viaticum and extreme unction, and promised to pay all his debts and to provide for all his poor. The saint expired on his knees, before the altar, on the 8th of March, in 1550, at the age of fifty-five. He was buried by the archbishop, and all the clergy, both secular and regular, accompanied by the court, the nobles, and the whole city, with the utmost pomp. He was honoured by many miracles, beatified by Urban VIII., in 1630, and canonized by Alexander VIII., in 1690. His relics were translated into the church of his brethren in 1664. His Order of Charity to serve the sick was approved of by pope Pius V. [Illustration: Jesus Christ in the Character of a Pilgrim accepting the Hospitality of two Dominicans. From a Fresco by Fra Angelico at Florence.] March 9. S. PACIAN, _B. of Barcelona, in Spain, before_ A.D. 390. S. GREGORY NYSSEN, _B.C. in Cappadocia, circ._A.D. 390. S. BOSA, _B. in Northumbria_, A.D. 705. SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS, _App. of the Sclaves, 9th cent._ S. VITALIS OF SICILY, _Ab._, A.D. 994. S. CATHARINE OF BOLOGNA, _V. in Italy_, A.D. 1463. S. FRANCES OF ROME, _W._, A.D. 1440. S. PACIAN, B. OF BARCELONA. (BEFORE A.D. 390.) [Roman Martyrology, and those of Ado, Notker, &c. Authority:--Mention by S. Jerome in his Ecclesiastical Writers, c. 106, 107, 132.] Very little is known of this Spanish bishop, except that he was the author of some short works, of which one, named Cerbus, is lost. His "Epistles against the Novatians," his "Call to Penitence," and "Book on Baptism," addressed to catechumens, are extant. His son, Flavius Dexter, probably born before Pacian received episcopal orders, was an intimate friend of S. Jerome. Pacian died at an advanced old age in the reign of Theodosius. S. GREGORY, B. OF NYSSA. (ABOUT A.D. 390.) [Roman Martyrology. Greek Menæa on Jan. 10th; the Coptic Church on Oct. 14th and Nov. 22nd. Authorities:--His own works; S. Gregory Nazianzen, in his letters; Socrates and Theodoret, in their Ecclesiastical Histories.] [Illustration: S. GREGORY OF NYSSA. After Dominichino. March 9.]