ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 5th of January
SERVANT OF GOD GERHARD SCHWOLL, PRIEST AND RELIGIOUS
Gerhard Schwoll (Gerardus), a Franciscan priest at Aachen, who aroused the hatred of heretics by his sermons against Luther's errors, endured this with patience. This "Servant of God" died in A.D. 1597 after many afflictions and sufferings. (Hub. Men.)
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 400)
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
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