Saint of the Day for March 3
Saint of the Day
Liturgical calendar Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin
Katharine Drexel
American Catholic sister and saint
Katharine Drexel, SBS was an American Catholic religious sister and educator. In 1891, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious congregation serving Black and Indigenous Americans. Canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000, Drexel was the second person born in the United States to be declared a saint and the first who was born a U.S. citizen.
Other saints and blesseds of the day
- WinwaloeFounder of Landévennec Abbey (c. 460-532)
- Basiliscusearly 4th century Greek martyr
- NonWelsh saint; mother of St David (5th c.)
- Marinus of CaesareaRoman soldier and Christian martyr
- Cleonicusearly 4th-century martyr of Pontus
- Camillalegendary 5th-century saint
- Asterius of CaesareaRoman senator and Christian martyr
Bible Verse of the Day
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
On March 3 the Church remembers several saints and blesseds. Every day of the year has its saints: browse them all in the saints calendar.