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The calendar also commemorates the exploits of certain people, whose life was given to God. Because of their actions of solidarity with other peoples and the courage to recognize their Christianity in times of religious persecution, the Vatican commemorates them with name days.
Every day you can find a feast dedicated to a saint, even lists of saints can be read throughout the year. The aim is to recognize people who have accomplished inexplicable feats, due to their special relationship with Catholicism.
In March, there are a large number of saints to celebrate, each one marked in their own way the context in which they lived. Before the days pass, we tell you who is being congratulated this month
March 1: None david of wales. In the 7th century, the bishop founded a monastery from which monks left to evangelize Ireland.
San Albino de Anjou.
Saint Leo of Vasconia.
Saint Leon Luke.
San Siviardo.
March 2: Saint Absalom.
San Simplicio. The pope fought those who denied the humanity of Christ.
St. Basilio. He is remembered for setting the guidelines for monastic life, centered on community life and liturgical prayer.
San Jovino.
Saint Lucas Casali of Nicosia.
Saint Agnes of Prague.
3rd of March: San Anselmo de Nonantola.
San Emeterio de Calahorra. In the year 298, the man was beheaded for professing Christianity while performing his military service for the Roman Empire.
San Asterio
Saint Cuneguna.
Santa Catalina Drexel.
San Marino of Caesarea: in life he was a Roman soldier of the 3rd century. He died under the emperor’s torture Galen.
March 4: Saint Appian.
San Casimir. He was a prince who in life fought for expander the catholic religion in Poland there Lithuania.
San Basin.
Saint Peter, Abbot.
March 5: Saint Adrian. He became a Christian martyr after dying in the religious persecution of constantinopleat 306.
Saint-Conon.
Saint Lucius.
Saint Virgil of Arles.
San Juan Jose de la Cruz Gaetano.
March 6: Santa Coleta Boylet.
San Evagrio.
Saint Victorinus of Nicomedia.
saint julian. He is remembered for his contributions to the theology and the philosophybranch of knowledge he studied at the University of Palencia.
March 7: Saint Ponce of Carthage.
Saint Eubulus.
Saint Paul of Prusa.
Saint Paul the Simple.
Santas Congratulations there Perpetuates. Both women were tortured by the emperor Septimius Severus in the third century.
8 March: San Dutaco.
Saint Etienne d’Obazina.
Saint John of God. Religious of Portuguese origin founded the Order of Hospitallers, in the 16th century. She devoted her life to performing acts of charity and caring for the sick.
Saint Faustino Miguez.
Saint Ponce of Carthage.
March 9: Saint Catherine of Bologna. In life, she was an artist and is considered the patron saint of liberal arts.
San Bruno.
Saint Paciano.
San Vital of Castronovo.
Saint Francisca Romana.
March 10: San Attalus.
Saint Macarius of Jerusalem.
Saint Marie Eugenie of Jesus Milleret de Brou. The Frenchwoman born in 1817, founded the Religious of Asuncionto help disadvantaged people.
March 11: San Maximiliano de Tebeste.
Saint Constantine of Scotland.
Saint Benedict of Milan.
San Vidiciano.
Saint Pionio.
12th of March: St. Innocent I. This pope drove out the enemies of Saint John Chrysostom. In the year 410, he resisted the invasion of Rome by the troops of Alaric.
Saint Paul Aurelian.
Saint Maximilian of Thebeste. In the 3rd century, he went down in history as a black man to be a soldier in Algeria for his religious convictions, the consequences of which ended in his death. execution.
Chronicler of Saint Theophanes.
13 of March: San Ansovino.
santa christina
Saint Sabinus of Egypt.
San Ramiro.
March 14: Saint Matilda.
Saint Lazarus of Milan.
Saint Paulina of Fulda.
Saint Leobino of Chartres.
San Raimundo de Fitero. The monk took part in the defense of Spain during the Muslim invasion.
March 15: Saint Clement Maria Hofbauer.
Saint Zachary, dad.
Saint Leocricie.
San Menigno.
San Sisebuto.
March 16: San Juan Sordi.
San Julian de Anazarbo.
Holy Patriarch Abraham. His story is told in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. It is also known as Prophet of Old Testament.
