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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! LAURENCE, ABBOT OF VILLERS  Laurence (Laurentius) , remembered on May 17, was a monk at Clairvaux Abbey to start with. A student of  Saint Bernard , Laurence afterwards became the first abbot of the  Cistercian  monastery of  Villers  / Villiers  (Villaria) in Brabant. The establishment flourished under Laurence's leadership: the initially small monastery, through the holiness of its monks and the generosity of the faithful, became one of the most distinguished in Belgium.  Laurence loved holy poverty to the highest degree and bore all its hardships with admirable patience. He had the oratory and the huts for the brothers built from tree branches; his sustenance consisted of vegetables and water, and his clothing barely covered his limbs. After his term had ended, he continued to serve God in utter humility, and concluded his holy life, glorified by miracles, in 1154...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! SAINT BRUNO, BISHOP OF WÜRZBURG Saint Bruno died on May 27; he is listed in the Roman Martyrology on May 17. Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg, was a son of Conrad, Duke of Carinthia, and Countess Mathilda, of the House of Querfurt and Mansfeld, and nephew of Saint Bruno , Bishop and Apostle of the Russians and Prussians, whom he is said to have been named after. Quite a few details of his life are shrouded in mystery. We know, however, that, because of his high virtues, he was elevated to the episcopal see of Würzburg [Germany] in 1033 and that he oversaw his flock with wisdom and true pastoral zeal for more than eleven years. The Cathedral of St Kilian is still the most beautiful monument to his pastoral zeal and active piety. When he was forced to travel to Hungary with Emperor Henry III, known as the Henry the Black, in 1045, and was staying with him at Rosenburg Castle not far from Ips [Ybbs] on the Danube, t...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! BLESSED IVAN ZIATYK, PRIEST AND MARTYR Ivan Ziatyk (commemorated on May 17 and June 28) was born on December 26, 1899 near Sanok in southeastern Poland. In 1919, he entered the Ukrainian Catholic seminary in Przemyśl. He was ordained a priest in 1923. From 1925 until 1935, he worked the seminary as a prefect and lecturer. In 1935, Father Ivan joined the  Redemptorists . In 1941, he was made superior of the monastery dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God in German-occupied Tannstadt (now Ternopil, Ukraine), where he served until taking the same position at a monastery in Zboiska in 1944. After the Second World War, the Soviet regime renewed its oppression of Catholics. In 1946, all Greek-Catholic bishops were arrested and, by spring, the Soviet secret police had arrested all Redemptorists in Ternopil, Stanislaviv, Lviv, and Zboiska, relocating them to an unheated wing of the monastery in Holo...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! PAUL, DEACON AND MONK OF MONTE CASSINO Paul  (Paulus),  deacon and monk at Monte Cassino, who distinguished himself through erudition and piety, is listed by  Bucelin * with the title "blessed." The  Bollandists * mention this holy man among the  Praetermissi (IV. 3). (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  4, Augsburg, 1875) *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 MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! SAINT BRUNO, BISHOP OF WÜRZBURG, CONFESSOR Today, we also commemorate Saint Bruno . The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Würzburg, Saint Bruno, bishop and confessor." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Bruno 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. ➡️ More information about Saint Bruno

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May SAINTS ADRIO, VICTOR, AND BASILLA, MARTYRS Today, we also commemorate Saints Adrio, Victor, and Basilla. The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Alexandria, the holy martyrs Adrio, Victor, and Basilla." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Adrio, Victor, and Basilla 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 MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May SAINT SOLOCHARNUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS Today, we also commemorate Saint Solocharnus and Companions. The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Chalcedon, the holy martyr Solochanus and his companions, soldiers under the emperor Maximian." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Solocharnus and Companions 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 MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May SAINT HERACLIUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS Today, we also commemorate Saint Heraclius and Companions. The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Noyon, the holy martyrs Heraclius, Paul, and Aquilinus, with two Others." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Heraclius, Paul, Aquilinus, and Companions 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 MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May SAINT RESTITUTA, MARTYR Today, we also commemorate Saint Restituta. The Roman Martyrology states:  "The same day, Saint Restituta, virgin and martyr, who was subjected to various kinds of tortures in Africa by the judge Proculus, in the reign of Valerian, and then put in a boat filled with pitch and tow, to be burnt to death on the sea. But the flame turned on those who had kindled it, and the saint yielded her spirit to God in prayer. Her body was, by divine providence, carried in the boat to the island of Ischia, near Naples, where it was received by the Christians with great veneration. A church was afterwards erected in her honour in that city by Constantine the Great." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Restituta 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 S...