--- title: "Saints’ Feast Days in March: Day by Day · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/saints/march/ description: "Catholic saints’ feast days in March, day by day: St. Patrick (Mar 17), St. Joseph (Mar 19) and a saint for every date, with life and patronage." --- Saints by feast day # Saints’ feast days in *March* March has 31 saints in Bless’s calendar, one for each of its 31 days. In 2026–2028 the US calendar keeps the day of one of them as a memorial, feast or solemnity at least once: St. Joseph. About these dates Feast days, titles and patronages come from the app’s calendar of saints; “Memorial”, “Feast” and “Solemnity” mark the saints whose day the US calendar keeps (at least once in 2026–2028). ## March 1 ### [St. David of Wales](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-david-of-wales/) Bishop · died c. 589 Patron of Wales Founder-abbot of austere monasteries where the brethren pulled the plough themselves and spoke only at need — ‘the Waterman,’ who drank nothing stronger. [The life of St. David of Wales](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-david-of-wales/) ## March 2 ### [St. Agnes of Bohemia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes-of-bohemia/) Virgin · died c. 1282 A princess betrothed in turn to dukes and emperors who refused them all for Christ, founded Prague’s great hospital and the first Poor Clare convent north of the Alps, and exchanged letters with Clare of Assisi that still survive. Her canonization in November 1989 came days before her country’s freedom. [Upcoming dates for St. Agnes of Bohemia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-agnes-of-bohemia/) ## March 3 ### [St. Katharine Drexel](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-katharine-drexel/) Virgin · died 1955 Heiress of a Philadelphia banking fortune who asked Leo XIII to send missionaries to America’s Indian and Black communities — and was told by the pope to become a missionary herself. She did: her Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and twenty million dollars built more than sixty schools, Xavier University of Louisiana among them. [Upcoming dates for St. Katharine Drexel](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-katharine-drexel/) ## March 4 ### [St. Casimir](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-casimir/) Prince · died c. 1484 Patron of Poland and Lithuania A prince of Poland who declined his father’s wars and a proffered throne, kept a hidden austerity under court dress, and was found at night praying at locked church doors. [The life of St. Casimir](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-casimir/) ## March 5 ### [St. John Joseph of the Cross](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-joseph-of-the-cross/) Priest · died 1734 A Neapolitan Franciscan of the strictest observance who never left off the one habit he had received at sixteen, governed as provincial with a mother’s gentleness, and was so besieged for counsel that the friary door had to be repaired yearly. [Upcoming dates for St. John Joseph of the Cross](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-joseph-of-the-cross/) ## March 6 ### [St. Fridolin](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-fridolin/) Missionary · died c. 540 An Irish wandering monk honored as the apostle of the Upper Rhine, founder of the island monastery of Säckingen, whose memory the Swiss canton of Glarus bears on its very flag. [Upcoming dates for St. Fridolin](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-fridolin/) ## March 7 ### [Sts. Perpetua and Felicity](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-perpetua-and-felicity/) Martyrs · died c. 203 Patron of mothers and expectant mothers Vibia Perpetua, a twenty-two-year-old noblewoman of Carthage with a nursing baby, and Felicity, her pregnant slave, arrested together as catechumens. [The life of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-perpetua-and-felicity/) ## March 8 ### [St. John of God](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-god/) Religious · died 1550 Patron of hospitals, nurses, and booksellers A Portuguese shepherd, soldier in Charles V’s wars, and drifting peddler of books whose midlife conversion under John of Ávila’s preaching was so violent that Granada locked him in the madhouse — where the beatings taught him… [The life of St. John of God](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-of-god/) ## March 9 ### [St. Frances of Rome](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-frances-of-rome/) Religious · died c. 1440 Patron of motorists A Roman noblewoman, forty years a devoted wife while running her palazzo as a relief station through plague, famine, and civil war. A wife, she held, may have to leave God at the altar to find him again in her housework. [The life of St. Frances of Rome](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-frances-of-rome/) ## March 10 ### [St. John Ogilvie](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-ogilvie/) Priest and Martyr · died 1615 A Scots Calvinist convert who returned to his country as a hunted Jesuit, ministered in secret for less than a year, and was betrayed, tortured with sleep deprivation for over a week, and hanged at Glasgow at thirty-six — Scotland’s only canonized post-Reformation martyr. [Upcoming dates for St. John