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SAINTS FOR MARCH 06

  SAINTS FOR MARCH 06  Sts. Kyneburga, Kyneswide, & Tibba, 680 A.D. Abbesses whose relics are in St. Peterborough Abbey in England. Kyneburga and Kyneswide were daughters of King Penda of Mercia . The former founded an abbey at Castor, Northamptonshire. She was joined there by Kyneswide. Tibba was probably a relative who entered the same convent.   ST. ROSE OF VITERBO, VIRGIN, FRANCISCAN ST. COLETTE BOYLET, VIRGIN AND FRANCISCAN, FOUNDRESS OF THE POOR CLARES St. Baldred, 8th century. Bishop of Scotland, successor of St. Kentigern in Glasgow. He retired from his see to become a hermit on the Firth of Forth.   St. Bilfrid, 8th century. Benedictine hermit, the silversmith who bound the Lindisfarne Gospels. He was a hermit in Lindisfarne, Ireland, off the coast of Northumbria, in northern England, where he aided Bishop Eaddfrid in preparing the binding of that masterpiece. He used gold, silver, and gems to bind the famous copy of the Gospels of St. Cut...
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SAINTS FOR MARCH 05

 SAINTS FOR MARCH 05  ST.ADRIAN, MARTYR St. Oliva, Roman Catholic Woman Martyr. She was executed in the last year of the reign of Emperor Hadrian. Her relics are venerated at Saint Afra's Church, Brescia. Mar. 5 St. Lucius I, Roman Catholic Priest and elected Pope to succeed Pope St. Cornelius on June 25, 253, and ruled only eighteen months. He was exiled briefly during the persecution of Emperor Gallus, but was allowed to return to Rome. he opposed the rigorism of the Novatians, who refused absolution to Christians who had lapsed during persecutions. St Lucius allowed them to return to the Church after a suitable penance.     ST. JOHN JOSEPH OF THE CROSS, FRANCISCAN St. Piran. Piran was a hermit near Padstow in Cornwall and sometimes called Perran. He is the patron saint of tin mines there and is often erroneously identified with St. Kyran (Kieran) of Saighir.  St. Caron. Titular saint of Tregaron, in Dyfed, Wales, England  St. Carthach, 540 A.D. An I...
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SAINTS FOR MARCH 04

 SAINTS FOR MARCH 04  St. Basil and Companions, Roman Catholic Priests and Martyrs. Martyred bishop, with Agathodorus, Elpidius, Ephraem, lftherius, Eugene, Arcadius, Capito, and Nestor. These prelates served as bishops. Nestor and Arcadius were rnartyred on Cyprus. The others died in the Crimean area and elsewhere in southern Russia. Mar. 4 B. HUMBERT III OF SAVOY Saint Casimir, Roman Catholic Born in 1458, St Casimir was of Lithuanian origin, the son of the King of Poland. He renounced the crown of Hungary at the urging of the Pope, and refused an arranged marriage designed to expand his realms. St Casimir was only 25 when he died, having overcome the seductions of power and luxury.    Mar. 4 St. Owen, Benedictine monk. Once a steward in the household of St. Etheldreda, he entered a Benedictine monastery at Lastingham, England, under St. Chad. He later migrated to Lichfield, following St. Chad.  
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Saint of the Day - Calendar of Saints - Vatican News

  Saint of the Day - Calendar of Saints - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints.html
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St Gildas

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Gospel in Art: Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket?

  Gospel in Art: Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket? https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54236
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Jan 28 Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church

  Jan 28 Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church Gospel in Art: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Doctor https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54227 Reading of the day A reading from the Book ok Samuel 2, 7:4-17 That night the LORD spoke to Nathan and said: "Go, tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: Should you build me a house to dwell in? I have not dwelt in a house from the day on which I led the children of Israel out of Egypt to the present, but I have been going about in a tent under cloth. In all my wanderings everywhere among the children of Israel, did I ever utter a word to any one of the judges whom I charged to tend my people Israel, to ask: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?' "Now then, speak thus to my servant David, 'The LORD of hosts has this to say: It was I who took you from the pasture and from the care of the flock to be commander of my people Israel. I have been with you wherever you went, and I have destroye...
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