✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: March 4

St. Casimir

Prince · 1458–1484

Patron of Poland, Lithuania

A prince of Poland who refused to lead an unjust war, declined a crown offered by rebels, and lived a life of prayer, charity, and purity before dying of illness at twenty-five.

Offered the throne of Hungary by rebellious nobles, he turned it down as unjust — and is honored today as the patron of Poland and Lithuania.

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