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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! SAINT JUVENALIS, MARTYR OF CAGLIARI Saint Juvenalis was a martyr of Cagliari, Sardinia, whose body was found with those of Saints Quadragesima and Restituta in 1626. His feast day is  February 12 . (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  3, Augsburg, 1869, p. 585) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Juvenalis 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 FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! BLESSED JAMES FENN, PRIEST AND MARTYR He was born at Montacute, in Somersetshire, and brought up in Oxford, first in New College, where his two elder brothers, John and Robert, studied at that time, and afterwards in Corpus Christi College, but being about to be received fellow of the college, he boggled at the oath of supremacy, which was tendered him upon that occasion, and thereupon was expelled the house: however, he stayed a while longer in the university, and was tutor to some young scholars in Gloucester-Hall - but not finding himself safe here, he retired from Oxford into his native country, Somersetshire, where he wan entertained by a gentleman of fortune, in quality of tutor or preceptor to his sons, whom he brought up in the fear of God, and the love of the old religion; though their father, who was a worldly man, had another way of thinking. Here Mr. Fenn married a wife by whom he h...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN NUTTER, PRIEST AND MARTYR John Nutter was born in the parish of Burnley, in Lancashire, and educated in the university of Oxford, where he was admitted bachelor of divinity, June 13, 1575. Afterwards leaving the protestant communion, he went to Rheims [Reims], where he and his brother arrived, August 13, 1579. He was made priest in 1582, and sent upon the mision. He took shipping at Newhaven, "Havre de Grace," in France, with a design to land at Scarborough: but the ship foundering upon the coast of Suffolk, and Mr. Nutter being taken ill of a violent fever, he was put on shore at Dunwich.  The ship was soon after lost, but the mariners and passengers were all saved. In the wreck a neighbouring minister laying hold of a bag, in hopes of meeting with some booty, was disappointed to find nothing but Catholic books, from which, both he and the magistrates, to whom he gave an acco...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN MUNDEN, PRIEST AND MARTYR Mr. Munden was born at Maperton, in Dorsetshire, and educated in the university of Oxford; where he was admitted fellow of New College, in 1562, and had the character of being a very good civilian. Being discovered to be a Catholic, he was deprived of his fellowship in 1566; and after many years, going abroad, he applied himself to the study of divinity, at Rheims [Reims], where he arrived in 1580; where he also, according to some authors, he was made priest: but in the account in Dr. Bridgewater, of his examination before secretary Walsingham, he answers, that he was made priest at Rome, though he was not of the college or seminary there; and I find him in the Douay diary as returning priest from Rome , in 1582. About the end of February, 1582-3, as he was going up from Winchester to London, he met upon Hounslowheath with one Mr. Hammond, lawyer, who knowin...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! BLESSED GEORGE HAYDOCK, PRIEST AND MARTYR [Blessed George Haydock was an] English martyr; born 1556; executed at Tyburn, February 12, 1583-84. He was the youngest son of Evan Haydock of Cotton Hall, Lancashire, and Helen, daughter of William Westby of Mowbreck Hall, Lancashire; was educated at the English Colleges at Douai and Rome, and ordained priest (apparently at Reims), December 21, 1581. Arrested in London soon after landing, he spent a year and three months in the strictest confinement in the Tower, suffering from the recrudescence of a severe malarial fever first contracted in the early summer of 1581 when visiting the seven churches of Rome. About May, 1583, though he remained in the Tower, his imprisonment was relaxed to "free custody", and he was able to administer the Sacraments to his fellow-prisoners. During the first period of his captivity he was accustomed to decorate his c...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! GODWIN OF DURHAM, RELIGIOUS Godwin [Goduinus] was a 12th century monk of Durham who later in his life became a hermit. Some consider him to be a disciple and companion of Saint Godric . He is also referred to as Ethelricus and Ailricus . [The name Godwin / Goduin is derived from the Old German and means: God's friend . The Bollandists * list it as Gottlieb .] (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 463) *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

