ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 9th of March WELCOME! SAINT PACIAN, BISHOP OF BARCELONA, CONFESSOR Saint Pacian was a great ornament of the church in the fourth century. He was illustrious by birth, and had been engaged in marriage in the world. His son Dexter was raised to the first dignities in the empire, being high chamberlain to the emperor Theodosius and præfectus-prætorio under Honorius. AFTER SOME TIME IN THE WORLD, HE RENOUNCED IT St Pacian having renounced the world, was made bishop in 373. St Jerome, who dedicated to him his Catalogue of illustrious men, extols his eloquence and learning, and more particularly the chastity and sanctity of his life. We have his Exortation to Penance, and three letters to Sympronianus, a Novatian nobleman, on Penance, and on the name of Catholic; also a sermon on Baptism. (From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints) QUOTES BY ST PACIAN "Christian is my name, but Catholic my surname [Christianus mihi ...