Saints Simplicius, Pope, Macarius of Jerusalem, the Scottish martyr John Ogilvie and the Mexican Elias del Socorro, also a martyr, are included in the Catholic saints' calendar for March 10. St. Simplicius, when the Western Empire was reaching its last days, was bishop of Rome (468-483). As pope, consoled to the afflicted and confirmed in the faith to the faithful. He restored and built churches in Rome, and prevented the destruction of works of art.
St. Macarius, bishop of Jerusalem, obtained that the Holy Places were restored and enriched with basilicas by Emperor Constantine the Great and his mother, St. Helena (325). He was opposed to Arianism and participated in the Council of Nicea. The Scotsman St. John Ogilvie, Jesuit priest and martyr, lived in hiding and took pastoral care of the faithful until he was condemned and martyred under King James I.
Santos Cayo, Alejandro, Victor, María Eugenia de Jesus
Saints Gaius and Alexander were martyred in Phrygia (present-day Turkey), at the end of the 2nd or beginning of the 3rd century. St. Victor suffered martyrdom in North Africa, during the persecution of Emperor Decius (250). St. Augustine dedicated one of his sermons to him. The Blessed Elias del Socorroa priest of the Order of the Friars of St. Augustine, was persecuted and martyred for secretly carrying out his priestly ministry, near the city of Cortázar, Mexico. When he was shot he shouted: Long live Christ the King (1928).
The French Saint María Eugenia de Jesús Milleret was born in Metz in 1817 and was baptized even though her family was not a believer. Her father went bankrupt, the marriage broke up and, already in Paris, her mother died and she was left alone at the age of 15. At the age of 19, she was converted to God following Father Lacordaire's conferences at Notre-Dame. Three years later she founded the contemplative and apostolic congregation of the Religious of the Assumption for the human and Christian education of young girls. She died in 1898 and was canonized by Benedict XVI in 2007.
