Quinquagesima Sunday:
This Season is seventeen (17) days long and includes the three Sundays before Ash Wednesday.
The length of the Season never changes but the start date is dependent on the movable date of Easter, which can fall between 22 March-25 April.
For many early Christians Quinquagesima marked the time after which meat was forbidden. In many places, this Sunday and the next two days, were used to prepare for Lent by a good Confession; hence in England, we find the names Shrove Sunday and Shrovetide. Shrove is a form of the English word “shrive,” which means – to obtain absolution for one’s sins by way of Confession and doing penance..
As the days before Lent were frequently spent in merry-making, Pope Benedict XIV by the Constitution “Inter Cetera” (1 January 1748) introduced a Forty Hours’ Devotion to keep the faithful from dangerous amusements and to make some reparation for sins committed.
Quinquagesima also means, the time between Easter and Pentecost, or from the Saturday after Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost; it is then called Quinquagesima Paschae paschalis, or laetitae.
Nuestra Señora de las Apariciones / Our Lady of Apparitions, Madrid, Spain (1449) – 2 March:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/02/our-lady-of-apparitions-madrid-spain-1449-and-memorials-of-the-saints-2-march/
St Absolon of Caesarea
St Agnes of Prague/Bohemia (1211-1282) Virgin, Nun, Princess, Foundress, Abbess, Missionary of Charity and Mercy – Patron of the Czech Republic and Prague.
Her Holy Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2017/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-st-agnes-of-praguebohemia/
St Basileus the Martyr
St Chad (c620-672) Bishop of Lichfield, Confessor, Abbot, Monk, known as the “Apostle of Mercia,”in England.
About St Chad:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-saint-chad-c-620-672-bishop/
Blessed Charles the Good (c1083-1127) Martyr, Duke, Apostle, protector and defender of the poor, selling his and his kingdom’s riches to help those in need, wherever he could, a fair and just Ruler who made laws to accommodate the poor rather than the rich (the eventual cause of his Martyrdom), Knight who assisted in Secomd Crusade.
Blessed Charles cultus was officially confirmed by his Beatification in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII.
His Life and Death:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-blessed-charles-the-good-c1083-1127-martyr/
St Cynibild of Laestingaeu
St Felix of Treves
St Fergna the White
Blessed Fulk of Neuilly (Died 1201) Priest
St Girolamo Carmelo di Savoia
St Gistilian
St Joavan (Died c576) English Missionary, Bishop of Brittany, France.
The Life of St Jovan:
https://anastpaul.com/2024/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-saint-joavan-of-brittany-died-c576-bishop/
St Jovinus the Martyr
St Lorgius of Caesarea
St Lucius of Caesarea
St Luke Casali of Nicosia (Died c800) Priest Abbot.
The Roman Martyrology reads: “In Agíra in Sicily, Saint Luke Casale of Nicosía, a Monk, full of humility and virtue.”
St Luke’s Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/02/saint-of-the-day-2-march-saint-luke-casali-of-nicosia-died-c-800/
St Slebhene
St Troas
Martyrs of Campania – Approximately 400 northern Italian Christians Martyred for their faith by pagan Lombards. Their story was recorded by Pope Saint Gregory the Great, who reports that they people spent their final days supporting each other with prayer. c 579 in Camnpania, Italy.
Martyrs of Porto Romano – 4 Saints – Group of Christians Martyred in the persecution of Diocletian. The only other information that survives are the names of four of them – Heraclius, Januaria, Paul and Secondilla. c305 at Porto Romano at the mouth of the River Tiber, Rome.
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