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JOSEPH DE LA ROCHE DAILLON, MISSIONARY - 16 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 16th of June WELCOME! JOSEPH DE LA ROCHE DAILLON, MISSIONARY Joseph de la Roche Daillon was a French Catholic missionary to the Huron Indians and a Franciscan Recollet. He landed at Quebec, June 19, 1625, with the first Jesuits who came to New France, and at once set out with the Jesuit  Father Brebeuf for Three Rivers, to meet the Hurons into whose country they hoped to enter. Owing to a report that the Hurons had drowned the Recollet Nicolas Viel, their missionary, the journey was put off.  In 1626 La Roche Daillon was among the Hurons, leaving whom he passed to the Neutral Nation after travelling six days on foot. He remained with them for three months, and at one time barely escaped being put to death. This caused his return to the Hurons. In 1628 he went to Three Rivers with twenty Huron canoes, on their way to trade pelts with the French. From Three Rivers he journeyed to Quebec, and on the taking of the city, in 1629, the
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STEPHEN, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR - 21 OCTOBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 21st of October   WELCOME! STEPHEN, RELIGIOUS AND MARTYR Stephen (Stephanus), remembered on October 21, was a martyr of the Order of  Saint Francis of Assisi   in the East Indies. His name occurs in the Seraphic Martyrology *. (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 385) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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BIGITAN, BISHOP - 10 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 10th of January WELCOME! BIGITAN, BISHOP Bigitan (Bigitanus), remembered on January 10, was a bishop in Scotland. (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 480) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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ARMAND DE LA RICHARDIE, MISSIONARY - 17 MARCH

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 17th of March WELCOME! ARMAND DE LA RICHARDIE, MISSIONARY Armand de la Richardie was born at Perigueux, June 7, 1686. He entered the Society of Jesus at Bordeaux on October 4, 1703, and in 1725 was sent to the Canada mission. He spent the two following years helping Father Pierre Daniel Richer at Lorette, and studying the Huron language.  In 1728 he went to Detroit to re-establish the long-interrupted mission to the dispersed Petun-Hurons in the West. Not a solitary professing Christian did he find, but among the aged not a few had been baptised. The local church was scarcely spacious enough to contain the fervent congregation of practising Hurons. During the night, 24/25 March, 1746, the father was stricken with paralysis, and on July 29 he was placed in an open canoe and thus conveyed to Quebec. In 1747 the Hurons insisted on his returning to restore tranquillity to their nation. The father had almost completely recovered from
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STEPHEN OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, RELIGIOUS - 2 OCTOBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 2nd of October WELCOME! STEPHEN OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, RELIGIOUS Stephanus (October 2), with the surname of the Mother of God [Étienne de la Mère de Dieu], a Carmelite from the province of Rennes, is listed in the order's catalogue *. (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 385) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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LUIS DE LAPUENTE, PRIEST AND WRITER - 16 FEBRUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 16th February WELCOME! VENERABLE LUIS DE LAPUENTE, PRIEST AND WRITER Venerable Luis de Lapuente (also, D'Aponte, de Ponte, Dupont) was born at Valladolid on November 11, 1554. Having entered the Society of Jesus, he studied under the celebrated Suarez, and professed philosophy at Salamanca. Endowed with exceptional talents for government and the formation of young religious, he was forced by impaired health to retire from offices which he had filled with distinction and general satisfaction. The years that followed were devoted to literary composition.  Though not reckoned among Spanish classics, his works are so replete with practical spirituality that they claim for him a place among the most eminent masters of asceticism. Ordained priest in 1580, he became the spiritual director of the celebrated Marina de Escobar, in which office he continued till his death. In 1599 he devoted himself with great charity to the care
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JOHN RANDAL BRADBURNE, MISSIONARY - 5 SEPTEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 5th of September WELCOME! VENERABLE JOHN RANDAL BRADBURNE, MISSIONARY John Randal Bradburne was born on June 14, 1921 in Skirwith, Cumberland, England. A son of Thomas William Bradburne and his wife Erica May he was baptised in the Church of England. John had two brothers and two sisters. Educated in Norfolk, he had a religious experience in Malaya while a soldier during the Second World War. When he returned to England after the war, he stayed with the Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey and became a Roman Catholic in 1947. He then was a Sacristan at Westminster Cathedral for some time, visited the Holy Land twice, and lived for a year in the organ loft of a tiny church in Italy. Posthumously nicknamed "Vagabond of God", he played plainchant on the harmonium and recorder, loved birds, and ate but once a day. A prolific poet, he wrote more than 170,000 lines of verse, for which achievement he holds a Guinness World
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