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Saints of 1 March

51 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 1 March, with short facts.

Marian titles (1)

  • Our Lady della Croce

Saints (29)

  • St. Abdalong of Marseilles Died: c.738.
  • St. Adrian of Numidia Died: c.290.
  • St. Agnes Cao Guiying Born: c.1821 in Wujiazhai, Guizhou, China. Died: 1 March 1856 in Xilin, Guangxi, China. Canonized: 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Agnese Cao Kuiying, Agnes Tsao Kou Ying, Agnes Kouying Tsao, Agnes Tsao-kouy, and Inés, Yiani.
  • St. Albaud of Toul Born: late 5th century Gaul (in modern France). Died: c.525 in Toul, France. Also called Aladius, Albaudius, Albin, Aubin.
  • St. Albin of Embrun
  • St. Albinus of Angers Born: 469 at Vannes, Brittany, France. Died: 1 March 549. Patronage: sick children, against blindness, against pertussis or whooping cough, against pirate attacks, and Saint-Aubin, Belgium. Also called Aubin.
  • St. Albinus of Vercelli Patronage: Pella, Italy. Also called Albin, Albino.
  • St. Amandus of Boixe Also called Amantius, Amant, Amand.
  • St. Antonina of Bithynia Died: sewn up in a sack and thrown into a pond to drown c.306 at Nicaea, Bithynia (in modern Turkey). Also called Antonina of Nicomedia.
  • St. Bono of Cagliari Also called Bonus.
  • Sts. Constantius and Faustus of Cologne
  • St. David of Wales Born: c.542 at Menevia (now Saint David's), Wales. Died: c.601 at Mynyw, Wales. Canonized: 1120 by Pope Callistus II. Patronage: doves and Wales. Also called David the Briton, David of Menevia, David del Galles, and Degui, Dewi, Dewid, Dewm, Dewn, Dmui.
  • St. Domnina of Syria Died: c.460.
  • St. Donatus of Carthage Died: 430 in Carthage, North Africa (modern Tunis, Tunisia).
  • St. Eudocia of Heliopolis Born: at Heliopolis in Coele-Syria. Died: beheaded in the 2nd century. Also called Eudocia of Samaria, Eudocia the Samaritan, and Eudokia, Eudoxia, Eudossia.
  • St. Hermes of Numidia Died: c.290.
  • St. Leo of Rouen Born: c.856 at Carentan, Normandy, France. Died: beheaded c.900 near Bayonne, France. Patronage: Bayonne, France. Also called Leo of Bayonne, Leo of Carentan, and Leon, Leone.
  • St. Leolucas of Corleone Born: c.815 to 818 at Corleone, Sicily. Died: c.915. Patronage: Corleone, Sicily and Vibo Valentia, Italy. Also called Leo Lukas, Leo Luke, Leoluca, Leone Luca, and Leo Luke of Corleone.
  • St. Librén Born: latter 6th-century Ireland. Died: 610.
  • St. Lupercus Died: 3rd century. Also called Loubert, Luperc, Lupercio, Lupercius, Luperculus.
  • St. Marnock Born: Ireland. Died: c.625 at Annandale, Scotland. Also called Marnan, Marnanus, Marnoc.
  • Martyrs of Eichstätt Died: in Rome, Italy.
  • St. Moinnen of Clonfert Died: c.571. Also called Maoineann, Moenu, Monendabbis.
  • St. Monan Died: murdered in 874 in the area of the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
  • St. Rudesind Born: 26 November 907 in Galicia, Spain. Died: 1 March 977 at Celanova, Spain. Canonized: 1195 by Pope Celestine III. Also called Rosendo, Rudesinde, Rudesindo, Rudesindus.
  • St. Simplicius of Bourges Died: 1 March 477 in Clermont, France.
  • St. Siviard Died: c.729. Also called Siviardus, Siviardo.
  • St. Swithbert Born: c.647. Died: 1 March 713 near Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth, Germany. Patronage: against angina, against throat ailments, angina sufferers, Drevenack, Germany, and Germany. Also called Apostle of the Bructeri, Apostle of the Frisians, Swithbert the Elder, and Swithbert of Kaiserswerth.
  • St. Ursus of Toul Born: Frankish. Died: c.500 in Toul, France. Also called Orso, Ours, Ursinus.

Popes (1)

  • Pope St. Felix III Born: at Rome, Italy. Died: 1 March 492 at Rome, Italy.

Blessed (11)

  • Blessed Agapios of Vatopedi
  • Blessed Aurelia of Wirberg Born: 12th century Germany.
  • Blessed Bertrand of Fontaniva Born: latter 12th century Pomerania (in modern Germany). Died: 1 March 1220 outside Fontaniva, Italy. Patronage: Fontaniva, Italy. Also called Bertrand d'Orega and Bertramo, Bertrando.
  • Blessed Bonavita of Lugo Died: 1375 in Lugo, Italy. Also called Bonavita the Blacksmith.
  • Blessed Christopher of Milan Born: 1410 in Milan, Italy. Died: 1484 at Our Lady of Mercy convent, Taggia, Italy. Beatified: 1875 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmed).
  • Blessed Claudius Gabriel Faber Died: 1575 in Lunel, France.
  • Blessed George Biandrate Born: Italy. Died: 1483.
  • Blessed Giovanna Maria Bonomo Born: 15 August 1606 at her family’s country estate outside Asiago. Died: 1 March 1670. Beatified: 9 June 1783 by Pope Pius VI. Also called Jane Mary Bonomo and Jeanne-Marie Bonomo.
  • Blessed Gonzalo de Ubeda Died: 1538 in Granada, Spain. Also called Gonzalo of Granada.
  • Blessed Pietro Ernandez
  • Blessed Roger Lefort Born: c.1285 in the castle of Ternes near Guéret, Les Ternes, Creuse, France. Died: 1367. Also called Roger de Beaufort, Roger de Ternes, Roger le Fort, and Roger of Bourges.

Martyr groups (3)

  • Martyrs of Africa
  • Martyrs of Antwerp Died: 2nd century Rome, Italy.
  • Martyrs of the Salarian Way Died: shot.

Other (6)

  • Abbey of Fontenelle Also called Abbey of Saint Wandrille, Fontenelle Abbey, Founded, Profiled Monks of Fontenelle, and Blessed Milo of Fontenelle.
  • Anna Thienel
  • Jared the Patriarch Also called Jered, Yard.
  • Jonathann the Patriarch
  • Martyrs Under Alexander Died: 219.
  • Seth the Patriarch

This list combines the Vatican News “Saint of the day” pages with a long-form calendar of saints, blessed, and feasts (credited on our Resources page). Calendars differ, so a note marks each place the sources disagree. This is not the General Roman Calendar. Resources · Sources & method

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