ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 22nd of September WELCOME! SAINT THOMAS OF VILLANOVA, BISHOP Saint Thomas was born at Fuenlana in Castile in 1488. His parents, Alphonsus Thomas Garcias and Lucy Martinez, were originally of Villanova. Their fortune was not affluent; but it contented all their wishes, and with their prudent frugality enabled them liberally to assist the poor. The first words which his parents had taught him to pronounce were the names of Jesus and Mary; and during his whole life he had the most tender devotion to the mother of God. At the age of fifteen he was sent to the university of Alcala, which had been lately founded by Cardinal Ximenes, who gave him a place in Saint Ildefonso’s college. After eleven years spent at Alcala he was made professor of philosophy in that city, being then twenty-six years old. After he had taught two years at Alcala, he taught moral philosophy two years at Salamanca: during which time ...