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| March 1, David. (Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544) Having established numerous monasteries and guarded the Christian faith in Wales in the 6th Century, David is honored as the patron saint of Wales.
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| March 2, Chad. (Bishop of Lichfield, 672) Chad served as Bishop first of York and later of Mercia and Northumbria and followed the apostolic example of traveling throughout his diocese on foot. Chad is known for his humility, modest, and zealous teaching.
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| March 3, John and Charles Wesley (Priests, 1791 and 1788). John and Charles Wesley founded the revival called "Methodism" in England, whose members fervently followed the worship and discipline of the Prayer Book. John Wesley, not a bishop, ordained priests in the United States, against the sole right of a bishop to ordain. These irregular ordinations set the foundation of the separation of the Methodist Church from the Episcopal Church.
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| March 7: Perpetua and her Companions. (Martyrs at Carthage, 202) Perpetua and her companions, Felicitas, Revocatus, Secundulus and Saturninus were arrested by the Romans while preparing for baptism for refusing to present a sacrifice to the Roman emperor. They could not do so because, as confessing Christians, they believed in the one Lord Jesus Christ. Perpetua demonstrated the strength of her faith by standing firm in the facing death.
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Lectionary readings to commemorate Perpetua and her companions.
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| March 9, Gregory (Bishop of Nyssa, c. 394). Gregory, along with Basil the Great and Gergory of Nazianzus, is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers. (Cappadocia is in modern-day Turkey.) Gregory influenced the Christian sensibility of the Trinity as three persons in one being and the eternal nature of God.
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Gregory the Great (Bishop of Rome, 604). Gregory the Great served as the Bishop of Rome, "servant of the servants of God." Gregory the Great was known for his acts of charity and has left a legacy of chant and liturgical reform that moved the location of the "Our Father" to just before the fraction.
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Lectionary readings to commemorate Gregory the Great.
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March 17, Patrick, (Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461) served as missionary, spreading the gospel throughout Ireland in the 5th Century. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.
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March 18: Cyril (Bishop of Jerusalem, 386). Cyril is thought to have instituted the observances of Palm Sunday and Holy Week in a form that is reflected in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Cyrial also wrote the earliest surviving catechetical materials written to teach during Lent those seeking to be baptized during the Great Easter Vigil.
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March 19: Saint Joseph. The gospel according to Matthew describes Joseph as the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus. The gospel writer tells us Jospeh was a righteous man to whom an angel appeared proclaiming that the child whom she had conceived is from the Holy Spirit. Jospeh is an example of a faithful and loving husband and father.
Lectionary readings to commemorate Joseph.
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March 20: Cuthbert (Bishop of Lindisfarne, 687). Cuthbert served the Church in Northeast England. He entered a monastery after a vision of angels while praying one night while tending sheep. As monk and bishop, he visited and taught the poor.
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March 22: James DeKoven. (Priest, 1879). James DeKoven was a leader of the Anglo-Catholic movement of the late 19th Century that defended the use of candles incense, and vestments and liturgical gestures such as bowing at the cross.
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| March 23: Gregory the Illuminator. (Bishop and Missionary of Armenia, c 332). Gregory is the founder and patron saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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| March 25: The Annunciation of Our Lord. On this day, we celebrate the day that the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the bearer of God in the world (theotokos).
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| March 27: Charles Henry Brent (Bishop of the Phillipines, and of Western New York, 1929).
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| March 29: John Keble (Priest, 1866) was a leader of the Oxford Movement that sought to strengthen the recognition of the Church of England as historically tied, along with the Roman Church, to the early Christian Church established by the apostles.
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| March 31: John Donne (Priest, 1631) Johne Donne was a great English poet who served as Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. His sermons at an open-air pulpit near St. Paul's drew large crowds of people.
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