SAINTS FOR MARCH 02

 SAINTS FOR MARCH 02 

The Martyrs of Campania, Christians martyred by the Lombards in Italy. They number several hundred and their suffering was recorded by St. Gregory I the Great. Feastday March2

St. Agnes of Bohemia, Roman Catholic Bohemian princess who opted for a life of charity, mortification of the flesh and piety over a life of luxury and comfort. Mar. 2

Bl. Charles the Good as Charles was praying in the Church of St. Donatian, black marketeers set upon him and killed him. Feastday March 2

St. Chad, 673 A.D. Irish archbishop and brother of St. Cedd, also called Ceadda. He was trained by St. Aidan in Lindisfarne and in England. He also spent time with St. Egbert in Ireland. Made the archbishop of York by King Oswy, Chad was disciplined by Theodore, the newly arrived archbishop of Canterbury, in 669. Chad accepted Theodore’s charges of impropriety with such humility and grace that Theodore regularized his consecration and ap-pointed him the bishop of Mercia. He established a see at Lichfield. His relics are en-shrined in Birmingham. In litur-gical art he is depicted as a bishop, holding a church.  

St. Cynibild, 7th century. Evangelist to the Anglo-Saxons and the brother of Sts. Chad and Cedd.  

St. Fergna, 637 A.D. An abbot of lona, Scotland the successor of St. Columba and a relative of the saint. He is called “the White.”  

St. Gilstlianm 5th or 6th century.  The uncle of St. David of Wales and a monk at Menevia Abbey called St. David’s.  

St Angela of The Cross, Virgin, was born in Seville in 1846. She chose religious life after seeing a vision, in which she saw an empty cross – her own – next to the Cross of Christ. In 1875 she founded the Sisters of the Company of the Cross, which is devoted especially to caring for the sick.  Mar. 2