SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 13th of April WELCOME! SAINT MARTIUS, ABBOT Saint Martius, Abbot;  April 13 (alternatively  April 7 or April 14 ). As a young man, he withdrew into solitude. Later, disciples joined him, and a monastery was established in the Auvergne, near Clermont, of which he became the abbot. He died 530. Represented as a hermit digging. He is invoked against demonic possession and intermittent fevers.  Source: Franz von Sales Doyé, Saints and Blesseds of the Roman Catholic Church: Their Identifying Attributes, Patronages, and Biographical Notes, Volume 1, Vier Quellen Verlag, Leipzig, 1929

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH   Saints celebrated on the 1st of March WELCOME! SAINT LEO, ARCHBISHOP OF ROUEN, MARTYR Saint Leo ( March 1 ), Archbishop of Rouen ( Rotomagus ) and martyr, is discussed by the  Bollandists * under March 1 ( I, 89-97 ), along with his two brothers - the holy martyr Gervasius and the holy confessor Philippus (referred to as Eleutherius by  Butler *, III, 329 ) - and is identified as the Apostle of Bayonne ( Baionensium ). He was born in the year 856 to noble, pious parents in Carentan ( Carentanum ), in the Diocese of Coutances ( Constantia ) in Lower Normandy. His father’s name is unknown; his mother was named Alicia, and it is said that she gave birth to him without any pain. Like Saint Nicholas, he practiced fasting from his very childhood; his self-denial made him an admirable example, to such an extent that King Louis the German heard of him, summoned the twelve-year-old boy to his presence, and sent him to Paris for further educa...