Here is a list of all the Saints of the Church who are commemorated today
Here is a list of all the Saints of the Church who are commemorated today
Commemorated on 10 March
Christian Byzantine noble.Lady-in-waiting to the Empress Theodora in Constantinople.To escape the unwanted attentions of the Emperor Justinian, she fled the court to a convent in Alexandria.On the death of Theodora, Justinian lauched a search for Anastasia.To escape, she assumed a male identity and costume, and lived her remaining 28 years as a hermit in the desert of Scete.The story is believed by many modern scholars to be a pious legend.
Died: c. 507 of natural causes
(also known as Andrew the Ligurian)
Commemorated on 10 March
Benedictine.Disciple and chief supporter of Saint Arialdo of Milan in the campaign against simony in Milan.Vallombrosan monk. Abbot of San Fedele at Strumi on the Arno. Peacemaker between Florence and Arezzo.Biographer of Saint John Gualbert and Saint Arialdo.
Born: at Parma, Italy Died: 1097 of natural causes
(also known as Attala)
Commemorated on 10 March
Monk.Helped Columbanus build the abbey in Bobbio, Italy. Abbot in 615.During Attalas s abbacy most of the monks stood out against the severity of the Columbanian Rule.His monks included Saint Valery and Saint Blitmund.
Born: in Burgundy, France Died: 627 of natural causes; relics at Bobbio, Italy
Commemorated on 10 March
During the persecution of Emperor Valerian he was arrested for his faith, tortured, and martyred with a group of fellow Christians.
Born: Greek Died: thrown to wild animals;when they would not harm him, he was beheaded c. 258 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
Missionary preacher in the area of Apema, Phrygia.Worked with Saint Caius.Fought the Montanist heresy. Martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Born: unknown Died: martyred c. 172 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
I can find no biographical information on this person.
Died: relics honored at Nesle-le-Reposte Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
Missionary preacher in the area of Apema, Phrygia.Worked with Saint Alexander.Fought the Montanist heresy. Martyred in the persecutions of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Born: unknown Died: martyred c. 172 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
During the persecutions of Decius, he and his mother fled to the forests of Greece.His mother died, and the boy grew up as a forest hermit.He later returned to the cities and studied medicine.During the persecution of Emperor Valerian he was arrested for his faith, tortured, and martyred with a group of fellow Christians.
Born: Greek Died: thrown to wild animals;when they would not harm him, he was beheaded c. 258 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
During the persecution of Emperor Valerian he was arrested for his faith, tortured, and martyred with a group of fellow Christians.
Born: Greek Died: thrown to wild animals;when they would not harm him, he was beheaded c. 258 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
During the persecution of Emperor Valerian he was arrested for his faith, tortured, and martyred with a group of fellow Christians.
Born: Greek Died: thrown to wild animals;when they would not harm him, he was beheaded c. 258 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
During the persecution of Emperor Valerian he was arrested for his faith, tortured, and martyred with a group of fellow Christians.
Born: Greek Died: thrown to wild animals;when they would not harm him, he was beheaded c. 258 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
(also known as Drotte;Droctonius)
Commemorated on 10 March
Spiritual student of Saint Germain. Abbot of Saint Symphorium at Autun. Abbot of Saint Germain-des-Pres in Paris.
Born: in Auxerre, France Died: c. 576 of natural causes Canonised: Pre-Congregation
(also known as Eminian;Imelin)
Commemorated on 10 March
Benedictine monk. Abbot of Lagny, France.
Born: Irish Died: 675 of natural causes Canonised: Pre-Congregation
(also known as Mateo Elias Nieves)
Commemorated on 10 March
Born a sickly baby in a deeply religious peasant family; had to be quickly baptized as they did not think he would survive.Nearly died of tuberculosis at age 12.His father died soon after, and Elias had to support the family.Admitted to the Augustinian college of Yuriria at age 22, considerably older than the standard admission age.Took vows in 1911 as Elias del Socorro. Ordained on 9 April 1916.Parochial vicar of the village of La Canada de Caracheo in 1921.During the government prosecution of the Church, he refused to a city where he could be controlled; moving instead to nearby hills where he continued to serve his parish, usually under cover of dark.Arrested with some pious laymen, and martyred on the side of the road for his faith and service.