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! BLESSED JAK BUSHATI, PRIEST AND MARTYR Jak Bushati was born on August 8, 1890 in the city of Shkodra. He started his education at the Franciscan school and afterwards continued to the Pontifical Seminary of Shkodra. Jak was the parish priest of Ndrefana, and later of Gëzig. After 26 years as a priest in Mirdita Abbey, he was transferred to Kallmet as a parish priest. The communist regime did not even spare the devout and sober-minded priest as in 1949 he was accused of helping the saboteurs and was arrested for agitation and propaganda. These are the charges that would lead him to be shot without trial on February 12, 1949. His dead body was thrown into a swamp somewhere near Lezha. On November 5, 2016, Dom Jak Bushati was beatified in Saint Stephen's Cathedral square in Shkodra. Source: https://ata.gov.al/2024/02/12/perkujtohet-martiri-i-kishes-katolike-dom-jak-bushati-pushkatuar-nga-regjimi-kom...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! SAINT DONATUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS Saints Donatus, Heradius (Heraclius), Vincent, Susanna, Orbana , and Donata are stated to have been killed for Christ's sake. Most of them, if not all, suffered in Italy, perhaps some of them obtained the martyr's crown in Africa. (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 796) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Donatus, Heradius, Vincent, Susanna, Orbana, and Donata 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 FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 12th of February WELCOME! SAINT ORBANA, MARTYR OF ITALY Saint Orbana (Urbana), was a martyr in Italy. Nothing is known about this holy lady except that she was a companion of Saint Donatus . (II. 581) (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 626) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Orbana 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 FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February FORTUNATUS HUEBER,  HISTORIAN AND THEOLOGIAN A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) Fortunatus Hueber was a Franciscan historian and theologian, born at Neustadt on the Danube; died February 12, 1706, at Munich.  He entered the Bavarian province of the Franciscan Reformati on November 5, 1654. On account of his excellent character and great learning he was appointed to different offices in the Order: He was general lector in theology; cathedral preacher in Freising from 1670 to 1676; then in 1677 Provincial of Bavaria. In 1679 he was definitor-general and chronologist of the order in Germany, and in 1698 was proclaimed scriptor ordinis.  He was also confessor to the ancient and renowned convent of the Poor Clares at Munich, called St Jacob on the Anger. As commissary of the general of the Order in 1675 and 1701 he visited the Bohemian province, and in 16...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 12th of February BLESSED QUINTILIAN, PRIEST AND CONFESSOR Blessed Quintilian (Quintilianus) was  a priest and confessor who, according to Migne * and others, lived around A.D. 669. In the biography of Saint Eligius he is called "abbot." For centuries, Quintilian was venerated at St Paul's in Paris. (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 7) *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 the blessed Quintilian 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.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February SAINT SEDULIUS, BISHOP ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints Saint Sedulius, bishop at Dublin in Ireland, is also called abbot by some writers and, according to the Martyrology of Dungal *, died in A.D. 785. Colgan * states that Sedulius is counted among the saints in Irish martyrologies, and the Mart. Taml .* mentions a bishop named Siatal on that day, who is probably the same person as the one named here.  (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 242) *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 Saint Sedulius 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. ➡️ Irish Confessors ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February SAINT ALEXIS, ARCHBISHOP OF KIEV Saint Alexis [Alexius] was a Russian nobleman who embraced the religious life under the Rule of Saint Basil, and who later became Archbishop of Kiev. Famous for the working of miracles and for wisdom and learning, he is said to have been appealed to for advice, even by the Sultan of the Turks in Asia Minor. He died in A.D. 1364. (From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate) PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Alexis 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.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 12th of February LEO VI., POPE  ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index [c. 880 - February 12, 929.] He was a Roman, the son of the primicerius, Christopher, who had been prime-minister of John VIII. When Leo became pope, he was Cardinal-Priest of St Susanna.  His immediate predecessor, John X, had been engaged in settling questions of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Dalmatia; some of these were decided by Leo VI, and there is extant a Bull of his in which he states that he has granted the pallium to Archbishop John of Spalato, orders all the bishops of Dalmatia to obey him, and to confine their operations within the limits of their own dioceses, and instructs Bishop Gregory to be content with the Diocese of Scodra.  The only other item of information regarding Leo which has reached us is that "according to most writers he was buried in St Peter's". (From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 12th of February Prayer to the Angels and the Saints Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation. In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven. Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses. Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed the...