SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 4th of February BLESSED ONASTANCIUS, BISHOP OF LONDON Blessed Onastancius, Bishop of London, lived in the 7th century and is venerated in England. He died about A.D. 640.  (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 621) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Onastancius 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 APRIL Saints celebrated on the 30th of April WELCOME! SAINT ERKONWALD, BISHOP OF LONDON, CONFESSOR   Saint Erkonwald was a prince of the royal blood, son of Annas, the holy king of the East-Angles, or, as some say, of a certain prince named Offa.  HE FORSOOK HIS OWN COUNTRY The better to disengage himself from the ties and incumbrances of the world, he forsook his own country, and retired into the kingdom of the East-Saxons, where he employed his large estate in founding two great monasteries, one at Chertsey, in Surrey, near the Thames, the other for nuns, at Barking in Essex; of this latter he appointed his sister Edilburga abbess. The former he governed with great sanctity, till he was forced out of his dear solitude by King Sebba, in 675, and consecrated bishop of London by St Theodorus.  HE MUCH AUGMENTED THE BUILDINGS OF ST PAUL'S He much augmented the buildings and revenues of St Paul’s, and obtained for that church great privileges ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH   Saints celebrated on the 2nd of March WELCOME! SAINT CHAD, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR  Saint Chad (Ceada) was brother to St Cedd, bishop of London, and the two holy priests Celin and Cymbel, and had his education in the monastery of Lindisfarne, under St Aidan.  For his greater improvement in sacred letters and divine contemplation he passed into Ireland, and spent a considerable time in the company of St Egbert, till he was called back by his brother St Cedd to assist him in settling the monastery of Lestingay, which he had founded in the mountains of the Deiri, that is, the Woulds of Yorkshire.  ST CEDD LEFT TO HIM THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT OF HIS HOUSE St Cedd being made bishop of London, or of the East Saxons, left to him the entire government of this house. Oswi having yielded up Bernicia, or the northern part of his kingdom, to his son Alcfrid, this prince sent St Wilfrid into France, that he might be consecrated to the bishopric o...