SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 15th of May WELCOME! SAINT LEOGONTIA, VIRGIN Saint Leogontia was an early medieval virgin saint venerated primarily in Clermont-Ferrand ( Claromontium ), France. Historical details regarding her life are minimal, but her memory is preserved through ancient regional liturgical records. Her relics rest in Clermont, France, inside the ancient Church of  St Cassius  ( Église Saint-Cassien ). She is entombed alongside other localized early saints, including  Saint Cassius , Saint Victorinus, and Saint Georgia. Early ecclesiastical tables, such as the Tabula Illidiana (associated with Saint Allyre/Illidius ), specifically designate her as a holy virgin ( virgo ). Historically, her exact day of death ( dies natalis ) was unknown, leading some martyrologists like Saussay to relegate her to a volume appendix. However, the hagiographical work Gynæceo sacro recognizes her commemoration on May 15 . Sources: Google AI, http...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of November WELCOME! BLESSED THEOBALD, BISHOP OF VERONA The  Bollandists * list a bishop of Verona by this name (Sept. VII, 378) among those omitted from their main entries; they note that he died on September 27, 1331. Yet he is indeed venerated as Blessed, at least within the Augustinian Order. He was born in Verona in 1242. The names of his parents are unknown, but they provided for his upbringing and education so thoroughly that one might have wondered whether his piety or his learning was the greater. The promising young man sought and found admission and a role among the Augustinian Hermits at the Church of St Euphemia. He preached what he had acquired in his solitary cell - through fervent prayer and rigorous penance - with such captivating eloquence that he was called to the episcopal office. Among his pastoral virtues, prudence, zeal, piety, and a love of peace - the latter shining especially brightly ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 26th of January WELCOME! Saint Mary of Jerusalem, commemorated on January 26 , was the wife of  Saint Xenophon of Jerusalem. (II. 723). (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: May the intercession of Saint Mary commend us to you, so that through her merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

  WELCOME! MAROVEUS, BISHOP OF POITIERS Although Maroveus - the nineteenth Bishop of Poitiers in the line of succession - is nowhere recorded as a saint, we believe he deserves a place here due to the special praise  Saint Gregory of Tours  bestows upon him. He lived towards the end of the seventh century. When King Guntram was ravaging the city and the countryside, Maroveus did not even spare precious church vessels in order to ransom himself and the people from the king. He exercised great diligence in the visitation of his diocese. He may therefore rightly be acclaimed as a disciple of the great Hilary . (Hist. Fr. VII. 24; De gl. conf. 106; De mirac. S. Martini, ch. 44.) (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 257) *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.co...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE   Saints celebrated on the 5th of June   WELCOME! SAINT LEOGONTIUS, BISHOP OF CLERMONT Saint Leogontius (June 5), also spelled Leoguntius (French: St-Legonce ), was Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne and the predecessor of Saint Illidius . Some hagiographers state that a church dedicated to him stood by the city's western wall and that he was buried there. He died around the year 366. In his "Lives of the Saints of Auvergne" , Jakob Branche * claims that Leogontius is venerated as a saint due to the undeniable miracles he performed; he further asserts that a church was built in his honour but that his remains were transferred to the church of the holy martyr Cassius . This latter claim, however, is entirely arbitrary, as Branche * - without any basis - substitutes Leogontius for  Leogontia (an altar dedicated to whom is indeed found in the church of  Cassius ).  (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volu...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 1st of August WELCOME! SAINT FRIARDUS, CONFESSOR (SS. Friardus and Secundellus, Confessors [ August 1 )].  Saint Friardus - called Friarius by  Butler * - was distinguished from childhood by his fear of God; he spent most of his time in vigil and prayer, yet never failed to earn his livelihood through manual labour. After falling from a tall tree and remaining uninjured, he resolved to serve God ceaselessly in solitude. Together with Abbot Sabaudus and the deacon Secundellus , he settled on the island of Vindunita, in the territory of Nantes, living there in a simple cell. When the wind once tore a branch from a tree he had planted, Friardus fashioned a staff from it; long afterwards, he planted it in the ground and watered it diligently, and it grew into a large tree. Before his death, he respectfully invited  Bishop Felix to visit him. He passed into eternal life during the second half of the sixth century...