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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 14th 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 14th of December   WELCOME! BLESSED MARY FRANCES SCHERVIER, FOUNDRESS The Sisters of the Poor of Saint Francis are a Congregation founded by the Venerable Mother Frances Schervier [Maria Franziska Schervier] at Aachen in the year 1845, whose members observe the Rule of the Third Order of St Francis, as given by Leo X for Tertiaries living in community, and Constitutions adapted to their special work, care of the sick poor, dependent upon charity. Blessed Frances Schervier, born in Aachen, January 3, 1819, was the child of John Henry Caspar Schervier, proprietor of a needle manufactory and associate magistrate of the city, and Maria Louisa Migeon, descendant of a wealthy French family.  Frances’s education was thorough, and it was always her desire to serve the sick and poor. She began by giving them food and clothing, labouring for them, and visiting them in their homes and hospitals.  ACTIVE C...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 14th of December WELCOME! SAINT VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS, BISHOP Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a Christian poet of the sixth century, born between 530 and 540 in Upper Italy, between Ceneda and Treviso. HE RECEIVED HIS LITERARY EDUCATION AT RAVENNA He received his literary education at Ravenna. Here he first manifested his poetical ability by a poem celebrating the dedication of a church to St Andrew by the bishop, Vitalis.  He appears to have left Ravenna in 565, crossing the Alps and a part of Southern Germany and reaching in the autumn the banks of the Moselle.  HE SEEMS TO HAVE LEFT RAVENNA IN 565 The stages of his journey may be traced in his poems. They were: Mainz, where he celebrated the construction of the baptistery and church of St George (II, 11 and 12), and in which he compliments the bishop, Sidonius (IX, 9); Cologne, where he accepted the hospitality of Bishop Carentinus (III, 14); Tr...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Advent Saint of the Day Saint feast day December 14 Saint Nicasius, Bishop of Reims, Martyr Blessed Adam, Religious Adrian II., Pope Saint Agnellus, Confessor   Alfred, King of Northumberland Saint Berthold of Ratisbon Saint Elias, Martyr of Ascalon Saint Erré Saint Eutropia, Virgin and Martyr Guillaume Briçonnet, Cardinal Saint John of the Cross Blessed Mary Frances Schervier   Saint Matronian, Hermit Saint Nimatullah Kassab, Priest and Confessor Odolia, Widow Saint Pompeius (Pompey), Bishop Saint Spiridion, Bishop Saint Venantius Fortunatus   Saint Viator, Bishop and Confessor Saints Heron, Arsenius, Isidore, and Dioscorus, Martyrs Saints Justus and Abundius, Martyrs -1412-

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 14th 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 14th of December WELCOME! SAINT NICASIUS, BISHOP OF REIMS, MARTYR In the fifth century an army of barbarians from Germany ravaging part of Gaul, plundered the city of Reims. Nicasius, the holy bishop, had foretold this calamity to his flock.  HE THOUGHT ONLY OF HIS DEAR SPIRITUAL CHILDREN When he saw the enemy at the gates and in the streets, forgetting himself, and solicitous only for his dear spiritual children, he went from door to door encouraging all to patience and constancy, and awaking in every one’s breast the most heroic sentiments of piety and religion.  In endeavouring to save the lives of some of his flock, he exposed himself to the swords of the infidels, who, after a thousand insults and indignities, (which he endured with the meekness and fortitude of a true disciple of God crucified for us) cut off his head.  HIS COMPANIONS Florens his deacon, and Jocond his lector, were massacred by his si...