SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 5th of November WELCOME! SIGEBERT OF GEMBLOUX, MONK AND CHRONICLER Sigebert of Gembloux Sigebert of Gembloux was a Benedictine monk and historian, born near Gembloux which is now in the Province of Namur, Belgium, about 1035; he died at the same place, November 5, 1112. Apparently he was not a German, but seems to have been of Latin descent. He received his education at the Abbey of Gembloux and at an early age became a monk in this abbey; after this he taught for a long time at the Abbey of Saint Vincent at Metz. About 1070 he returned to Gembloux, where he was universally admired and venerated, and had charge there of the abbey school until his death. While at Metz he wrote the biographies of Bishop Theodoric I of Metz (964 - 985), of King Sigebert III, founder of the monastery of Saint Martin at Metz, and also a long poem on the martyrdom of Saint Lucia, whose relics were venerated at the Abbey of Saint Vincent. After ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 29th of October WELCOME! SAINT SIGEBERT, KING OF EAST ANGLIA, MARTYR Death of Saint Sigebert in the battle with the Mercians - Sidney Paget, c. 1898 Saint Sigebert, king and martyr, who died about 637, was the stepbrother of Earpwald, king of the East Angles. During the reign of Redwald he lived an exile in Gaul where he received baptism and became an ardent Christian. Earpwald died about 627, and East Anglia seems to have relapsed into anarchy and heathenism for some three years until Sigebert returned thither, about 631, and became king. He at once set about the conversion of his people, being greatly assisted by Saint Felix, who seems to have come over from Gaul with him, and for whom a see was established at Dunwich in Suffolk. Another prominent figure in Sigebert's revival was the Irish monk, Saint Fursey, or Fursa, for whom he built a monastery at Burghcastle in Suffolk. With the aid of Saint Felix, Sigebert also est...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 4th of July WELCOME! SAINT ANTOINE DANIEL, MISSIONARY PRIEST AND MARTYR Antoine Daniel [Anthony Daniel] was born on May 27 , 1601, in Dieppe, France, as the son of a merchant. He grew up with three brothers and joined the  Jesuit  order at age twenty, after completing three years of university - two in philosophy and one in law. From 1623 onwards, he taught at  Jesuit  colleges in France. While teaching in Rouen, Father Daniel had the chance to catechize and baptize a Huron student. This event contributed to his desire to commence missionary work among the Huron natives of New France (today’s Canada). While teaching, he had also met  Father John de Brebeuf , recently exiled from New France, and a while later Father Daniel indeed became a missionary to the New World. Father Daniel arrived in Acadia, Canada, in 1632, and was sent to Quebec a year later. There he first taught at school. His opportunity t...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER   Saints celebrated on the 7th of December WELCOME! SAINT CHARLES GARNIER, MISSIONARY PRIEST AND MARTYR The Canadian Martyrs incl. Saint Charles Garnier  Saint Charles Garnier, born on May 25 , 1606, had to be persistent in asking to become a missionary because his father Jean de Garault, a wealthy Parisian gentleman, opposed his desires and obstructed his first request.  Eventually, his family consented, and he commenced his studies of classics, philosophy, and theology at the  Jesuit  college of Clermont, joining the order in 1624, and being ordained a priest in 1635. Father Garnier requested to be sent to the Canadian mission, and sailed in 1636 on the same fleet as Governor Montmagny. He was sent forthwith to the Huron country, where he was to spend the fourteen years of his heroic apostolate without ever returning to Quebec. In six months he mastered the difficult language, and began a career of unceasing charity whi...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 18th of November WELCOME! CHARLES LALEMANT, JESUIT SUPERIOR The cover of the Jesuit Relations for 1662–1663, a report published annually from  Jesuit   missions in the field to their superiors to update them on the missionaries' progress. Charles Lalemant [Charles Lallemant] was born in Paris, November 17 , 1587; died there, November 18 , 1674. He was the first superior of the  Jesuit  missions in Canada, and his letter to his brother Jerome dated August 1 , 1626, inaugurated the series of " Relations " about the missionary work in that country. Thwarted by the Trading Company at Quebec in his efforts to evangelize the indigenous Americans, he went back to France to protest. Attempting to return to America his vessel was captured and he was sent as a prisoner to England. A second attempt resulted in shipwreck off Cape Canso , and on his way back to France in a fishing smack which picked him up he was ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 29th of September WELCOME! SAINT RENE GOUPIL, MARTYR Saint Rene Goupil [René Goupil] was born on May 13 , 1608 in Saint Martin in Anjou, France, the son of Hypolite Goupil and of Luce Provost. His baptism took place on May 15 , 1608. It is noted that Saint Rene formally studied surgery - rather than merely being one of the barber-surgeons of his time. On March 26 , 1639, he entered the  Society of Jesus   in Paris, as a lay assistant (donné) rather than as a  Jesuit , because of his progressing deafness - a note preserved in the archives of the  Jesuits   of Chantilly, near Paris, informs us that he had to discontinue his noviciate for this reason: " Renatus Goupil a tirocinio Parisiensi exclusus erat, quia surdaster ." The following year he offered himself to the Society for missionary work in Quebec, promising to obey the  Jesuit  superior, to receive no remuneration and live a celiba...