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March 25
Saint of the day:
Saint Dismas
Known as the 1st Saint
Patron Saint of Prisoners (especially condemned), Funeral directors, Repentant thieves, Merizo, Guam, San Dimas, Mexico
The story of Saint Dismas
All that is known of Dismas is that he is the Good Thief crucified with Christ on Calvary. The other thief is known as Gestas. A completely unsubstantiated myth from the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy that enjoyed great popularity in the West during the Middle Ages had two thieves who held up the Holy Family on the way to Egypt. Dismas bought off Gestas with forty drachmas to leave them unmolested, whereupon the Infant predicted that they would be crucified with Him in Jerusalem, and that Dismas would accompany Him to Paradise. His feast day is March 25th.
Luke 23:39-43
39 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.” 40 But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” 43 And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penitent_thiefhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penitent_thief
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Golgotha Hill outside Jerusalem, Israel
