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Wednesday of the Third Week in Lent, Nossa Senhora da Nazaré / Our Lady of Nazareth, Portugal, (1150), Sts Perpetua and Felicity (Died c203) Martyrs and the Saints for 6 March

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Wednesday of the Third Week in Lent

Nossa Senhora da Nazaré / Our Lady of Nazareth, Pierre Noire, Portugal, (1150) – 6 March:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/06/nossa-senhora-da-nazare-our-lady-of-nazareth-pierre-noire-portugal-1150-and-memorials-of-the-saints-6-march/

Sts Perpetua and Felicity (Died c203) Martyrs in Carthage (Roman province of Africa – modern day Tunisia) – Patrons of Mothers, Expectant Mothers, ranchers, butchers, Carthage, Catalonia.
Feast day moved in 1969 to 7 March.
Their Life and Death:
https://anastpaul.com/2017/03/07/saints-of-the-day-7-march-saints-perpetua-and-felicity/

St Aetius
St Bairfhion
St Baldred of Strathclyde
St Baldred the Hermit
St Balther of Lindisfarne
St Basil of Bologna
St Cadroë

St Chrodegang of Metz (c714-776) The First Bishop of Metz, Protector and Father of the poor and orphans, Reformer of the Clergy, a relative of King Pepin and of Prince Charles Martel, both of whom he was Court Chancellor, Royal Diplomat, Saint Opportuna of Montreuil was his brother.
The Roman Martyrology states: “In Metz in Austrasia, in today’s France, St Crodegango, Bishop, who arranged for the Clergy to live as if within the walls of a cloister under an exemplary rule of life and greatly promoted liturgical chant.”
Biography:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-saint-chrodegang-of-metz/

St Colette PCC (1381-1447) Abbess and Foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare. Patronages – against eye disorders, against fever, against headaches, against infertility, against the death of parents, of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers and sick children, craftsmen, Poor Clares, servants, Corbie, France, Ghent, Belgium. St Colette was Canonised on 24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII.
Biography:
https://anastpaul.com/2017/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-st-colette/
AND:
https://anastpaul.com/2019/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-st-colette-2/

St Cyriacus of Trier
St Cyril of Constantinople
St Evagrius of Constantinople

St Fridolin Vandreren of Säckingen (Died c540) “Apostle of the Upper Rhine” Monk, Abbot, Missionary, wandering Evangelist, Founder of the Monastery in Säckingen, Baden (part of modern Germany), Miracle-worker.
A Zealous Example:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-st-fridolin-vandreren-of-sackingen-died-c540-apostle-of-the-upper-rhine/

Bl Guillermo Giraldi
St Heliodorus the Martyr
Bl Jordan of Pisa
St Julian of Toledo
St Kyneburga of Castor
St Kyneswide of Castor
St Marcian of Tortona
St Ollegarius Bonestruga OSA (1060-1137) Bishop
St Patrick of Malaga
St Sananus

Blessed Sylvester of Assisi OFM (Died 1240) Priest, Friar. Sylvester was one of the first 4 followers of St Francis of Assisi and was the first Priest in the Franciscan Order.
About St Sylvester:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-blessed-sylvester-of-assisi-ofm-died-1240-priest/

St Tibba of Castor
St Venustus of Milan

Martyrs of Amorium – 42 Saints – Also known as Martyrs of Syria and Martyrs of Samarra;
A group of 42 Christian senior officials in the Byzantine Empire who were captured by forces of the Abbasid Caliphate when the Muslim forces overran the City of Amorium, Phrygia in 838 and massacred or enslaved its population. The men were imprisoned in Samarra, the seat of the Caliphate, for seven years. Initially thought to be held for ransom due to their high position in the empire, all attempts to buy their freedom were declined. The Caliph repeatedly ordered them to convert to Islam and sent Islamic scholars to the prison to convince them; they refused until the Muslims finally gave up and killed them. Martyrs. We know the names and a little about seven of them:
Aetios
Bassoes
Constantine
Constantine Baboutzikos
Kallistos
Theodore Krateros
Theophilos
but details about the rest have disappeared over time. However, a lack of information did not stop several legendary and increasingly over-blown “Acts” to be written for years afterward. One of the first biographers, a monk name Euodios, presented the entire affair as a judgement by God on the empire for its official policy of Iconoclasm.
Deaths:
beheaded on 6 March 845 in Samarra (in modern Iraq) on the banks of the Euphrates river by Ethiopian slaves
the bodies were thrown into the river, but later recovered by local Christians and given proper burial.