Born: 21 September 1882 at San Pedro, Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico as Mateo Elias Nieves Died: shot by soldiers under the command of Captain Manuel Marquez Cervantes on 10 March 1928 Beatified: 12 October 1997 by Pope John Paul II Canonised: pending
Commemorated on 10 March
Christian soldiers murdered for their faith.
Died: 320 by being exposed naked on a frozen pond to freeze to death at Sebaste, Armenia;bodies afterward burned Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
Fought the Montanist heresy. Martyred under Marcus Aurelius.
Died: c. 172 at Apamea, Phrygia
Commemorated on 10 March
Priest.Died en route home from a pilgrimage to Rome.While he was apparently on his death bed, a young woman gave him a pitcher of water, which he turned into wine.
Born: Irish Died: c. 750 at Vissenacken, Belgium of natural causes Canonised: Pre-Congregation
(also known as John of the Holy Trinity)
Commemorated on 10 March
Benedictine Vallumbrosan monk at Florence, Italy, taking the religious name John of the Holy Trinity.Developed a fascination with black magic, and began to study and practice it in secret, collecting occult and forbidden writings.Eventually found out, and summoned before the abbot-general of the Vallumbrosans.He denied it, then confessed.He was imprisoned by the Order, which proved to be his salvation.The solitude led him to true penitence, and some severe self-imposed autsterities.Seeing his conversion, his brothers asked that he return to the community, but he refused, preferring the saving solitude of his cell.He lived to old age as a hermit, writing, and receiving visions of Saint Catherine of Siena.
Born: at Florence, Italy Died: c. 1380 of natural causes
Commemorated on 10 March
Walter Ogilvie was a Scottish noble who raised his son John in the state religion of Scotland, Calvinism.John converted to Catholicism at age 17 at Louvain, Belgium.Attended several Catholic educational institutions.Joined the Jesuits soon after in 1597, and ordained in Paris in 1610.Sent to work in Rouen, France.He repeatedly requested assignment to Scotland. Send only those, wrote the Earl of Angus to the Jesuit General, who wish for this mission and are strong enough to bear the heat of the day, for they will be in exceeding danger. Wholesale massacres of Catholics had taken place in Scotland, but by this point the hunters concentrated on priests those who attended Mass.The Jesuits were determined to minister to the oppressed Catholic laity.When captured, they were tortured for information, then hanged, drawn, and quartered.Ogilvie s request was granted, and he returned to Scotland in November 1613.He worked as an underground missionary in Edinburgh and Glasgow, dodging the Queen s priest-hunters, disguised as a soldier named Watson.After 11 months in the field, John was betrayed by a phony Catholic, imprisoned, interrogated, then tortured for the names of active Catholics.He suffered, but gave them no information. Your threats cheer me; I mind them no more than the cackling of geese. Asked if he feared to die he said, No more than you do to dine. After three trials, he was convicted of treason for being loyal to the Pope, and denying the king s supremacy in spiritual matters.He is the Church s only officially recorded Scottish martyr.
Born: 1579 at Drum, Keith, Scotland Died: hanged 10 March 1615 at Glasgow, Scotland;no relic of his body has survived Canonised: 1976 by Pope Paul VI
(also known as Mackessog;Kessag;Kassog)
Commemorated on 10 March
Pious youth. Miracle worker as a child. Missionary to Scotland. Bishop.May have been martyred at Bandry, but records are unclear.
