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On March 4, we members of the Catholic Church family honor, in a special way, the following friends of God -- "saints" and "blesseds" whose souls are now in heaven:

St. Casimir of Krakow [Kazimierz] (Polish, prince of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania, dedicated life to chastity and prayer, died at age 25 in 1484 [canonized 1521])

St. Adrian of May (British, missionary bishop, martyred by pagan Danes c. 875)
Bl. Alexander Blake (English, layman, martyred under Elizabeth I in 1590 [beatified 1987])
St. Basinus of Lorraine (French, Benedictine abbot, bishop of Trier)
Bl. Christopher Bales of Coniscliffe [or Bayles, alias Evers] (English, priest, tortured and martyred at about age 26 under Elizabeth I in 1590)
St. Gaius of Nicomedia (from Asia Minor [now called Turkey], military officer, martyred by drowning c. 254)
Bl. Humbert III of Savoy (French, count, widower, Cistercian monk, died at about age 52 in 1189 [beatified 1838])
Bl. John Anthony Farina of Gambellara [Giovanni Antonio] (Italian, bishop of Treviso, bishop of Vicenza, founder of Sisters Teachers of St. Dorothy, ordained Pope St. Pius X, died at age 85 in 1888 [beatified 2001])
Bl. Ladislaus Mackowiak of Sytki [Wladyslaw], Bl. Michael Bohatkiewicz of Krykaly [Mieczyslaw], and Bl. Stanislaus Pyrtek of Bystra Podhalanska [Stanislaw] (Polish, diocesan priests, martyred by Nazis [shot] at Borek [Poland] at ages 32/38/29 in 1942 [beatified 1999])
St. Leonard of Avranches (French, bishop, c. 614)
Pope St. Lucius I of Rome (Italian, elected pope in 233, reigned until death in 254)
Bl. Nicholas Horner of Grantley (English, layman, martyred under Elizabeth I in 1590 [beatified 1987])
Bl. Placide Viel of Quettehou [baptized and confirmed Eulalie-Victoire-Jacqueline] (French, farmer's daughter, member of Sisters of the Christian Schools, Mother General for 30 years, died at age 61 in 1877 [beatified 1951)
Bl. Romeo of Limoges (Italian, Carmelite brother in France, d. 1380 [beatified 1842])

If you have anything to share about these holy people, please reply now -- biographical episodes, prayers through their intercession, the fact that one is your patron -- whatever moves you. If you are interested in one of these saints or blesseds and want to find out more about him/her, please ask. Additional information is sometimes available on the Internet.

All you holy men and women, saints of God, pray for us.
God bless you.
John

-- J. F. Gecik ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), March 04, 2005

Answers

-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), March 04, 2005.

God stated: "You shall have no idols before me". Isn't this idolizing Saints???????????????????????

John

-- John (why@why.com), March 04, 2005.

No.

Instead of just posting blindly, John, you would have done well to look up "idol" and "idolizing" in the dictionary. That would have helped you to see that the words are not applicable to this thread nor to anything else in Catholicism.

-- ("jfgecik@hotmail.com), March 05, 2005.