Pope Saint Zachary

Berkeley, Saturday, March 7, 2025 2:41 AM

Feast day: March 15

Day 1, March 7. Pope Saint Zachary succeeded pope Gregory III in 741. He was a man of singular meekness and goodness. [1]

Day 2, March 7. 9:36 PM Pope Zacharias, was elected pope on December 3, 741, until his death on March 15, 752. He came from a Greek ancestry or family. He was born circa 679 in either Athens, or to a Greek family in Calabria. Pope Zacharias worked closely to pope Greek III. He was a deacon during that reign or papacy. He was the last Greek Pope. Pope Zacharias translated the Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great into Greek. [2]

Pope Saint Zacharias. Pray for me.

Day 3, March 9. Pope Saint Zacharias was an excellent administrator. Full of wisdom. Good jugdement. Excellent persuasiveness. Gentle. Compassionate. He did great and significant deals with the Kings of Lombard and with Emperor Leo III. See the wars and issues in reference [2]

Pope Saint Zacharias. Good to learn from gifts, talents, of wisdom, personal real connection to people regardless their status, and regardless yours. Gives of speech and persuasion. Please interce to the Lord to grant me those gifts of courage, work capacity, good speech, true teller all time, and particularly persuasiveness if needed, in seeking to true, as true is love?

Day 4, March 10. 2:40 AM I am reading information about Pope Zacharias form an old book. The Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Although the content is great and highly recommended as a reference material for learning a bit shallow in a concise well researched way about the Saints, I learned the other day that old books can release heavy metals. So I am a bit concern if that would be related to the ringing ears, or just the commute to campus.

Pope Zacharias was determined Pope soon after his term. I will research about the Pope’s miracles. From Butler’s book i learned that in addition of his great wisdom and excellent administrative capacities, he took care of the poor. He also had plenty of compassion. For instance, after nuns were expelled from the Constantinople Byzantine empire, he looked for providing housing to them, probably in Rome. [See the right story in reference 3].

Pope Zacharias. Please grant a gigantic heart and brain, to stay focused and with love, each day of my life. I ask that you intercede to the Lord in that prayer. Also let the Lord know, that I am very grateful, with humble heart, and happy to have lived one day more of life, despite a few faults, and irresponsibilities in the schedule. Lord grant me peace, knowledge, wisdom, passion, energy, and courage.

Day 5, March 11. 00:05 AM Whoever reads this, please leave a comment? Anyways. One lives for God, and thanks for God. One lives to love the Church and the Eucharist. So, one has to work harder in all duties. And keep the Church alive wherever we go. Of course, the Lord is fully alive, and here.

He supported Boniface (680-754), Apostle of Germany. [3] There might be more details. I will see what else I get from the life of the popes’ book, by Fr. John O’Malley.

Day 6, March 11. Reading about four pages of the History of Popes by John O’Malley. There might have been several wars during Saint Zacharias time. The Arabs took or Moors took most of Spain. Leo III had some wars, or required to break icons, or something like that. In terms of war the Pope blessed Pepin as King of the Franks, or probably Stephen did it. Still something like that. I think Pope Zacharias approved Pepin as King of the Franks, which was not usual. King Pepin donated a certain amount of land to the Vatican, which became the Papal States. This was the first time after Constantine The Great. So there was a precedent. {Not exact citations but Read [4] pp. 55-59. Fr. O’Maley was one of my favorite writers and dedicated persons ever.]

Things to ask are the public office of Pope Zacharias. If his duties were seen as miracles?

Pope Zacharias intercede to the Lord to please give the strength and courage, and energy, and health to travel in good conditions everyday. To not get too tired about that and to fulfill my duties.

Day 7, March 12. Pope Zacharias, seems that, convinced the King of the Lombards to return or not invade Ravenna, or something like that. He also held two synods. [See more details in ref 5].

Pope Zacharias, help me to be a daily efficient worker, and to not be too worried about the hits on my head. Help me to heal those, if there is something wrong. Intercede to the Lord to guide with my duties and writing.

Day 8, March 14. On March 12 I tried to start two more novenas, plus all the work I have to do. I might have ended too tired that day, but it is not bad. Things are quite clear thanks to the Lord!

To honor Pope Zacharias, I did a quick search on the web, beyond the sources I have already cited. I see that there is a book, a tragedy, published in 1919, where the author dedicated some of his work, or rather wrote about Saint Boniface, the Lombards, and Pope Saint Zacharias.

My additional thing is that I will continue with this thing. There might a few novenas, which I would edit more often even if the day is pass. Those might be yearly novenas, i.e. Saint Joseph, Saint Augustine, for now Saint Patrick, the Little Flower, might Saint Anthony of Padua, probably Saint John Henry Newman, definitely a good Christmas novena.

The Lord is good. And one also must be good with one’s duties, among all this technology that is available.

To what extend one has a direction of the day to day. Probably not too much in the global big picture, but yes in the sense of duty of the day.

I can sense respect, dedication, understanding, vocation, passion, from Pope Saint Zacharias. The Lord is who appoint those virtues on the right person. Please my Lord, as my great grand pa use to pray:

Cristo Crucificado, ponte delante de mí;
Cristo Crucificado, ablanda los corazones que están en contra de mí;
Cristo Crucificado, habla y responde por mí.

My great grandpa used to pray that prayer probably between 1900 and the 1950s, or who knows. I can see how much was the dependance in the Lord, but also the Benedict rule, might: Ora et Labora!

Saint Pope Zacharias I cannot write every single petition in here, but guide my life, and bring to the Lord those petitions, which are in my heart and my mind.

Lord have mercy, guide me on my life. Thy Will Be Done!

Day 9, March 15. Happy feast Day Saint Pope Zacharias.

A bit of my day. Good in terms of progress. But several bottle necks in trying to connect to a specific software and set up a remote connection which is still in progress.

Knowledge skills. But the basis to provide a lab table to work on something is very important.

Lord, please guide my life.

I cannot do the other two novenas I attempted to start but I will continue with the ones on this cycle of ten days.

Please help with the technical difficulties. I appreciate the skills to find solutions. Please guide me when I need to ask for help.

Lord, thank you. And please provide me with wisdom. Please, thy Will Be Done.

References

[1] https://www.ecatholic2000.com/butler/lives090.shtml

[2] Kelly, J. N. D., and Michael Walsh. 2015. “Zacharias, St.” In A Dictionary of Popes. : Oxford University Press. Date Accessed Mar. 8 2026 <https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191795459.001.0001/acref-9780191795459-e-100>.

[3] Thurston, Herbert S.J. and Donald Attwater. 1963 Butler’s Lives of the Saint. Complete Edition. Edited, revised and supplemented by Herbert Thurston, S.J. and Donald Attwater. PJ Kenedy & Sons. New York.

[4] O’Malley, John. S.J. 2011. History of the Popes. From Peter to the Present. Sheed & Ward.

[5] Choy, Renie. 2022. “Zacharias, St.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. : Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199642465.001.0001/acref-9780199642465-e-7863.

[6] Field, Michael. 1919. “In the Name of Time a Tragedy”. The Poetry Workshop. London. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72364/pg72364.txt