March 23.
St. Alphonsus Turibius, Abp. of Lima, A. D. 1606. Sts. Victorian, &c. A. D. 484. St. Edelwald, A. D. 699.
St. Edelwald.
This was an English benedictine monk of Rippon, who became a hermit, and was buried by St. Cuthbert in St. Peter’s church, at Lindisfarne.
Chronology.
1801. Paul, emperor of Russia, was strangled at St. Petersburg.
FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Peerless Daffodil. Narcissus incomparabilis.
Dedicated to St. Alphonsus.