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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 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. Feastday March 4 B. HUMBERT III OF SAVOY Saint Casimir, Roman Catholi c 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...

  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 esta...

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Envy and vainglory explained by Pope Francis - ZENIT - English : General Audience of the Pope, February 28, 2024 on envy and vainglory

  SAINTS FOR MARCH 01  St. Hermes and Adrian, Roman Catholic Martyrs with twenty four companions, probably the Massylitan martyrs praised by St. Augustine. They suffered in Massylis, or Marula, in Numidia. Feastday Mar 1 St. Monan was a monk at St. Andrew's under St. Adrian. Monan worked as a missionary in the Firth of Forth area in Scotland until he and a large number of Christians were murdered by marauding Danes  ST. FELIX III, POPE , Born of a Roman senatorial family and said to have been an ancestor of Saint Gregory the Great. Nothing certain is known of Felix, till he succeeded St. Simplicitus in the Chair of Peter (483). At that time the Church was still in the midst of her long conflict .Mar. 1 St. David. According to tradition, St. David was the son of King Sant of South Wales and St. Non. He was ordained a priest and later studied under St. Paulinus. Later, he was involved in missionary work and founded a number of monasteries. The monastery he founded at Mene...

 Saints for February 29 St. Aubin, Roman Catholic, Monk and Bishop. Albinus, also known as Aubin, entered the monastery of Tincillac when a youth, was elected Abbot when he was thirty-five, and was named Bishop of Angers in 529. He was known for his generosity to the sick and the indigent, widows, and orphans, for his work in ransoming slaves, and for his holiness and the many miracles he is reputed to have performed both during his lifetime and after his death. His feast day is Feb 29-Mar. 1

Call in India to Remove Christian Symbols from Faith-Run Catholic Schools - ZENIT - English : Moreover, Hindu groups promote the image of Christianity as a diabolical force that intends to destroy the native Hindu culture with the conversion of Hindus to Christianity.