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The Solemnity of
the Annunciation of the Lord, when,
in the city of Nazareth, the Angel of the Lord
announced to Mary: “You will conceive and give birth
to a son, who will be called the Son of the Most
High.” And Mary answered, saying: “Behold, I am the
handmaid of the Lord. Let it be done to me according
to your word.” Thus, when the fullness of time had
come, the only begotten Son of God, who existed
before the creation of the world, for us and for our
salvation, was incarnate by the Holy Spirit in the
womb of the Virgin Mary and became man.
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The commemoration of
the holy thief, traditionally called “Dismas”,
who on the cross professed faith in Christ and
deserved to hear these words from Him: “Today you
will be with me in paradise”.
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In Nicomedia in Bithynia (now İzmit, Türkiye),
Saint Dula,
martyr. († unknown date)
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In Rome (Italy), at the Pontian cemetery, next to
Via Portuense, Saint
Quirinus, martyr. († unknown date)
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In Thessalonica (now Thessaloniki, Greece),
Saint Matrona, a
martyr, who, being the servant of a Judean woman,
secretly followed the faith of Christ; discovered by
her mistress, she was tormented with various
tortures; finally, scourged to death, confessing the
name of Christ, she gave up her spirit incorrupt to
God. († unknown date)
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In Milan (Italy),
Saint Mona, bishop. († c. 300)
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On the island of Indre, near Nantes (France),
Saint Hermeland, who
passed from the royal court to the monastery of
Fontenelle and later became the first abbot of the
monastery there. († c. 720)
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* In Mammola, near Gerace (Italy),
Saint Nicodemus, a
hermit, who was a master of the monastic life,
renowned for his austerity and great virtues. (†
990)
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In Sázava (Czechia),
Saint Prokop, who, leaving his wife
and son, devoted himself to the eremitical life,
later directed the monastery he founded in this
place and celebrated divine praises in the Greek
rite and in the Slavonic language. († 1053)
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* In Schaffhausen (Germany),
Blessed Eberhard, Count of
Nellenburg, who embraced monastic life in the
monastery of All Saints built by his intervention.
(† 1078)
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* In Costacciaro (Italy),
Blessed Tommaso, a hermit,
who spent sixty-five years of anchoretic life and
taught others to follow the same spiritual path. (†
1337)
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In York (England),
Saint Margaret Clitherow, martyr,
who, with her husband’s consent, embraced the
Catholic faith, raised her children there, and
offered to hide persecuted priests in her home; for
this reason she was imprisoned several times during
the reign of Elizabeth I, and refusing to defend her
cause in court, so that the conscience of the
judge’s counselors would not be weighed down by the
remorse of a death sentence, was crushed under an
enormous weight until she died for Christ. († 1586)
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* In Winton (England),
Blessed James Bird, martyr,
who, under the government of the same queen, at
nineteen years of age and recently converted to the
Catholic faith, for having refused to participate in
a heretical liturgy deserved to enter into the
celebration of the heavenly cult. († 1592)
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In Montefiascone (Italy),
Saint Lucia Filippini, founder
of the Institute of Religious Teachers Filippini,
designed to promote the formation of young women,
especially the poorest. († 1732)
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* In Niederweinigen (Germany),
Blessed Maria Rosa Flesch (Margaretha Flesch),
founder of the Institute of the Franciscan Sisters
of Saint Mary of the Angels. († 1906)
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* In Rome (Italy),
Blessed Placido Riccardi, a priest
of the Order of Saint Benedict, who, tormented by
continual fevers, illnesses, and paralysis,
unfailingly followed regular observance and prayer
and taught others the same exemplary attitude. (†
1915)
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* In Chervonohrad, near L’viv (Ukraine),
Blessed Yosafata (Mykhailyna
Hordashevs’ka), who, in the
Institute of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate
which she founded, dedicated herself to doing good
where there was a greater need. († 1919)
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In Ain Karim, near Jerusalem (Israel),
Saint Marie-Alphonsine
Danil Ghaţţas, founder of the
Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Rosary of
Jerusalem. († 1927)
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* At the Majdanek concentration camp, near Lublin
(Poland), Blessed
Omelian Kovch, eparchial priest and
martyr, who, during the war, was deported to a
concentration camp, achieved eternal life through
the fight of faith. († 1944)
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* At the Dachau concentration camp, in
Oberbayern (Germany),
Blessed Hilari Januszewski, priest
of the Order of the Discalced Friars of Our Lady of
Mount Carmel and martyr, who, during the war, was
deported from Poland to a foreign prison for the
name of Christ, died of tuberculosis while caring
for the sick, leaving a distinguished testimony of
faith and charity. († 1945)
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