ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 6th of March WELCOME! SAINT FRIDOLIN OF SÄCKINGEN, ABBOT Saint Fridolin was an Irish or Scottish abbot, who, leaving his own country, founded several monasteries in Austrasia, Burgundy, and Switzerland: the last was that of Säckingen, in an isle in the Rhine, now one of the four forest towns belonging to the house of Austria. In this monastery he died, in 538. THE TUTELAR PATRON OF THE SWISS CANTON OF GLARUS He is the tutelar patron of the Swiss canton of Glarus, who carry in their coat of arms his picture in the Benedictine habit, though he was not of that order. Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA'S (1913) ENTRY ON ST FRIDOLIN St Fridolin was a missionary, the founder of the Monastery of Säckingen, Baden (sixth century). In accordance with a later tradition, St Fridolin is venerated as the first Irish missionary who laboured among the Alamanni on the Upper Rhine, in the time...