. 1375)

πŸ“° Bl. Christopher of Milan [Cristoforo] (Italian, Dominican  prior, prophet, d. 1484 [beatified 1875])

πŸ“° St. David of Cardigan (Welsh, prince, missionary priest, archbishop of Caerleon, founder of monasteries, died at about age 58 c. 601) [On English, Irish, and Welsh "particular calendars"]

πŸ“° St. Eudocia of Heliopolis (Samaritan, repentant courtesan, martyred by beheading probably in 2nd Century)

πŸ“° Pope St. Felix II (Roman, widower, great-grandfather of Pope St. Gregory the Great, elected to papacy in 483, opposed Monophysite heresy, reigned until death in 492)

πŸ“° Bl. Jane Mary Bonomo of Asiago [Giovanna Maria] [baptized Maria] (Italian, Benedictine   abbess, mystic, died at about age 63 in 1670 [beatified 1783])

πŸ“° St. Leo Luke of Corleone [Leoluca] (Italian, abbot of Basilian  monastery where he lived for eighty years, died at about age 100 c. 915)

πŸ“° St. Leo of Carentan (French, bishop of Rouen, missionary, martyred [beheaded] by Moslem pirates c. 900)

πŸ“° St. Roger le Fort of Ternes (French, nobleman, bishop of Limoges, bishop of Bourges, d. 1367)

πŸ“° St. Rosendo of Galicia (Spanish, nobleman, Benedictine  abbot, bishop of Mondonedo, bishop of Compostela, died at about age 69 in 977 [canonized 1195])

πŸ“° St. Simplicius of Bourges (French, bishop, d. 477)

πŸ“° St. Swithbert of Friesland ["Apostle of the Frisians"] (British, Benedictine  monk, missionary on Dutch islands, bishop, died in Germany at about age 65 in 713)

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