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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of December WELCOME! SAINT AUBERT, BISHOP OF ARRAS AND CAMBRAI, CONFESSOR This great prelate was one of the greatest ornaments of the seventh age, and eminent promoters of learning and piety in the Gallican Church.  HE WAS PIOUS FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE His youth, that most precious season of life, he dedicated to God by the mortification and the absolute conquest of sensual appetites; he was careful to employ all his time usefully, and was a great proficient in sacred learning.  Having with great zeal served the Church for many years, he was consecrated bishop of Arras and Cambray [Cambrai] on March 24, 633.  BISHOP OF ARRAS AND CAMBRAY Though solitude, in which he conversed in heaven, and consulted God on his own necessities, and those of his people, was his delight, yet he knew what he owed to others; his door was always open to persons of all ranks and conditions, and he was ever ready to afford every...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of December WELCOME!   SAINT KENELM, KING AND MARTYR Kenulph, a prince of the blood royal of Mercia, was in the fourth degree of descent from Wibba, father of King Penda, and Egfert the son of Offa, having reigned only half-a-year, was called to the throne of Mercia, which he filled twenty-two years.  HE LEFT HIS SON UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF HIS SISTER Dying in 819, he left his son Kenelm, a child only seven years old, heir to his crown, under the tutelage of his sister Quindride.  This ambitious woman committed his person to the care of one Ascobert, whom she had hired to make away with him.  The wicked minister decoyed the innocent child into an unfrequented wood, cut off his head, and buried him under a thorn-tree. His corpse is said to have been discovered by a heavenly ray of light which shone over the place, and by the following inscription: In Clent cow-pasture, under a thorn, Of head bereft, ...

   ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of December WELCOME! SAINT ODILIA OF ALSACE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS Saint Odilia is patroness of Alsace. She was born at the end of the seventh century and died about 720. According to a trustworthy statement, apparently taken from an earlier Life , she was the daughter of the Frankish lord Adalrich (Aticus, Etik) and his wife Bereswinda, who had large estates in Alsace.  SHE FOUNDED THE CONVENT OF HOHENBURG She founded the convent of Hohenburg (Odilienberg) in Alsace, to which Charlemagne granted immunity, confirmed March 9, 837 by Louis the Pious who endowed the foundation.  SHE RECEIVED HER SIGHT AT BAPTISM A tenth-century "Vita " has been preserved, written at the close of the century. According to this narrative she was born blind, miraculously receiving her sight at baptism.  AN EIGHTH-CENTURY BIOGRAPHY A shorter text, probably independent of this, is contained in a manuscript of the early elev...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of December Prayer to the Angels and the Saints Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation. In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven. Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses. Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their live...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of December WELCOME! SAINT JODOC, CONFESSOR [Judoc, Joyce, Josse, Judocus] Those Britons who, flying from the swords of the English-Saxons, settled in Armorica in Gaul, upon the ruins of the Roman empire in those parts, formed themselves into a little state on that coast till they were obliged to receive the laws of the French.  Judicael, commonly called Giguel, eldest son of Juthael, became king of Brittany about the year 630. This prince soon after renounced this perishable crown to labour more securely for the acquisition of an incorruptible one, and retired into the monastery of St Meen, in the diocese of St Malo, where he lived in so great sanctity as to be honoured after his death with the title of the Blessed Judicael. When he resigned the crown he offered it to his younger brother Jodoc, called by the French Josse. But Jodoc had the same inclinations with his eldest brother. However, to consult the divin...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Advent Saint of the Day Saint feast day December 13 Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Saint Antiochus, Martyr Saint Aubert, Bishop Saint Enhildis, Abbess of Niedermünster Saint Hugh of Poitiers Saint Jodoc, Confessor   Blessed John Marinoni   St Kenelm, King and Martyr Saint Odilia   Saint Orestes, Martyr Saint Origen, Hermit Saint Ost Saint Otger, Religious Saints Eustratius and Companions, Martyrs Seven Priests and Confessors, Martyrs -1312-

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER   Saints celebrated on the 13th of December WELCOME! SAINT LUCY, VIRGIN AND MARTYR Saint Lucy, a virgin at Syracuse, illustrious by birth and because of her Christian faith, went to the tomb of Blessed Agatha at Catania and obtained the cure of her mother Eutychia, who had been suffering from an issue of blood. Soon she begged from her mother all the goods which she was to receive for her dowry and distributed them to the poor. SHE DISTRIBUTED HER DOWRY TO THE POOR When it was reported to Paschasius the prefect that she was a Christian, neither flattery nor threats could induce her to sacrifice to idols. Then Paschasius, inflamed with anger, ordered Lucy to be dragged to a place where her virginity would be violated; but by the power of God the virgin stood so firmly that no force was able to move her. SHE STOOD SO FIRMLY THAT NO FORCE COULD MOVE HER The prefect then commanded a fire to be kindled about her; but since no flame injured her, s...