Saints and feasts of March

The table below shows the saints celebrated in the Office, as well as selected additional saints of interest for the Monastic, Extraordinary Form Roman (1960) and Ordinary Form calendars.  

If you click on the links, you can find out more about the saint or feast in question.

Note that not every feast is celebrated every year, or celebrated in the same way: where a feast coincides with a Sunday or a moveable feast, one must consult the 'two tables' in the rubrics.

In addition, during Lent, under the 1960 rules, Class III feasts are reduced to a commemoration at lauds only.  However, the provisions of Cum Sanctissima allows these to be celebrated as Class III feasts on an optional basis. 

DATE	1960 BENEDICTINE	MONASTIC AND OTHER LOCAL FEASTS	EF ROMAN	OF
1		St David (Wales)
2		St Chad
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4			St Casimir (III)	St Casimir (Com)
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6	SS PERPETUA AND FELICITY (III)		SS Perpetua and Felicity (III)*	SS Perpetua&Felicity (Com)
7	ST THOMAS AQUINAS (III)		St Thomas Aquinas (III)*
8		Ss John of God and Camillus de Lellis (mem, Gower)	St John of God (III)	St John of God (Com)
9	ST FRANCES OF ROME (MEM)		St Frances of Rome (III)*	St Frances (Com)
10	THE FORTY MARTYRS (MEM)		The Forty Martyrs (III)
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12	ST GREGORY I (II)	Start of the Novena to St Benedict	St Gregory I (III)
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14		St Matilda
15		SS Longinus, Leocritia, Matrona and Louise de Marillac
16		Canadian Jesuit Martyrs
17			St Patrick (III)
18	ST CYRIL OF JERUSALEM (MEM)	St Patrick (Aust&NZ)	St Cyril of Jerusalem (MEM)
19	ST JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BVM (I)		St Joseph (I)	St Joseph
20		SS Cuthbert and Wulfram
21	ST BENEDICT (I)		St Benedict (III)
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23				St Turibius de Mogrovejo (com)
24		St Gabriel	St Gabriel (III)
25	ANNUNCIATION OF THE BVM (I)		Annunciation (I)
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27	ST JOHN DAMASCENE (MEM)		St John Damascene (III)
28		St John Capistrano	St John Capistran (III)
29		St Eustacius
30		St John Climacus
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Key: Class I = I, Class II = II, Class III= III, Mem = Memorial, com=Commemoration