Santoral: which saints are commemorated this Sunday, March 12

Good deeds, deadly sacrifices, and even inexplicable occurrences arising from apparent divinity, are the reasons why different individuals have been beatified and canonized by the Vatican carry with him the name of saint.

Every daymarked on the calendar, commemorates the life and death of those beings, men and women, who have dedicated their lives to the same Catholic Church which has earned them the appointment.

It is the day of the saint Sunday March 12.

He was born in the second half of the 4th century and appears to be in Albano, although documentary evidence cannot be presented with certainty. He was elected pope in the year 401, as the successor of Anastasius I.

He succeeded in having his papal authority recognized in Illyria, a mountainous region located in the northeastern region of the Adriatic which today corresponds to Bosnia and Dalmatia.

He expelled from the Eternal City the persecutors and detractors of Saint John Chrysostom, despite the opposition of the Emperor Arcadius (407). But he could not, despite his efforts and negotiations, prevent the sack of Rome by Alaric on August 24, 410.

At the request of Saint Augustine, he condemned the Pelagian heresy (417).

With regard to the government he should have exercised in Hispania, mention should be made of the letter addressed to Exuperio, bishop of Tolosa, giving him rules for the reconciliation and admission to communion of those who, once baptized, s obstinately abandoned themselves to the pleasures of the flesh. . . Somehow moderates the discipline, in force until then, contemplated in the councils of Elvira and Arles and propitiated by the African churches; these were somewhat rigorous norms -extremely strange for our time-, which refused admission to communion of this type of sinner even at the time of death, although they were easily granted the possibility of penance. He acknowledges in his writings that until then “the law was harsher”, but that he does not want to adopt the same harshness and severity as the heretic Novatian. In any case, he does not boast of innovations, nor does he present himself as the supporter of a lax liberalism; He fully justifies the earlier standards, claiming that this praxis was convenient at the time.

In 416, when he wanted to remind the Spanish bishops of the undisputed authority of the bishop of Rome and the obedience they owed him from Spain, he wrote a letter in which he declared that throughout Italy, France, Hispania, Africa and Sicily only churches by Peter or by his disciples. This letter is used as a very important documentary argument by those who disavow the ancient tradition which supports the preaching of the apostle Santiago in Spain and the well-founded conjecture of the visit of the apostle Paul at this end of the Empire.

He also intervened in the years 404-405 to restore peace between the bishops of Hispania, after the anti-Priscilian Christological resolutions of the Council of Toledo in the year 400; recommends the recognition of the episcopal authority and government of those who have been ordained by the followers of Priscillian but who continue to profess the true faith by accepting the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father and the oneness of the Person in Christ.

He held the See of Peter until his death in 417.

With this character is other saints and martyrs which are also celebrated this Sunday, March 12 as follows:

San Maximiliano de Tebeste

San Elpegio

San Jose Zhang Dapeng

Saint Louis Orione

Saint Paul Aurelian

Chronicler of Saint Theophanes

Beata Angela Salawa

Beata Fina from San Geminiano

Blessed Jerónimo Gherarducci

Beata Justina Francucci Bezzoli

The Catholic and Orthodox Church uses canonization to declare a deceased person a saint who during his life made sacrifices or was linked to a divine event in favor of the church.

This involves including the person’s name in the canon (list of recognized saints) and permission is granted by the Catholic Church to venerate her, acknowledging her power before God.

During Christianity, people were recognized as saints without the need for a formal process; however, this changed in the Middle Ages. In the case of Catholicism, the Church must make an exhaustive inquiry into the life of the person to be sanctified.

For the Catholic Church, there are four ways to achieve this: the way of heroic virtues; the path of martyrdom; that of exceptional causes, confirmed by an ancient cult and written sources; and the offer of life.

Additionally, it is considered whether the person lived the Christian virtues to a heroic degree or suffered martyrdom because of his faith, likewise, It is an essential requirement that you have performed at least two miracles (or one in the case of being a martyr).

Catholicism is one of the most practiced religions in the world. The most recent data from the Vatican – in particular from its Ecclesial Statistical Yearbook – indicate that there are more 1,360 million Catholics in the world.

The American continent is where the most Catholics predominate, with nearly half of those registered by the Vatican, being more than a quarter located in South America.

In recent years, the Vatican has realized that the presence of Catholics has grown considerably on two continents: Asia -especially the Middle East- and Africa.

In contrast, religious rates in Europe declined, while in Oceania they remained stable.