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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 2nd of September   WELCOME! SAINT ORONIUS MODESTUS, BISHOP OF CARPENTRAS Saint Oronius ( Orontius ), surnamed Modestus (the Humble One), is listed by Dempster * as a 5th century bishop of Carpentras [Provence region] in France [A.D. 445]  (I. 337). (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 628) *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 Oronius 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 SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of September SAINT ANTHONY, BISHOP OF CARPENTRAS According to a tradition followed by the Bollandists, Anthony (Antonius, Antoninus), bishop of Carpentras (Carpentoracte, Carpentoractum) in Provence in France, died in A. D. 480.  In the diocese of Carpentras there are two places which consider our Anthony their patron saint, namely Bedoin (Beduinum) and Malemort. In the first city, the mortal remains of the saint were kept and venerated - until the time of the Calvinists, who endeavoured to destroy all the sacred relics. An eyewitness, a 90-year-old old man, testified in 1624 that he had been present at the heretics' burning of the relics and saw how a Calvinist had thrown the head of the saint into the fire four or five times and each time the head had come out of the flames intact. The Bollandists * reckon that this our Saint Anthony is the same who was sent to  Pope Hilary (Hilarius) in 463 to deli...