SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 22nd of July WELCOME! BLESSED GODEFRID, BISHOP OF LANGRES Godefrid ( Godefridus , Gofridus, [Godfrey]) (feast days:  July 15  or July 22 ;  November 8 or November 13 ) - Prior (or, according to some, Abbot) of Clairvaux and subsequently Bishop of Langres ( Lingones ), is listed as " Blessed Godefridus " by Chalemot * on  November 8 , and others ( the Sammarthani ) accord him a form of veneration by including him in their work ( Gallia christiana* ) under  November 13 . Lechner * lists him under the name Godfrid on  July 22 , also assigning him the title " Blessed ." According to the  Bollandists * he does not receive public veneration (IV. 4).  Godefrid accepted election as Bishop of Langres only upon papal command - writes Lechner * - and after several years of apostolic activity he resigned and returned to Clairvaux. There, he worked on the final three books of the biography o...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 16th of October WELCOME! SAINT BOLONIA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR Saint Bolonia (feast day: October 16 ; commemoration: July 17 ), a virgin and martyr of Vignory (in the Chaumont arrondissement of the Haute-Marne department), was born to noble but pagan parents and raised in the Christian faith by a Christian woman. She suffered martyrdom around the year 362, and some of her remains are still preserved at the aforementioned location. Her relics were translated on  July 17 , 1417. In Church art, she is depicted carrying her head in her hands - not to suggest that she actually carried it for any distance after death, but to indicate the manner of her martyrdom. (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume  1, Augsburg, 1858) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Bolonia may increase our dev...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 23rd of April WELCOME! BLESSED MARY OF BOHEMIA Blessed  Mary (commemorated on  April 23  and  February 9 ) was known as Mlada ( Milada ) before entering the  Benedictine Order . The daughter of the pious King Boleslaus of Bohemia,  Mary  is listed among the " Blessed " in this article by the  Bollandists *. See Mary, Abbess . (III. 96). (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Blessed Mary may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. 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-aca...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 23rd of April WELCOME! VENERABLE MARY, ABBESS Butler * lists  Mary with the title " Venerable ," though he does not specify the date of her death or her feast day. Known in the secular world as Mlada or  Milada , she was a close relative of Duke Boleslaus of Bohemia (who reigned from mid-967). With the approval of  Pope John XIII , the Duke founded a  Benedictine  convent for women at the Church of Saint George in Prague, and  Mary  presided over it as its first abbess. She also rendered significant service to the Christianisation of Bohemia. Notably, she travelled to Rome to meet  Pope John XIII and secured from him the confirmation of the Diocese of Prague (under the metropolitan see of Mainz) in the year 972; however, the formal decree was not issued until the pontificate of Benedict VI . She likely died around the year 995 . (But. XX. 420). (Information from Stadler 's Complete E...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 8th of July WELCOME! SAINT KILLENUS, BISHOP ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints Saint Killenus  ( July 8 ); like "Killena" and "Killinus", this is a variant for the holy Bishop Kilianus , given that the Irish name "Cillin", "Cilleni", "Cillini", "Cillene", and also "Cilliani" appears frequently in the Martyrology of Tallaght *.  See  Saint Kilian ( II. 599 ). (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume  3, Augsburg, 1869, p. 616) *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 ➡️ Irish Confessors and Martyrs

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 29th of August WELCOME! BLESSED BRONISLAVA, VIRGIN Blessed Bronislava ( August 29 ), a virgin of the Premonstratensian Order, was a niece of  Saint Hyacinth . She renounced the world at the age of sixteen to dedicate herself entirely to God in the convent of Zwierzyniec in Krakow. She went to her eternal reward on  August 29 , 1259, at the age of forty-six, and was glorified by God through many miracles. The inhabitants of Krakow sought her intercession during the plague of 1707 and the cholera epidemic of 1835; her veneration, which had existed since time immemorial, was formally confirmed by the Apostolic See on August 3 , 1839.  (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume  1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 516) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Blessed Bronislava may increase our d...