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Perhaps we should start a new thread of saints' days.

I think if you want to copy and paste a post from one thread to another, it depends on if you are using a phone or a computer. On a computer you can right click and select all the text, then copy it to your computer's 'clipboard'. Then in another thread or post, you can 'paste' it in with a right click again.

I astonish myself by failing to see so many posts, but it does reward me when I go back to review what I found and whatever I might have missed.  Perhaps you noticed that St Joseph is also patron of pilots and air travelers, I presume because some 70 acts of his levitations were widely witnessed.  According to Delaney, even Pope Urban VII spoke favorably of him, although he was moved and isolated several times and investigated by the Inquisition.
I hope you are happy and successful at school and blessed by his prayer.

I intended to mention that Father Don was reported to have been marked by a stigmata, although I did not find any description, and I wonder if others can comment further. 
My forgetfulness led me to search my Hardon Dictionary, where I was amazed to read that some 320 people have received stigmata (my edition is dated 1980), and of these more than 60 have been canonized.
Since I'm still here, I was wondering if Don was a title, perhaps something like Dom (Spanish vs Italian?)  Can anyone explain please?

'. . . Pardon my presumption in what I have said to you and am saying; I am constrained by the Sweet Primal Truth to say it. His will, father, is this, and thus demands of you. It demands that you execute justice on the abundance of many iniquities committed by those who are fed and pastured in the garden of Holy Church; declaring that brutes should not be fed with the food of men. Since He has given you authority and you have assumed it, you should use your virtue and power: and if you are not willing to use it, it would be better for you to resign what you have assumed; more honour to God and health to your soul would it be.'

St. Catherine of Siena, 'Letter to Pope Gregory XI'

'When the body sins through material things, it has the bodily virtues to teach it self-restraint. Similarly, when the intellect sins through impassioned conceptual images, it has the virtues of the soul to instruct it, so that by seeing things in a pure and dispassionate way, it too may learn self-restraint.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

In Poland Good Friday is a day of fasting and penance.   
The faithful participate in the Stations of the Cross, commemorating the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus.

I regret that my previous post makes little sense.  I had just written a reply to a post by Curious, which referred to St Patrick.  Then I ran a search for other St Patrick related posts and thought I could copy Odiambo's post right below the post by Curious.  Is it obvious what I did wrong?  I've often hoped to continue the great Odiambo thread, keeping the feast dates that haven't changed, but I guess I can't figure out how.

Our Parish calendar still shows the fish symbol on Fridays of Lent.

[Saint. Patrick ( 385-461)]

Saint. Patrick ( 385-461)

the patron saint of Ireland.

Saint Patrick is one of the most beloved of all saints. His given name was Patricius Magonus Sucatus. He was born around the year 385 in the then Roman province of Britain, somewhere along the west coast of Britain. He was a Roman citizen. His father was Calpurnius, a deacon and his grandfather was Potitus, a priest (apparently it was still not uncommon for deacons and priests to marry). Patrick’s parents were wealthy. Patrick therefore grew up in the church.
When Patrick was sixteen, Irish raiders invaded his home town, seized a great number of its inhabitants, including Patrick and carried them across the Irish Sea into Ireland and sold into slavery.
Patrick was bought by a landowner of Slemish, near Ballymena in County Antrim. He served as a herdsman. As a slave, he was poorly fed and clothed. Moreover, he longed for his home
During the six years he spent in servitude, Patrick underwent a profound religious transformation. In the year 407, he was commanded in a dream to escape, and he did just that by walking nearly 200 miles to the Irish coast where he found a ship departing and was allowed to board. The ship was full of Irish wolfhounds on its way to the continent. They arrive in France after spending two months with the crew.
He went to a monastery in the south of France: St. Honorat.
After a number of years Patrick returned to Britain and was warmly welcomed by the remaining relatives who treatsd him like a son and bid him to never leave again. But Ireland was calling him. Patrick reported that he experienced a second revelation—an angel in a dream told him to return to Ireland as a missionary. Soon after, Patrick began religious training, a course of study that lasted more than fifteen years. After his ordination as a priest, and later, bishop, he was sent to Ireland with a dual mission: to minister to the few Christians already living in Ireland and to begin to convert the Irish.
Familiar with the Irish language and culture, Patrick chose to incorporate traditional ritual into his lessons of Christianity instead of attempting to eradicate native Irish beliefs. For instance, he used bonfires to celebrate Easter since the Irish were used to honoring their gods with fire. He superimposed a sun, a powerful Irish symbol, onto the Christian cross to create what is now called a Celtic cross, so that veneration of the symbol would seem more natural to the Irish, and used the three-leaved shamrock to explain the concept of the Holy Trinity.

Patrick faced opposition, however, mostly from Druids and their followers. He was robbed, beaten, imprisoned and tortured. Once he was taken a slaved again. Twelve times his enemies nearly killed him. He wrote: “Daily I expect murder, fraud, or captivity, but I fear none of these things. I have cast myself into the hands of God Almighty, who rules everywhere, as the prophet says: ‘Cast your cares upon God, and He shall sustain you.’”
By the end of his life, Patrick had traveled across the five kingdoms of the island and had won the conversion of virtually the whole of the Irish people. He established his home base in Armagh.
Before his death, Saint Patrick wrote thus: “ Hence did it come to pass in Ireland that those who never had a knowledge of God… have now been made a people of the Lord, and are called Sons of God”.
His two primary achievements were the promotion of a native clergy and the careful integration of the Christian faith with native Irish-Celtic culture.
He used a simple, sincere biblical style of teaching that won both hearts and minds.
Patrick was the author of Confessio- a moving testimony of his personal faith. He also wrote Letters to Coroticus, a troublesome chieftain.
Legends about Saint Patrick abound. The most famous is perhaps that of his expulsion of snakes from Ireland. Scientists are however certain that there never were snakes on the island.
Patrick died on March 17, 461. This day is now celebrated as St. Patrick’s Day.

Patrick’s spectacular success in converting Ireland from a pagan to a Christian land, as well as the body of legend that developed around his work have ensured that he is commemorated in Ireland and wherever Irish immigrants have settled throughout the world—from Boston to Singapore.

Saint Patrick,
Pray for us!

Please forgive the discrepancies in my top of the head narrative.  We have wonderful posts here.

Welcome Curious, I hope you will enjoy your journey in this Saints-works forum as much as I have.  Please don't hesitate to ask any questions you may have about how things work here.  Almost every source I have about St Patrick describes him as the son of an English pastor (many priests were allowed to be married in those days) who was captured at about the age of 6 by raiding Irish seamen, and held as a slave in Ireland for about 6 six years until he escaped and managed to stow away on a boat headed for England.  He resolved to become a priest and return to convert Ireland as much as he could.  I'm writing off the top of my head, but you can click the search button on the top bar to see a summary of comments here about St Patrick.  Enjoy.