Saint March 25 : Saint Dismas the Good Thief on the Cross beside Jesus - Known as the 1st Canonized Saint - Patron Saint of Prisoners and Funeral Directors

Saint Dismas - The Good Thief - Known as the 1st Canonized Saint ( SEE Prayer below the Video)
Patron Saint of Prisoners (especially condemned), Funeral directors, Repentant thieves, Merizo, Guam, San Dimas, Mexico
Biography - Dismas is the Good Thief crucified with Christ on Calvary. The other thief is known as Gestas. A legend says that they 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.
Biblical account - 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.”

Prayer To St Dismas  Saint Dismas, you alone were Canonized a Saint by Christ Himself; you were assured of a place in Heaven with Him, “This day” because you confessed your sins to Him on Calvary; and you were truly sorry for them as you hung beside Him on a cross; you who opened the Heart of Jesus in mercy and forgiveness even before the centurion’s spear tore it asunder; you whose face was close to that of Jesus in His last agony, to offer Him a word of comfort; you who knew how to pray, teach me the words to say to gain pardon for my sins; and you who are close to Him now in Heaven, pray to Him for me that I shall never again desert Him, but that at the close of my life I may hear the words He addressed to you: “This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise.” Amen. (May be said as a Novena for 9 days with an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be, each day)