Saint Eusebia
the 17th of March: Saint Patrick. It’s him patron saint of ireland and in life he was a bishop preached the gospel after being liberated by Britain, in V.
Saint Joseph of Arimathea.
San Agricola.
Saint Paul of Cyprus.
Santa Gertrudis of Nivelles.
March 18: Saint Alexander of Jerusalem.
saint edward. In the tenth century it was king of England and died assassinated by servitude of his mother-in-law.
Saint Frigidian.
San Salvador de Horta Grionesos.
San Anselmo of Mantua.
March 19: Saint John of Parrano.
Saint Joseph. The father of Jesus is also called: family patron and the universal Church. He has believers in China, Canada, Korea, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, Croatia, Peru and Vietnam.
March 20th: San Martin de Dumio. He was a bishop theologian there writer Hispanic Catholic clergyman. He is better known as “the apostle of the Suevi”.
San Archipo.
Saint Urbibius of Metz.
Saint Mary Josephine of the Heart of Jesus.
March 21st: San Agustin Zhao Rong.
Saint Nicholas of Flue. The Swiss Christian was born in 1417 and lived as a peasant. During his life he was a soldier, politician, ascetic and hermit.
San Endeo.
Saint John of Valence.
Saint James the Confessor.
March 22: Saint Basil of Ancyra.
St. Paul of Narbonne.
Santa Lea of Rome.
San Nicolas Owen.
March 23: San Jose Oriole. They say he had powers prophetic there miraculousgifts he showed from his birth in 1650. He is currently venerated in Barcelonadespite his Catalan origins.
Saint Toribio of Mogrovejo. In life, he organized the Catholic Church in the viceroyalty of Peru.
San Oton de Ariano.
Saint Rebecca of the Himalayas.
March 24: Saint Severus of Catania.
Saint Catherine of Sweden.
San Secundulo from Mauritania.
March 25: San Mona.
San Doula.
San Dimas, the good thief.
incarnation of the Lord. It is an important Christian celebration, as it refers to the moment when the angel Gabrielle visited the Blessed Virgin Mary to tell her that she would be the mother of the saviour.
Saint Quirinus of Rome.
Saint Lucia Philippine.
Saint Matrona of Thessaloniki.
March 26: Saint Braulius of Zaragoza. He was one of the most famous bishops for his work as a Spanish writer.
San Bercario.
Saint Peter, bishop.
Saint Maxim.
San Castulo.
March 27: Saint Alexander of Drizipara.
Saint Rupert of Worms.
Saint John of Lycopolis.
San Zanitas.
San Marolas.
March 28: Saint Cyril of Heliopolis.
San Castor de Tarso.
Saint Sixtus III. was bishop of Rome from 432 until his death in 440. His tenure is remembered for completing the construction of this city.
Saint Proterius of Alexandria.
San Esteban Harding.
March 29: San Arquinimo.
San Guillermo Tempier.
Saint Mark of Arethusa.
San Eustasio de Luxeüil.
March 30: San Clino.
San Juan Climaco.
Saint Jules Alvarez.
Saint Zosimus of Syracuse
March, 31st: St. Amos. He went down in history as one of soft The Hebrew members of the so-called “minor prophets”.
San Renato de Merida.
Saint Benjamin of Argol.
San Guido, Abad.
Depend on Vatican perform a full investigation of a person’s life, in order to determine whether he fulfills the necessary conditions for canonization. There are four ways to do this: via the heroic virtues; that of the martyrdom; that of the exceptional causes, established by ancient worship and written sources; And the one of offering of life.
An important element for the canonization is that one person has done at least two wonders (o A in case of being martyr). Over the centuries, as this April list shows, many people have achieved this appointment, some of them by enduring torture awful in religious persecutions.
He Catholicism It is one of the most practiced religions in the world. The most recent data from the Vatican – in particular from its Ecclesial Statistical Yearbook– emphasize that there are more one thousand 360 million Catholics around the world.
The continent American is where else Catholics winwith nearly half of those recorded by the Vaticanwith more than a quarter located in South America.
In recent years, the Vatican realized that the presence of Catholics has increased considerably on two continents: Asia -especially the Middle East– y Africa.
On the other hand, the religious Europe they went to bajawhile in Oceania They stayed stable.
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