Ogilvie](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-ogilvie/) ## March 11 ### [St. Eulogius of Córdoba](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-eulogius-of-cordoba/) Priest and Martyr · died c. 859 A priest of Muslim Córdoba who recorded and encouraged the martyrs of his generation, wrote to strengthen the faithful from prison, was elected archbishop of Toledo but never consecrated: he was beheaded for sheltering a convert girl, Leocritia, who followed him in death four days later. [Upcoming dates for St. Eulogius of Córdoba](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-eulogius-of-cordoba/) ## March 12 ### [St. Maximilian of Tebessa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maximilian-of-tebessa/) Martyr · died c. 295 A twenty-one-year-old Numidian conscript who refused the army oath because, as a Christian, he could not serve as a soldier. Offered the emperor’s service and badge, he answered that his badge was Christ’s, and was beheaded — the early Church’s clearest voice of conscientious objection. [Upcoming dates for St. Maximilian of Tebessa](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-maximilian-of-tebessa/) ## March 13 ### [St. Leander of Seville](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-leander-of-seville/) Bishop · died c. 600 Eldest of four sibling saints and Isidore’s teacher, he converted the Visigothic kings of Spain from Arianism — enduring exile for it — presided over the great council of Toledo, and introduced the creed into the Mass. Gregory the Great, his friend, dedicated books to him. [Upcoming dates for St. Leander of Seville](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-leander-of-seville/) ## March 14 ### [St. Matilda](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-matilda/) Queen · died c. 968 Wife of the German king Henry the Fowler and mother of an emperor, an archbishop, and two rebellious sons who twice stripped her of her dower for giving too much away. She founded abbeys, taught the poor, and answered plunder with more almsgiving. [Upcoming dates for St. Matilda](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-matilda/) ## March 15 ### [St. Louise de Marillac](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-louise-de-marillac/) Religious · died 1660 Patron of social workers An orphaned noblewoman, widowed mother, and scrupulous soul whom Vincent de Paul steadied and set to work. [The life of St. Louise de Marillac](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-louise-de-marillac/) ## March 16 ### [St. Heribert of Cologne](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-heribert-of-cologne/) Bishop · died c. 1021 Chancellor to Emperor Otto III and then archbishop of Cologne, remembered for founding Deutz abbey, for reconciliation with a hostile new emperor whom he won over completely, and for an almsgiving so systematic the poor of the city called the palace theirs. [Upcoming dates for St. Heribert of Cologne](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-heribert-of-cologne/) ## March 17 ### [St. Patrick](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-patrick/) Bishop and Missionary · died c. 461 Patron of Ireland and engineers A Roman Briton kidnapped at sixteen by Irish raiders and enslaved six years as a herdsman, where the boy who had ignored God learned to pray a hundred times a day. [The life of St. Patrick, with 1 quotation](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-patrick/) ## March 18 ### [St. Cyril of Jerusalem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyril-of-jerusalem/) Bishop and Doctor of the Church · died c. 386 Bishop of Jerusalem through the worst of the Arian troubles — exiled three times, sixteen of his thirty-five years as bishop spent away from his see — and a shepherd who once sold church treasures to feed the starving, and was… [The life of St. Cyril of Jerusalem](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cyril-of-jerusalem/) ## March 19 ### [St. Joseph](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joseph/) Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity) Patron of workers, fathers, and a happy death The carpenter of Nazareth, of David’s royal line, who took Mary into his home at the angel’s word and gave the Son of God a trade, a town, and a name. Scripture records his dreams and his obedience, but not a single word. [The life of St. Joseph](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-joseph/) ## March 20 ### [St. Cuthbert](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cuthbert/) Bishop · died c. 687 Shepherd, monk of Melrose, prior of Lindisfarne, and hermit of Farne Island, called from his birds and seals to be bishop for two years — walking his wild diocese, healing and reconciling through plague. His incorrupt body, carried by monks fleeing the Danes, founded Durham. [Upcoming dates for St. Cuthbert](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-cuthbert/) ## March 21 ### [St. Nicholas of Flüe](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-nicholas-of-flue/) Hermit · died c. 1487 Patron of Switzerland A Swiss farmer, magistrate, and father of ten who, at fifty, with his wife’s consent, became the hermit ‘Brother Klaus’ of the Ranft gorge, living — witnesses attested — on the Eucharist alone for nineteen years. [The life of St. Nicholas of