ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 31st of July WELCOME! BLESSED JOHN COLUMBINI, CONFESSOR Blessed John Columbini was the founder of the Congregation of Jesuati; he was born at Siena, Upper Italy, about 1300; he died on the way to Acquapendente, July 31, 1367. NO APPARENT SEEDS OF HOLINESS There was nothing in his early life to indicate the presence in his character of any unusual seeds of holiness. Belonging to an old patrician family, he devoted himself, like thousands of his class in Italy, to commerce, swelled his already substantial fortune, and rose to a position of great prominence and influence among his fellow-citizens, who on several occasions elected him gonfalonier [chief magistrate]. Fortunate in his marriage, of which two children - Peter and Angela - were the fruit, his private life was marred by his avarice, his ambition, and his proneness to anger. A BIOGRAPHY OF ST MARY OF EGYPT One day, while still suffering under a sense o...