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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 25th of January WELCOME! SAINT AMANDUS OF ULM The name Amandus is derived from the Latin; it means the amiable one.  Saint Amandus, commonly called  Henry Suso , a member of the Order of  Saint Dominic  in Ulm, was born in 1300 in Constance on Lake Constance. One theory states that he was called Amandus because his wonderful beauty, which was so great that wild robbers who once attacked him in the forest fell down before him and confessed. Others reckon that God himself gave him the name Amandus because Suso, filled with divine love, deserved to be loved by God in return. Suso ardently loved God, especially under the form of "Eternal Wisdom," who is said to have once visibly adorned him with a wreath of blooming roses. For more information about Saint Amandus, see Henry Suso . (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 159) Stadler's Com...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 25th of January WELCOME! BLESSED HENRY SUSO, PRIEST AND MYSTIC Blessed Henry Suso [Heinrich Seuse,  Amandus ] was a German mystic, born at Constance on March 21, about 1295; died at Ulm, January 25, 1366; declared Blessed in 1831 by Gregory XVI. Dominican feast: March 2. His father belonged to the noble family of Berg; his mother, a holy woman from whom he took his name, to a family of Sus (or Süs). When thirteen years of age he entered the Dominican convent at Constance, where he made his preparatory, philosophical, and theological studies. HE BECAME A DOMINICAN From 1324 to 1327 he took a supplementary course in theology in the Dominican studium generale at Cologne, where he sat at the feet of Johann Eckhart, "the Master", and probably at the side of Johannes Tauler, both celebrated mystics. Returning to Constance, he was appointed to the office of lector, from which he seems to have been removed some time between ...