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May SAINT TORPES, MARTYR Today, we also commemorate Saint Torpes. The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Pisa, in Tuscany, the holy martyr Torpes, who filled a high office in the court of Nero, and was one of those of whom the apostle St. Paul wrote from Rome to the Philippians: 'All the saints salute you, especially those that are of the house of Caesar.”' For the faith of Christ, he was, by order of Satellicus, buffeted, cruelly scourged and delivered to the beasts to be devoured, but being uninjured, he at last terminated his martyrdom by decapitation on April 29. His feast, however, is kept on this day, on account of the translation of his body." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Torpes 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 ev...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May BLESSED FRANCESCO DE DURAZZO, RELIGIOUS [Blessed Francesco de Durazzo] (Franciscus Dyrrachinus) was born at Durrazzo (Dyrrachium) , a fortified sea-town in Turkish Albania on a promontory of the Adriatic Sea. From his early youth he lived at Assisi, and then went to the Minorite Monastery at Oria, where he led a holy life. He worked many miracles and died towards the end of the 14th century. He was buried in the Franciscan church there.  In his Menologium, Hueber * speaks of a Franciscus de Durazzo on March 14, and says he flourished in Apulia around the year 1359. On May 17, however, he mentions Franciscus Dyrrachinus, who would have, according to this author, died around 1506 at Oria in Apulia. (IV. 43.) (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! BLESSED ANTONIA MESINA, MARTYR  Blessed Antonia Mesina was born into a poor family in a small town in Sardinia, Italy, in 1919. As one of the older children of ten, she had to help around the house, because her mother was chronically ill. At the age of ten, Antonia became a very active member of Catholic Action. When she was 16, she was attacked while out gathering wood after Mass. Her friend ran away, trying to find help.  PATRON OF RAPE VICTIMS Antonia was beaten and murdered by a would-be rapist, fighting him off to her last breath. She suffered 74 strikes with a stone before she died. On October 5, 1935 the Catholic Action member Venerable Armida Barelli - who had met Antonia once - met with  Pope Pius XI and informed him of Antonia's activism and her murder.  Antonia was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987 as a martyr of purity. She is a patron of rape victims. PRAYER: Grant, w...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! SAINT CATHAN OF BUTE, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR  Saint Cathan flourished in the sixth or seventh century. His relics in the isle of Bute were so famous in Scotland, that the island was often called Kil-cathan.  Kil signifies a church or oratory, as Kilbraid, Kilpatrick, etc. (From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints) *** Cathan (Catan, Cadan) was a saint who flourished in the sixth or possibly in the seventh century. He appears to have been a Bishop in the Isle of Bute, often called after him Kil-cathan. He was, it is said, Irish by birth, and the uncle of Saint Blane. Colgan says that he died after A.D. 560, and his tomb is shown at Tamlacht near Londonderry. The Scots contend that he rests in the Isle of Bute. It is possible that there may have been two Saints of the name. (From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! 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 their lives...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May 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 their lives, so that...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! SAINT POSSIDIUS, BISHOP OF CALAMA, CONFESSOR    Saint Possidius was a native of the proconsular Africa, and had his education under the great St Augustine. In 397 he was chosen bishop of Calama in Numidia, which diocese he found distracted by the factions both of heathens and Donatists.  HE WAS ASSAULTED In 404 a party of the latter dragged him out of his house, beat him, and threatened his life. All the revenge he took of them was to obtain their pardon from the emperor.  Four years after this, the idolaters in a riotous festival on the 1st of June, had the insolence to dance round the church, throw stones into it, and set it on fire, wounding several of the clergy, and killing one upon the spot.  HE PUT A WORD IN FOR THE RIOTERS Nectarius, a principal person among the heathens, who had no share in this tumult, wrote to St Augustine to beg him to intercede with the emperor for the...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May   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 their lives, ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day May 17 Saint Paschal Baylon Saint Paschal Baylon, Religious Blessed Antonia Mesina, Martyr Saint Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg Bueillius, Patriarch in America Saint Cathan of Bute, Bishop Blessed Francesco de Durazzo, Religious Blessed Ivan Ziatyk, Priest and Martyr Blessed Joachim Mine Sukedayu, Martyr Laurence, Abbot of Villers Saint Maden, Confessor Saint Mawes, Confessor Paul, Deacon and Monk of Monte Cassino Saint Possidius, Bishop of Calama Saint Restituta, Virgin and Martyr Saint Silaus, Bishop of Lucca Saint Torpes, Martyr Saints Adrio, Victor, and Basilla, Martyrs Saint Heraclius and Companions, Martyrs Saint Parterius and Companions, Martyrs Saint Solocharnus and Companions, Martyrs -1705-

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! SAINT PASCHAL BAYLON, RELIGIOUS [On 17th May] one of the saints celebrated by the Church is Saint Pascal Baylon [Paschal Baylon]. Saint Pascal was born in 1540 at the border of Castile and Aragon. As a youth he tended his family’s sheep on the mountain. He had to grow accustomed to the loneliness of a shepherd’s life and taught himself to read so that he could pray the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin, a popular prayer book at the time. Saint Pascal always tried to do the right thing, so whenever his sheep caused any damage to a neighbour’s property he would admit the damage and pay for it out of his meagre resources. "I HAVE NEVER NOTICED THE LEAST FAULT IN HIM" At the age of twenty-one, Saint Pascal joined the reformed Franciscans of St Peter of Alcantara at Loreto. As a lay brother, Saint Pascal served for many years in the religious house as the doorkeeper and porter. He tried his best always to...