| 1282-03-02 St. Agnes of Prague, a member of Czech royalty who became a Poor Clare, died. |
| 1716-03-03 Observant friars Bls. Liberatus Weiss, Samuele Marzorati and Michele Pio were martyred for the faith in Gondar, Ethiopia. |
| 1240-03-04 Bl. Sylvester of Assisi, one of the original companions of St. Francis and the first priest to join the Order of Friars Minor, died. |
| 1928-03-04 Paul Sabatier, a French protestant scholar whose discovery in 1898 of the text Mirror of Perfection led to the modern critical historical investigation of the Franciscan movement, died. |
| 1250-03-05 Pope Gregory IX issued the papal bull Is qui ecclesiam which declared the newly built Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi as the "Caput et Mater" of the Franciscan Order. |
| 1251-03-05 St. Rose of Viterbo, a Third Order Franciscan penitent, died. |
| 1447-03-06 St. Colette of Corbie, the founder of the Poor Clares of the Colettine reform, died in Ghent. |
| 1993-03-07 A Conventual Franciscan mission opened in Roskilde, Denmark. |
| 1238-03-08 Malik al-Kamil, the Moslem Sultan who encountered St. Francis in 1219, died. His rule was characterized by a tolerance for Christianity. |
| 1221-03-10 Friar Peter Catani, the first Vicar of the Franciscan Order, died. |
| 2001-03-11 Pope John Paul II beatified six Conventual Franciscan friars martyred during the Spanish Civil war, between July and August of 1936. Their names are Bls. Alfonso Lopez, Miguel Remon, Modesto Vegas, Dionisio Vincente, Francisco Remon and Pedro Rivera. Also beatified were four members of the Order of Friars Minor, twelve members of the Capuchin Franciscans, five members of the Capuchin Poor Clares, and twenty-three members of the Third Order Capuchins. |
| 1588-03-14 Pope Sixtus V, a Franciscan Pope, declared St. Bonaventure "Doctor of the Church" and gave him the title, the Seraphic Doctor. |
| 1995-03-14 Franciszek Gajowniczek, the man for whom Conventual Franciscan priest, St. Maximilian Kolbe gave his life at Auschwitz in 1941, died in Brzeg, Poland. |
| 1212-03-18 St. Francis of Assisi received the religious profession of St. Clare of Assisi, in the Cathedral of Assisi. |
| 1273-03-18 Lady Jacopa de Roma, the Secular Franciscan who was present at the death of St. Francis of Assisi in 1226, died. |
| 1865-03-18 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the formal deed returning the Santa Barbara Mission to the Catholic Church. Its administration was placed under the Observant Franciscans. |
| 1227-03-19 Cardinal Hugolino Conti, the second Cardinal-protector of the Franciscan Order, was elected Pope and took the name of Gregory IX. |
| 1289-03-19 John of Parma, the Minister General of the Franciscan Order who was forced to resign in 1253 for his support of the Spiritual Franciscans, died in Camerino, Italy. He was succeeded as Minister General by St. Bonaventure. |
| 1992-03-20 Franciscan philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus, the Subtle Doctor and primary defender of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, was beatified by Pope John Paul II. |
| 1985-03-25 The latest revision of the Constitution of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual took effect. |
| 1228-03-29 Simon Puzarelli presented to Brother Elias of Cortona a plot of land destined to become the site of the Basilica of St. Francis, in Assisi. |
| 1889-03-31 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, arrived in the United States. She was a member of the Franciscan Third Order and her new community was founded in a former Franciscan friary. |
| 1782-03-31 Observant friar Bl. Junipero Serra founded Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, CA. (USA). |
| 1893-03-31 The Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate was founded in Tuquerres, Columbia by Mother Caritas Brader. |
| 1863-03-13 The Franciscan Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels was founded by Mother Mary Rose (Margaretha) Flesch, in Waldbreitbach, Germany. |
| 1992-03-25 The Institute of the Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata founded in 1954 by Conventual Franciscan Fr. Luigi M. Faccenda (+2005), was recognized as a Secular Institute by Pope John Paul II. |
| 1653-03-11 Observant Franciscan priest St. John Kearney was martyred for the faith in Clonmel, Ireland. |
| 1550-03-14 Pope Julius III issued the papal bull Exponi nobis which approved the new congregation of the Reformed Conventual Franciscans. |
| 1562-03-10 Rodolfo Pio de Carpi, the Cardinal Protector of the Franciscan Order, dissolved the Reformed Conventual Franciscans. |
| 1943-03-30 Bl. Mary Restituta Kafka, a Franciscan Sister of Charity, was martyred for the faith by the Nazis, in Austria. |