Saints

died c. 1195 Feast Day March 29 Not much is known about this hermit who is considered by some historians to be the founder of the […]

1825-1888 Feast Day March 27 This aristocratic Piedmontese Italian abandoned a military career for mathematics. Following studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, he began teaching at […]

died circa 952 Feast Day March 26 As a young man, Basil began living as a hermit near Constantinople, now Istanbul, Turkey. Courtiers of the Byzantine […]

First Century Feast Date March 25 Two thieves were crucified with Christ; Dismas is the “good thief” who rebuked the other thief for reviling Jesus. In […]

first century Feast Day March 25 According to the revised New American Bible, the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel tells Mary she has been chosen to […]

c. 634–687 March 20 Cuthbert likely was a Northumbrian Englishman, orphaned as a child. He tended sheep and fought the Mercians, then became a monk at […]

First Century March 19 The husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the legal father of Jesus according to Jewish law, Joseph is a model […]

c. 315-386 Feast Date March 18 Cyril lived when the Arian heresy was roiling Christianity. Raised and educated in Jerusalem, he was ordained by St. Maximus […]