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Saint of the Day – 6 March – St Fridolin Vandreren of Säckingen (Died c540) “Apostle of the Upper Rhine”

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Saint of the Day – 6 March – St Fridolin Vandreren of Säckingen (Died c540) “Apostle of the Upper Rhine” Monk, Abbot, Missionary, wandering Evangelist, Founder of the Monastery in Säckingen, Baden (part of modern Germany), Miracle-worker. Born in Ireland and died in c540 at Säckingen, Germany of natural causes. Also known as – Fredelinus, Fridolin of Säckingen, the Irish Wanderer, Fridold or Fredelinus.

A surviving Vita of Fridolin was written by one Balther (Baltherus), a Monk of Säckingen Monastery, According to the Vita, Fridolin belonged to a noble family in Ireland and at first was a missionary there.

Then crossing to France, he came to Poitiers, where in answer to a vision, he sought out the Relics of Saint Hilary (315-368) and having found them where St Hilary had instructed him to look, Fridolin built a Church in which to enshrine them.

Saint Hilary subsequently appeared to him in a dream and commanded him to proceed to an Island in the Rhine. In obedience to this summons, Fridolin approached Clovis I, who granted him possession of the still unknown Island and thence proceeded through Strasbourg and Coire, founding Churches in every district in honour of Saint Hilary.

At last, reaching the Island of Säckingen in the Rhine, Fridolin recognised the Island indicated in the dream and prepared to build a Church there. The inhabitants of the banks of the Rhine, however, who used the Island as pasture for their cattle, mistook Fridolin for a cattle-robber and expelled him. On his production of Clovis’s Deed of Gift, he was allowed to return and to found a Church and Monastery.

He then resumed his missionary labours. He founded the “Scottish Monastery” (Schottenstift) in Konstanz and extended his mission to Augsburg.

St Fridolin, Kirche Betschwanden

Fridolin’s connection to Glarus is based on a later legend, a 13th-century addition to Balther’s Vita under the title, the Miracles of St Fridolin. In this addition, he converted a landowner, named Ursus. On his death Ursus left his lands in the Linth valley (the later Glarus), to Fridolin, who founded numerous Churches dedicated to Saint Hilary. Ursus’s brother, Landolf refused to accept the legitimacy of the gift and brought Fridolin before a Court at Rankweil,to prove his title. Fridolin did so by summoning Ursus from the dead to confirm the gift in person, so terrifying Landolf that he gave his lands to Fridolin as well.

St Fridolin accompanied by the dead he raised.
Master with the Carnation of Baden, Swiss painter, late 15th Century.

He died on 6 March and was buried at Säckingen. His Relics are venerated in Säckingen although there are countless Churches dedicated to St Fridolin in Germany, Alsace, France and Switzerland.. The City of Glarus in Switzerland has our Saint on their Coat of Arms and below is a Banner of St Fridolin on exhibit in Glarus. St Petrus Damian (1007-1072) wrote of St Frdiolin but refers to the Saint as Fredelinus.

