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Saints of 23 March

26 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 23 March, with short facts.

Saints (19)

  • St. Benedict of Campagna Died: c.550. Also called Benedict the Hermit and Benedict of Campania.
  • St. Crescentius of Carthage Died: 484 at Carthage (modern Tunis, Tunisia).
  • St. Ethelwald of Farne Died: spring 699. Also called Ethelwald the Hermit and Aethelwold, Edelwald, Oidilwald.
  • St. Felix of Monte Cassino Died: c.1000.
  • St. Felix the Martyr Died: martyred in Africa in the 5th century.
  • St. Fidelis the Martyr Died: martyred in North Africa.
  • St. Frumentius of Hadrumetum Died: martyred in 484 in Hadrumetum (modern Sousse, Tunisia).
  • St. Gwinear Born: Irish. Died: beheaded c.460 at Hayle, Cornwall, England. Also called Fingar, Guigner, Gwinnear.
  • St. Joseph Oriol Born: 23 November 1650 at Barcelona, Spain. Died: 23 March 1702 at Barcelona, Spain. Canonized: 20 May 1909 by Pope Pius X. Also called José Orioli, Josep Oriol Bogunyà, Thaumaturgus of Barcelona•, and Wonder Worker of Barcelona.
  • St. Julian the Confessor
  • St. Liberatus of Carthage Died: 484 at Carthage (modern Tunis, Tunisia).
  • St. Maidoc of Fiddown Born: Irish. Also called Mo-Mhaedog of Fiddown and Momhaedog.
  • St. Nicon of Sicily Died: martyred c.250 in Sicily, Italy.
  • St. Ottone Frangipane Born: 1040 in Rome, Italy. Died: 23 March 1127 in Ariano Irpino, Italy. Patronage: Ariano Irpino, Italy, city of, Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia, Italy, diocese of, and Castelbottaccio, Italy. Also called Oddone, Oto, Otto.
  • St. Rafqa Born: 29 June 1832 at Himlaya, Lebanon as Boutrossieh Ar-Rayes. Died: 23 March 1914 at the Convent of Saint Joseph, Grabta, Lebanon. Canonized: 10 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Patronage: against bodily ills or sickness, against loss of parents, and sick people.
  • St. Theodolus of Antioch Also called Theodore, Theodoricus.
  • St. Turibius of Mogroveio Born: 1538 at Mayorga de Campos, Leon, Spain. Died: 23 May 1606 at Santa, Peru. Canonized: 10 December 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII. Patronage: Latin American bishops, native rights, Lima, Peru, and Peru. Also called Turibius of Lima.
  • St. Victorian of Hadrumetum Died: 484 in Carthage in North Africa.
  • St. Walter of Pontoise Born: c.1030 in Andainville, Picardy, France. Died: Good Friday, 8 April 1099. Patronage: against job-related stress, prisoners, prisoners of war, vintners, and Pontoise, France. Also called Walter of Pontnoise and Gaucher, Gaultier, Gautier, Gualterio, Gualtiero.

Blessed (5)

  • Blessed Annunciata Asteria Cocchetti Born: 9 May 1800 in Rovato, Italy. Died: 23 March 1882 in Cemmo, Italy. Beatified: 21 April 1991 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy.
  • Blessed Edmund Sykes Born: c.1550 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Died: 23 March 1587 in York, North Yorkshire, England. Beatified: 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II.
  • Blessed Metodej Dominik Trcka Born: 6 July 1886 at Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, Ostravský (modern Czech Republic). Died: 23 March 1959 in a Communist prison camp at Leopoldov, Trnavský kraj, Slovakia. Beatified: 4 November 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Also called Dominik Trcka, Metod Dominik Trcka, and Metodij Dominik Trcka.
  • Blessed Peter Higgins Born: 1601 in Ireland. Died: martyred on 23 March 1642 in Dublin, Ireland. Beatified: 27 September 1992 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy. Also called Peadar Ó Huiggin.
  • Blessed Pietro of Gubbio Born: early 13th century in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy. Died: between 1306 and 1322 in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy. Beatified: 1874 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmation).

Martyr groups (1)

  • Martyrs of Caesarea Died: in 361 in Caesarea, Palestine.

Other (1)

  • Daughters of Feradhach Also called Filiae Feradachi.

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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