ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 12th of April
HELIAS, ABBOT OF SAINT PANTALEON AND SAINT MARTIN
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| A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) |
Helias was a Scotsman.who presided over the monasteries of Saint Pantaleon and Saint Martin in Cologne. He died April 12, 1042. Trithemius* and many martyrologies list him as "Saint Helias". Others give him the title "blessed" or at least call him a "fine servant of God." The Bollandists* do not mention him as a saint. He does not seem to have been publicly venerated. (II. 65)
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 623)
*A hagiography source used by the authors
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
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