11 MARCH

. . . .is the feast day of Blessed John Larke, "priest and rector of Chelsea, [who] suffered martyrdom in the reign of Henry VIII for refusing to take the unlawful oath of royal supremacy. He was the friend of St. Thomas More, and was put to death on March 11, 1544." The epistle for his feast day is proper: 1 Peter 4. 13-19 "If you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, that when His glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy."

Also on this day the Scottish St. Constantine is commemorated. "St. Constantine was a British prince who renounced the world, and retired into a monastery in Wales. After being ordained priest, he was sent as a missionary to the North of Scotland. He converted many Picts to the Faith of Christ, and built a monastery at Govan, in Lanarkshire. He was cruelly put to death in extreme old age, whilst preaching to Gospel in Kintyre. He lived in the sixth century." [all quotations from the 4 vol. St. Andrew's Missal]

In Ireland, it is feast of St. Aengus, called the Culdee (or Ceili De, the friend of God). He was the first to compile a comprehensive volume on the lives of the Irish saints.