Born: at Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland Died: c. 560 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
(also known as Eugénie Milleret de Brou;Eugénie Milleret de Bron;Mere Marie Eugénie)
Commemorated on 10 March
Raised in a family with no belief, she converted and felt a call to religious life by hearing the sermons of Lacordaire at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France.Had a short novitiate with the Sisters of the Visitation at Cote Saint-Andre, but did not take vows.During a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sainte-Anne d Auray in 1825 she felt called to founded a teaching institute that worked in the world, but kept monastic observances.In 1839 she founded the group later named the Congregation of the Assumption (Religious of the Assumption, Sisters of the Assumption) to perform this mission.The Assumptionists received papal approval in 1888.
Born: 1817 at Metz, France as Eugenie Milleret de Brou (de Bron) Died: 10 March 1898 at Antevil Beatified: 9 February 1975 by Pope Paul VI Canonised: pending
Commemorated on 10 March
Bishop of Jerusalem in 314.Fought Arianism.Participated in and signed the documents of the Council of Nicaea, and helped formulate the Nicene Creed.When Saint Helena discovered a collection of crosses, one of which was the True Cross, Macarius suggested identifying the real one by touching them to a seriously ill woman, and seeing which one cured her.Supervised the construction of the church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Born: unknown Died: 335 of natural causes Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
Educated at the University of Bologna; brilliant law student.One night while he meditated on the worldly success he would have, he was visited by the spirit of a deceased relative, a man who had also been a lawyer, whose pride and perjury had lost him his chance at paradise.Shaken, Peter devoted himself to prayer, asking for his vocation.Soon he received a word that he should become a Dominican.In a rage, his father came to Bologna to stop him, but when he saw completely happy Peter was, the older man gave him his blessing.Peter became one of the finest preachers in Sicily, always preaching in the open air because no church was large enough to hold the crowds.Visited by Saint Vincent Ferrer. Abbey prior.One day when there was no food for the community, Peter asked a fisherman for a donation; he was rudely refused.Getting into a boat, Peter rowed from the shore and made a sign to the fish; they broke the nets and followed him.The fisherman apologized, Peter made another sign to the fish, and they returned to the nets.The monastery was ever afterwards supplied with fish.Sent to establish regular observance in Sicilian monasteries.Called to Florence by the Pope to help heal the Greek schism; he managed a brief union.Offered a bishopric, but refused.Once when Peter was preaching at Catania, Mount Etna erupted and lava flowed toward the city.The people begged him to save them.He preached a brief sermon on repentance, went to the nearby shrine of Saint Agatha, removed the saint s veil, and held it towards the lava flow.The eruption ceased and the town was saved. Miracle worker; raised the dead to life, healed the crippled and the blind, converted sinners.
Born: 1381 at Palermo, Sicily Died: 1452 Beatified: 1784 ( cultus confirmed)
Commemorated on 10 March
During the persecution of Emperor Valerian he was arrested for his faith, tortured, and martyred with a group of fellow Christians.
Born: Greek Died: thrown to wild animals;when they would not harm him, he was beheaded c. 258 Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
Son of Castinus.Held the pontificate during the end of the Roman Empire.He defended the Council of Chalcedon against the Monophysites heresy of the Eastern empire.Worked for Italian people against barbarian invaders.Built four large churches in Rome, and brought some order and organization to the administration of the sacraments in the local churches, bringing the focus back to the sacrament rather than the place of its administration.Opposed Emperor Leo who wanted to officially make the Patriarch of Constantinople second only to the pope in authority.
Born: at Tivoli, Italy Died: 10 March 483 of natural causes;buried at Saint Peter s, Vatican City Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
Benedictine monk. Abbot of Seir-Kieran abbey. Bishop of Ossory, Ireland.Friend of Saint Luanus.
Died: c. 570 of natural causes Canonised: Pre-Congregation
Commemorated on 10 March
Marytred in the persecutions of Decius.
Born: unknown Died: martyred c. 250 in North Africa Canonised: Pre-Congregation