ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 31st of March SAINT GUIDO, ABBOT OF POMPOSA Saint Guido, also called Wido, (French: Guion or Guy), Abbot of Pomposa in Italy, was a contemporary of bishop Saint Ulrich of Augsburg , as well as of Saint Peter Damian . He was born about the year 970 in the village of Casemar, not far from Ravenna. After his studies he went under the direction of a holy hermit called Martin (Martinus), who sent him to the nearby monastery of Pomposa three years later, which was then headed by Abbot William (Guilielmus), who went into solitude not long after. His successor Johannes Angelus having died, Saint Guido was then elected abbot, an office he only accepted on the orders of his teacher Martin. This Benedictine monastery of Pomposa, which is situated on the Po Volano (Padus de Volane), a so-called arm of the Po, not far from Ferrara, is now completely in ruins. Under Saint Guido, however, who ruled it for 48 years, it made tremend...