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Monday of the Second Week in Lent – FAST, Nossa Senhora da Nazaré / Our Lady of Nazareth, Portugal, (1150), Sts Perpetua and Felicity and Memorials of the Saints – 6 March

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Monday of the Second Week in Lent – FAST

Nossa Senhora da Nazaré / Our Lady of Nazareth, Pierre Noire, Portugal, (1150) – 6 March:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/06/nossa-senhora-da-nazare-our-lady-of-nazareth-pierre-noire-portugal-1150-and-memorials-of-the-saints-6-march/

Sts Perpetua and Felicity (Died c203) Martyrs in Carthage (Roman province of Africa – modern day Tunisia) – Patrons of Mothers, Expectant Mothers, ranchers, butchers, Carthage, Catalonia.
Feast day moved in 1969 to 7 March.
Their Life and Death:
https://anastpaul.com/2017/03/07/saints-of-the-day-7-march-saints-perpetua-and-felicity/

St Aetius
St Bairfhion
St Baldred of Strathclyde
St Baldred the Hermit
St Balther of Lindisfarne
St Basil of Bologna
St Cadroë

St Chrodegang of Metz (c 714-776) The First Bishop of Metz, Protector and Father of the poor and orphans, Reformer of the Clergy, a relative of King Pepin and of Prince Charles Martel, both of whom he was Court Chancellor, Royal Diplomat, Saint Opportuna of Montreuil was his brother.
The Roman Martyrology states: “In Metz in Austrasia, in today’s France, St Crodegango, Bishop, who arranged for the Clergy to live as if within the walls of a cloister under an exemplary rule of life and greatly promoted liturgical chant.”
Biography:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-saint-chrodegang-of-metz/

St Colette PCC (1381-1447) Abbess and Foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare. Patronages – against eye disorders, against fever, against headaches, against infertility, against the death of parents, of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers and sick children, craftsmen, Poor Clares, servants, Corbie, France, Ghent, Belgium. St Colette was Canonised on 24 May 1807 by Pope Pius VII.
Biography:
https://anastpaul.com/2017/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-st-colette/
AND:
https://anastpaul.com/2019/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-st-colette-2/

St Cyriacus of Trier
St Cyril of Constantinople
St Evagrius of Constantinople
St Fridolin Vandreren of Säckingen (Died c540) “Apostle of the Upper Rhine” Monk, Abbot, Missionary, wandering Evangelist, Founder of the Monastery in Säckingen, Baden (part of modern Germany).
Bl Guillermo Giraldi
St Heliodorus the Martyr
Bl Jordan of Pisa
St Julian of Toledo
St Kyneburga of Castor
St Kyneswide of Castor
St Marcian of Tortona
Bl Ollegarius of Tarragona
St Patrick of Malaga
St Sananus

Blessed Sylvester of Assisi OFM (Died 1240) Priest, Friar. Sylvester was one of the first 4 followers of St Francis of Assisi and was the first Priest in the Franciscan Order.
About St Sylvester:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/06/saint-of-the-day-6-march-blessed-sylvester-of-assisi-ofm-died-1240-priest/

St Tibba of Castor
St Venustus of Milan

Martyrs of Amorium – 42 Saints – Also known as Martyrs of Syria and Martyrs of Samarra;
A group of 42 Christian senior officials in the Byzantine Empire who were captured by forces of the Abbasid Caliphate when the Muslim forces overran the City of Amorium, Phrygia in 838 and massacred or enslaved its population. The men were imprisoned in Samarra, the seat of the Caliphate, for seven years. Initially thought to be held for ransom due to their high position in the empire, all attempts to buy their freedom were declined. The Caliph repeatedly ordered them to convert to Islam and sent Islamic scholars to the prison to convince them; they refused until the Muslims finally gave up and killed them. Martyrs. We know the names and a little about seven of them:

  • Aetios
  • Bassoes
  • Constantine
  • Constantine Baboutzikos
  • Kallistos
  • Theodore Krateros
  • Theophilos
    but details about the rest have disappeared over time. However, a lack of information did not stop several legendary and increasingly over-blown “Acts” to be written for years afterward. One of the first biographers, a monk name Euodios, presented the entire affair as a judgement by God on the empire for its official policy of Iconoclasm.
    Deaths:
  • beheaded on 6 March 845 in Samarra (in modern Iraq) on the banks of the Euphrates river by Ethiopian slaves
  • the bodies were thrown into the river, but later recovered by local Christians and given proper burial.