ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 21st of July ATHANASIUS, BISHOP OF SPEYER Athanasius, bishop of Speyer (Spirae Vangionum) in the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate, is to be regarded as the apostle of that region. Under him, the Benedictine monastery in Weissenburg was built by King Dagobert. After 40 years of apostolic work he died in A.D. 652. Our source gives him the title "blessed" . (Buc. Suppl.) (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 339) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations