OTHER SAINTS - 22 MARCH

Saints celebrated on the 22nd of March

OTHER SAINTLY PEOPLE REMEMBERED ON MARCH 22

OBSCURE SAINTS

Saint Faria (March 22) is particularly venerated by the Copts and Ethiopians.

Saint Renula (Relindis) (March 22 or February 6), Virgin and Abbess.

Brianus [Brian], (March 22 or March 12), king and martyr in Ireland; he seems to be the one who perished in a battle with the Danes at Cluaintarb, but he was in fact victorious on this occasion because the battle resulted in freeing the Irish from the Danish yoke.

Dagamus, (March 22), a bishop in Scotland who, at the encouragement of the Pope, instituted the Roman Easter in his parish.

Petronia (March 22), a martyr supposedly killed by the Vandals, whose relics are in the Church of St Gabinus at Turritano in Sardinia.

Dima, (March 22), a saintly man in Ireland, but of whom no further details are known.

Degithea, (March 22), a virgin born in Ireland who occurs in the Martyrology of Tamlact.

Genta (March 22), abbess of Vaufleur or Florival (Vallis florida) in Brabant. She died in 1247. She is counted by some among the "blessed" and by others among the "venerable".

Haitmundus, (March 22), Bishop of Sherburn. Also called Hamundus.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)

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