ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 23rd of March SAINT PROCOPIUS, ABBOT Abbot Procopius is the first Bohemian saint to be included in the number of saints by a papal bull. This happened on July 4, 1204 ( Pope Innocent III ). In the following year he was nominated patron saint of Bohemia, in which capacity he is still honoured to this day. Thereupon the monastery church at Sazawa (formerly dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and Saint John the Baptist), was given his name instead. The saint's holiness and subsequent fame was founded on a solitary life hidden in God, which he had sought and cultivated from childhood, and from which he emerged only for the glory of God and the good of his fellow men. Born in A.D. 990 in the village of Chotaun (Chotum, Chottum), situated between Bohemian Brod and Kaurzim, he first had been a diocesan priest. Through association with a devout disciple of Saint Benedict, Procopius then became a hermit to be able to serve God more perfe...