SAINTS FOR MARCH 07

SAINTS FOR MARCH 07 

St. Deifer, 6th century. Welsh abbot and founder of Bodfare in Clwyd, Wales.  

St. Enodoch, 520 A.D. Welsh saint of the line of the chieftain Brychan of Brecknock, also called Wenedoc.  

St.  Esterwine, 668 A.D. Benedictine abbot, a relative of St. Benedict Biscop. A noble from Northumbria, England, he was abbot of Wearmouth Abbey during a period of Benedict’s absence.  

Bl. John Ireland, 1544 A.D. English martyr and chaplain to St. Thomas More. He became a pastor at Eltham, Kent, prior to his arrest for resisting the supremacy of King Henry VIII of England over the Church of England. Executed at Tyburn, he died with Blesseds Jermyn Gardiner and John Larke. 

STS. PERPETUA AND FELICITAS, MARTYRS

ST. TERESA MARGARET REDI, VIRGIN AND CARMELITE