Flüe](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-nicholas-of-flue/) ## March 22 ### [St. Nicholas Owen](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-nicholas-owen/) Religious and Martyr · died 1606 A tiny Oxford carpenter, Jesuit lay brother, who for twenty-six years built the priest-holes of England — ingenious hides that saved hundreds of lives, working alone by night. Captured at last, he was torn to death on the Tower rack rather than betray a single one. [Upcoming dates for St. Nicholas Owen](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-nicholas-owen/) ## March 23 ### [St. Turibius of Mogrovejo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-turibius-of-mogrovejo/) Bishop · died 1606 A Spanish law professor made archbishop of Lima while still a layman, who crossed his vast Andean diocese three times on foot, learned the Indian languages, produced the first trilingual catechism of the Americas, championed the conquered against their conquerors, and confirmed Rose of Lima and Martin de Porres. [Upcoming dates for St. Turibius of Mogrovejo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-turibius-of-mogrovejo/) ## March 24 ### [St. Oscar Romero](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-oscar-romero/) Bishop and Martyr · died 1980 The bookish, cautious archbishop of San Salvador whom the murder of his friend Rutilio Grande transformed into the voice of his voiceless people. His Sunday sermons, broadcast nationwide, named the disappeared one by one. The day after begging soldiers, in the name of God, to stop the repression, he was shot dead at the altar. [Upcoming dates for St. Oscar Romero](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-oscar-romero/) ## March 25 ### [St. Dismas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-dismas/) The Good Thief The criminal crucified at the Lord’s right hand who rebuked his mocking fellow, owned the justice of his own sentence, and asked only to be remembered — and received the largest promise in Scripture: ‘This day you shall be with me in Paradise.’ The Church keeps him as patron of prisoners and of deathbed conversions. [Upcoming dates for St. Dismas](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-dismas/) ## March 26 ### [St. Ludger](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ludger/) Bishop · died c. 809 A Frisian educated at York who evangelized his own people and the conquered Saxons — by persuasion, notably, where Charlemagne had used the sword — founded the abbey that became the city of Münster, and served as its first bishop. [Upcoming dates for St. Ludger](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-ludger/) ## March 27 ### [St. Rupert of Salzburg](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-rupert-of-salzburg/) Bishop · died c. 710 A Frankish bishop who carried the faith into Bavaria at the duke’s invitation, founded the church and monastery of St. Peter amid Roman ruins at a place of salt springs — Salzburg — and is honored as that city’s founder and first archbishop. [Upcoming dates for St. Rupert of Salzburg](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-rupert-of-salzburg/) ## March 28 ### [St. Guntram](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-guntram/) King · died c. 592 A Merovingian king whom Gregory of Tours, no flatterer of kings, called ‘good King Guntram’: a protector of the Church and the poor in a brutal dynasty, generous in famine and plague, who repented publicly of the sins of his early reign. [Upcoming dates for St. Guntram](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-guntram/) ## March 29 ### [Sts. Jonas and Barachisius](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-jonas-and-barachisius/) Martyrs · died c. 327 Two Persian monks who encouraged imprisoned Christians during King Shapur’s great persecution, were arrested themselves, and met elaborate tortures with the answer that they could not prefer a king who dies to the King who lives. The ancient Acts of their martyrdom survive. [Upcoming dates for Sts. Jonas and Barachisius](https://blessbible.app/saints/sts-jonas-and-barachisius/) ## March 30 ### [St. John Climacus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-climacus/) Abbot · died c. 649 Monk and late-in-life abbot of Sinai, author of the Ladder of Divine Ascent — thirty rungs from renunciation to love, one for each year of the Lord’s hidden life. Eastern monasteries still read it aloud every Lent; his very name means ‘of the Ladder.’ [Upcoming dates for St. John Climacus](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-climacus/) ## March 31 ### [St. Benjamin](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-benjamin/) Deacon and Martyr · died c. 424 A Persian deacon released from prison on the Roman ambassador’s pledge that he would cease preaching — a pledge Benjamin refused to keep, asking how he could withhold the light. After a year of open preaching he was martyred under Bahram V. [Upcoming dates for St. Benjamin](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-benjamin/) [Previous month Saints of February](https://blessbible.app/saints/february/) [Next month Saints of April](https://blessbible.app/saints/april/) Spotted a mistake in a date, a patronage or a quotation? [Report an error](https://blessbible.app/support/#report) and we’ll fix it in the app and here.