Saints of 12 March
The feast, the saints of the day, and the Roman Martyrology for 12 March.
Feasts in 2026
Thursday 12 March 2026.
- Ordinary Form: Weekday in Lent. Feria, violet. Also kept: St Maximilian of Tebessa.
- 1962 calendar: Thursday of the Third Week of Lent. Third class, violet. Also kept: S. Gregory the Great, Pope, Confessor and Doctor of the Church.
Feasts that depend on the date of Easter fall on a different day each year.
Saints of the day
- St Maximilian of Tebessa. Conscientious martyr who refused to bear arms.
Roman Martyrology
St Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the Church
At Rome, St Gregory, pope and eminent doctor of the Church, who on account of his illustrious deeds, and the conversion of the English to the faith of Christ was snrnamed the Great, and called the Apostle of England.
St Mamilian of Rome
Also at Rome, St Mamflian. martyr.
St Peter, chamberlain (Nicomedia)
At Xicomedia, the passion of the blessed martyr Peter, chamberlain of the emperor Diocletian. For complaining openly of the atrocious torinflicted on the martyrs, he was, by order of the emperor, first suspended and a long time scourged, then, salt and vinegar being rubbed into his wounds, he was burned on a grate over a slow fire. Thus did he become truly the heir of St. Peter's name and faith.
St Egdunus, priest
In the same city, St. Egdunus, priest, and seven others, who were strangled one by one, on successive days, to terrify those who remained.
St Theophanes the Confessor
At Constantinople, St. Theophanes, who gave up great wealth to embrace poverty in the monastic state. By Leo the Armenian he was kept in prison two years for the worship of holy images, then exiled in Samothracia, where, overwhelmed with afflictions, he breathed his last and wrought many miracles.
St Bernard of Capua
At Capua, St. Bernard, bishop and confessor.
From the 1916 English edition of the Roman Martyrology, which is in the public domain. Saints canonised since then are added with a short note.
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