4 March
AT Wilna, in Lithuania, blessed Casimir, son of king Casimir, whom the Roman Pontiff, Leo X., placed in the number of the Saints.—At Rome, on the Appian way, during the persecution of Valerian, the birthday of St. Lucius, pope and martyr, who was first exiled for the faith of Christ; but being permitted by divine Providence to return to his church, he suffered martyrdom by decapitation, after having combated the Novatians. His praises have been published by St. Cyprian.—Also, at Rome, on the Appian road, nine hundred holy martyrs, who were buried in the same cemetery as St. Cecilia.— The same day, St. Caius, a member of the imperial household, who was drowned in the sea with twenty-seven others.—At Nicomedia, in the reign of the emperor Diocletian, the holy martyr Adrian and twenty-three others, who endured martyrdom by having their limbs crushed. St. Adrian is especially commemorated on the 8th of September, when his body was conveyed to Rome.—Also, the matryrdom of the Saints Archelaus, Cyril, and Photius.—In Chersonesus, the passion of the saintly bishops Basil, Eugenius, Agathodorus, Elpidius, Ætherius, Capito, Ephrem, Nestor, and Arcadius.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins.
Thanks be to God.