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Saints of 3 March

36 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 3 March, with short facts.

Saints (22)

  • St. Anselm of Nonantola Born: at Forum Juhi, (modern Friuli), Italy. Died: 803. Patronage: Nonantola, Italy. Also called Anselm of Friuli.
  • St. Arthelais of Benevento Born: 544 at Constantinople. Died: 560 in Benevento, Italy. Patronage: against bodily ills, illness or sickness, exiled people, kidnap victims, sick people, and Benevento, Italy. Also called Artelais, Artellais, Arthellais, Artellaide.
  • St. Asterius of Caesarea Died: beheaded c.262 at Caesarea, Palestine. Also called Asterus, Asturius.
  • St. Calupan Born: c.526. Died: 3 March 576 at Auvergne, France. Also called Caluppano, Caluppanus.
  • St. Camilla Born: at Civitavecchia, Italy. Died: c.437 at Ecoulives, France.
  • St. Cele-Christ Died: c.728. Also called Christicola.
  • St. Cheledonius of Calahorra Born: Spanish. Died: 4th century Calahorra, Old Castile, Spain. Patronage: Calahorra, Spain.
  • St. Cleonicus of Pontus Died: martyred in 308 in Pontus. Also called Clement, Cleonico.
  • St. Cunegundes Died: 1040. Canonized: 1200 by Pope Innocent III. Patronage: Bamberg, Germany, archdiocese of, Bamberg, Germany, city of, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and Poland.
  • St. Emeterius of Calahorra Born: Spanish. Died: 4th century Calahorra, Old Castile, Spain. Patronage: Calahorra, Spain. Also called Emeterio, Emiterius, Hemeterius, Hemiterius, Madir.
  • St. Eutropius of Pontus Died: martyred in 308 in Pontus. Also called Eutropio.
  • St. Foila Also called Faile, Fallena, Follenna.
  • St. Gervinus Born: at Rheims, France. Died: 1075.
  • St. Katharine Drexel Born: 26 November 1858 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died: 3 March 1955. Canonized: 1 October 2000 at Rome, Italy by Pope John Paul II. Also called Catherine Marie Drexel.
  • St. Lamalisse Born: Scottish. Died: 7th century.
  • St. Marinus of Caesarea Died: beheaded c.262 at Caesarea, Palestine. Also called Marino.
  • St. Non Died: in Brittany, France. Also called Nonna, Nonnita.
  • St. Piamun of Egypt Born: mid 4th century Egypt. Died: late 4th century.
  • St. Sacer Born: Irish. Died: 7th century. Also called Mo-Sacra.
  • St. Teresa Eustochio Verzeri Born: 31 July 1801 at Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy as Ignazia Verzeri. Died: 3 March 1852 at Brescia, Italy. Canonized: 10 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Patronage: Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Also called Ignazia Verzeri.
  • St. Titian of Brescia Born: in Germany. Died: c.536. Also called Tiziano.
  • St. Winwallus Born: c.462 at Plou-Fragan, Brittany, France. Died: 3 March 530. Patronage: Y Vaenor, Brecknockshire, Wales.

Blessed (11)

  • Blessed Antonio Francesco Marzorati Born: 10 September 1670 in Biumo Inferiore, Varese, Italy. Died: stoned to death by a mob on 3 March 1716 in Gondar, Ethiopia. Beatified: 20 November 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Samuele Marzorati.
  • Blessed Benedetto Sinigardi da Arezzo Born: c.1190 in Arezzo, Italy. Died: 1282 in the Franciscan Poggio del Sole convent in Arezzo, Italy. Also called Benedetto Sinigardi and Benedict of Arezzo.
  • Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida Born: 8 December 1862 at San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Died: 3 March 1937 at Mexico City, Mexico. Beatified: 4 May 2019 by Pope Francis. Also called Conchita and María Concepción Cabrera Arias de Armida.
  • Blessed Frederick of Hallum Born: Hallum, Frisia (in modern Netherlands). Died: 3 March 1175 in Frisia (modern Netherlands). Beatified: 8 March 1728 by Pope Benedict XIII (cultus confirmation).
  • Blessed Innocent of Berzo Born: 19 March 1844 at Niardo, Brescia, Italy as Giovanni Scalvinoni. Died: 3 March 1890 at Begamo, Italy. Beatified: 12 November 1961 by Pope John XXIII. Patronage: Berzo Inferiore, Italy. Also called Giovanni Scalvinoni and Innocenzo de Berzo.
  • Blessed Ísleifur Gissurarson of Skálholt Born: c.1006 in Iceland. Died: 5 July 1080 in Iceland.
  • Blessed Jacobinus de Canepaci Born: 1438 at Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy. Died: 3 March 1508. Beatified: 5 March 1845 by Pope Gregory XVI (cultus confirmed). Also called Jacobinus of Crevacuore and Jacobino, Jacopino.
  • Blessed Johannes Laurentius Weiss Born: 4 January 1675 in Konnersreuth, Bavaria, Germany. Died: stoned to death by a mob on 3 March 1716 in Gondar, Ethiopia. Beatified: 20 November 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Liberat Weiss.
  • Blessed Michele Pío Fasoli Born: 3 May 1676 in Zerbo, Pavia, Italy. Died: stoned to death by a mob on 3 March 1716 in Gondar, Ethiopia. Beatified: 20 November 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Michael Pío da Zerbo.
  • Blessed Peter de Geremia Born: 1381 at Palermo, Sicily. Died: 3 March 1452 in the convent of Santa Zita, Palermo, Sicily. Beatified: 12 May 1784 by Pope Pius VI (cultus confirmed). Patronage: Palermo, Italy. Also called Pietro Geremia.
  • Blessed Pierre-René Rogue Born: 11 June 1758 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. Died: 3 March 1796 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. Beatified: 10 May 1934 by Pope Pius XI. Also called Pietro Renato Rogue.

Martyr groups (2)

  • Martyrs of Africa
  • Martyrs of Rome

Other (1)

  • 40 Martyrs in North Africa

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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