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Saints of 25 March

35 saints, blessed, and feasts kept on 25 March, with short facts.

Feasts (1)

  • Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Patronage: news dealers, Texas, 2 dioceses, and 13 cities. Also called Annunciation of the Lord, Annuntiatio Christi, Annuntiatio Dominica, Annuntiatio Mariae, and Annuntio Domini.

Marian titles (1)

  • Our Lady of Betania

Saints (16)

  • St. Alfwold of Sherborne Died: 1058. Also called Ælfwold.
  • St. Dismas Died: crucified c.30 at Jerusalem. Patronage: condemned prisoners, death row prisoners, dying people, funeral directors, penitent criminals, prison chaplains, prisoners, prisoners on death row, and others.
  • St. Dula the Slave
  • St. Hermenland Born: at diocese of Noyon, France. Died: c.720. Also called Erblon, Herbland, Hermeland, Hermiland.
  • St. Humbert of Pelagius Born: early 7th century at Mezieres-sur-Oise, France. Died: c.680. Also called Humbert of Marolles and Humbert of Maroilles.
  • St. Kennocha of Fife Born: Scottish. Died: 1007. Also called Kyle, Enoch.
  • St. Lucia Filippini Born: 13 January 1672 at Cornetto, Tuscany, Italy. Died: 25 March 1732. Canonized: 22 June 1930 by Pope Pius XI. Patronage: Religious Teachers Filippini. Also called Lucy Filippini.
  • St. Margaret Clitherow Born: 1556 at York, England as Margaret Middleton. Died: pressed to death on Good Friday, 25 March 1586 at York, England. Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI. Patronage: businesswomen, converts, and martyrs.
  • St. Mariam Sultaneh Danil Ghattas Born: 4 October 1843 in Jerusalem. Died: 25 March 1927 at Ain Karim, Jerusalem. Canonized: 17 May 2015 by Pope Francis. Also called Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Maryam Sultanah Danil Ghattas, and Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas.
  • St. Matrona of Barcelona Also called Madrona.
  • St. Matrona of Thessaloniki Died: beaten to death c.350 in Thessaloniki, Macedonia (in modern Greece).
  • St. Mona of Milan Died: 25 March in he early 4th century. Also called Monas.
  • St. Nicodemus of Mammola Born: early-10th century in Cirò, Catanzaro, Italy. Died: 25 March 990 in the monastery at Mammola, Calabria, Italy (a house then renamed San Nicodemo). Patronage: Mammola, Italy (proclaimed in 1630). Also called Nicodemus of Cirò, Nicodemus of Cellerano, Nicodemus of Kellerano, and Nicodemo of....
  • St. Pelagius of Laodicea
  • St. Procopius Born: c.980 at Kourim, Chotoun, Bohemia. Died: 25 March 1053 at Sazava, Bohemia. Canonized: 2 June 1204 by Pope Innocent III. Patronage: Czech Republic and farmers.
  • St. Quirinus of Rome Died: martyred c.269 in Rome, Italy. Also called Quirinus of Tegernsee and Cyrinus, Quirino.

Blessed (9)

  • Blessed Emilian Kovch Born: 20 August 1884 near Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivs'ka oblast, Ukraine. Beatified: 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Ukraine. Also called Omeljan Kovc and Emilian Kowacz.
  • Blessed Everard of Nellenburg Born: c.1015. Died: 1078 in Schaffhausen, Swabia, Germany. Also called Eberhard VI of Nellenburg.
  • Blessed Herman of Zahringen Died: 1074. Also called Herman I of Baden and Herman I, Margrave of Baden.
  • Blessed James Bird Born: 1574 at Winchester, Hampshire, England. Died: hanged. Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI. Also called James Byrd and James Beard.
  • Blessed Josaphata Mykhailyna Hordashevska Born: 20 November 1869 at Lviv, Ukraine as Mykhailyna Hordashevska. Died: 7 April 1919. Beatified: 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II at Ukraine. Also called Giosafata Hordasevska, Michalina Jozafata Hordaszewska, Mykhailyna Hordashevska, and Yosafata Hordashevska.
  • Blessed Margaretha Flesch Born: 24 February 1826 in Schönstatt bei Vallendar, Mayen-Koblenz, Germany. Died: 25 March 1906 in Waldbreitbach, Neuwied, Germany. Beatified: 4 May 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI. Also called Margaret, Maria Rosa.
  • Blessed Pawel Januszewski Born: 11 June 1907 in Krajenki, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland as Pawel Januszewski. Died: 25 March 1945 in prisoner cabin 25 in the Dachau concentration camp, Oberbayern, Germany. Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, Poland. Also called Father Hilary Januszewski.
  • Blessed Placido Riccardi Born: 24 June 1844 in Trevi, Umbria, Italy as Tommaso Riccardi. Died: 25 March 1915 in Rome, Italy. Beatified: 5 December 1954 by Pope Pius XII. Also called Tommaso Riccardi and Thomas Riccardi.
  • Blessed Tommaso of Costacciaro Born: mid-13th century in the castle of San Savino, Costacciaro, Umbria. Died: 25 March 1337 on Monte Cucco, Umbria, Italy. Beatified: Pope Clement VIII (cultus confirmation). Patronage: against abdominal diseases and Costacciaro, Italy.

Martyr groups (1)

  • 262 Martyrs of Rome Died: in Rome, Italy.

Other (7)

  • Arnold de Amar
  • Columba, Daughter of Baoit
  • Francis Bruno
  • Isaac the Patriarch
  • Nicodemus of Mammoth
  • Peter Formica
  • Richard of Pontoise

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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