Also the Commemoration of St. Pudentiana, Virgin.

Mass at 7:00am and 12:10pm.

Proper on pages 1276, 981, 1057.  Preface for Easter on page 881.

St. Peter founded a branch of the Benedictine Order: the Celestines.  Dragged forth from the solitude he loved, he was made Supreme Pontiff; he resigned the papacy in order to continue his hermit life.  He died A.D. 1296.

St. Pudentiana, like her sister the holy martyr Praxedes, consecrated her virginity to the heavenly Spouse.  She died A.D. 163.