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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 31st of October WELCOME! SAINT ALPHONSUS RODRIGUEZ, JESUIT Alphonsus Rodriguez lived a whole life before entering the  Society of Jesus . He was a husband, a father, a businessman. But when his family died and his business collapsed, his entire life was upended. Alphonsus had been in comfortable circumstances, born in 1533 as the son of a wool merchant. When Peter Faber , one of the original  Jesuits , visited the city to preach, the Rodriguez family provided hospitality to the  Jesuit .  Faber  prepared the young Rodriguez for his First Communion. At the age of twelve, Alphonsus was sent to the new  Jesuit  college at Alcala,  but left two years later to help his mother run the family business after his father died. At the age of 26, he married Maria Suarez, a woman of his own station, with whom he had three children. At the age of 31, she had died as did two of their children. From...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 8th of May WELCOME! SAINT GALLA, MARTYR 📷 PublicDomainPictures   Saint Galla, commemorated on May 8 , a martyr who suffered at Byzantium in the year 303, was a companion of Saint Agathius . (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume  2, Augsburg, 1861) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Galla 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-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 31st of July WELCOME! BLESSED GIOVANNI COLOMBINI, MERCHANT Born in Siena, Upper Italy, about 1300, there was nothing in the early life of the Founder of the Congregation of Jesuati to indicate the presence in his character of any unusual seeds of holiness. Belonging to an old patrician family, Giovanni Colombini (John Colombini) devoted himself, like thousands of his class in Italy, to commerce, swelled his already substantial fortune, and rose to a position of great prominence and influence among his fellow-citizens. Fortunate in his marriage, his private life was marred by his avarice, his ambition, and his proneness to anger. One day, he chanced to take up a biography of Saint Mary of Egypt, whose later life had been as conspicuous for penance as her earlier had been for sin. The perusal of this narrative brought a new light into his life; henceforth ambition and anger gave way to an almost incredible humility and meekness...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 24th of July WELCOME! BLESSED GIOVANNI TAVELLI, BISHOP OF FERRARA Giovanni Tavelli [John Tavelli] (b. at Tossignano, 1386; d. at Ferrara, July 24 , 1446) was an Italian Catholic bishop, venerated as Blessed by the Catholic Church. A member of the Apostolic Clerics of  Saint Jerome ,  which were started by John Colombini , from July 2 , 1408 onwards, he is remembered in the history of this order - which is also known as the Gesuati -  for having written its constitutions, thereby initiating the process that transformed the Gesuati from a loose association of laypeople into a mendicant order. Sources: -  https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Tavelli  - https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btossig.html PRAYER: O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of the blessed Bishop Giovanni, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in his merits, we may be inspired by his example. Through our Lord Jesus Chri...

WELCOME! THE FRANCISCANS  The Franciscan order is one of the four great mendicant orders of the church, and its members strive to cultivate the ideals of poverty and charity.  The Franciscan motto is pax et bonum , which means peace and all good . Franciscan theology can refer to a wide range of principles; Franciscan spirituality generally aligns with the teachings of  Saint Francis  and  Saint Clare  of Assisi.  Three orders were founded by the Italian saint  Saint Francis of Assisi . They include three independent religious orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest contemporary male order), an order for nuns known as the Order of  Saint Clare , and the Third Order of  Saint Francis , a religious and secular group open to male and female members. Congregations of these religious men and women are numerous all over the world, and the Franciscans are the largest religious order in the Roman Catholic Church. Sources:...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 11th of September WELCOME! BLESSED JOAN ROIG I DIGGLE, MARTYR Blessed Joan [John] Roig i Diggle ( May 12 , 1917 - September 11 , 1936) was a teenager from  Catalonia who had hoped to become a missionary. A member of the Federation of Young Christians of Catalonia , Blessed Joan went to school in Barcelona before he moved to complete his education under the La Salle  Brothers and  Piarists in El Masnou. He then had to take on jobs in warehouses in order to support his father who had become unemployed due to a financial situation in his workplace. Blessed Joan delivered communion to the old and sick and was known for offering them comfort during the mounting Spanish Civil War when it became uncertain as to the fate for priests and religious. A daily communicant himself, Blessed Joan was granted permission to keep the  Eucharist  in his home so that he would be able to distribute It more easily du...