ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 17th of March WELCOME! SAINT JOHN SARKANDER, PRIEST AND MARTYR Martyr of the seal of confession, born at Skotschau in Austrian Silesia, December 20, 1576; died at Olmütz, March 17, 1620. In 1603 he merited the title of master of philosophy at Prague, and after four years’ study of theology was ordained priest at Graz. HE WAS MADE PARISH PRIEST He exercised his sacred functions in several places in the Diocese of Olmütz, and was made parish priest (1613) of Boskowitz, and (1616) of Holeschau in Moravia. Since the fifteenth century the sects of the Hussites and of the Bohemian (or United) Brethren had spread rapidly and taken possession of the churches and institutions of the Catholics, but when (1604) Ladislaus Poppel of Lobkowitz bought the estates of Holleschau, he gave the church to the Catholics, and made a Jesuit college out of the house occupied by the Bohemian Brethren. With the aid of the Jesu...