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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th of December WELCOME! SAINT DOMINIC OF SILOS, ABBOT AND CONFESSOR Saint Dominic, the Benedictine Abbot, celebrated on account of the many miracles that he performed, was born at Canas, a village in Spain, of indigent but virtuous parents. In his youth, he guarded his father’s sheep, and led a very innocent life, occupying much of his time in prayer and devout meditation.  Thus the desire grew slowly on him to leave all temporal affairs and serve the Almighty in a desert.  In consequence of this, he left his home, chose a convenient place, built a small hut and there passed some time in great peace and calmness of heart.  HE LEFT THE SOLITUDE God, however, inspired him with the thought that it would be much more beneficial for his soul, if others were to guide him in the path of virtue which he had resolved to pursue.  Hence Dominic left his solitude, went to the monastery of St Aemilian, where he w...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th of December WELCOME!   SAINT PAUL OF LATRUS, OR LATRA, HERMIT The father of this saint, who was an officer in the imperial army, being slain on board the Grecian fleet, in an engagement with the Mahometans, his mother Eudocia retired from Pergamus, in Asia, which was the place of his nativity, into Bithynia, taking her two sons with her.  Basil, who was the eldest, rejecting the proposal of an advantageous match, took the monastic habit upon Mount Olympus in that country; but soon after, for the sake of greater solitude, retired to the laura founded by St Elias, and afterwards to Brachiana, near Mount Latrus.  When their mother was dead, he engaged his younger brother to embrace the same state of life. Though young, he had experienced the world sufficiently to understand the emptiness and dangers of its enjoyments.  THE EMPTINESS AND DANGERS OF THE WORLD'S ENJOYMENTS He saw that even if it bestows...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th 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 20th of December WELCOME! SAINT HOGERUS, ARCHBISHOP OF HAMBURG-BREMEN Saint Hogerus, also called  Hoger, Hojerus and Hotgerns, was first coadjutor, then successor to  Archbishop Adelgarius of Hamburg-Bremen.  HE HAD BEEN A MONK AT CORVEY From his earlier life we ​​only know that he was a monk at  Corvey . Here, according to the Bollandists (Aug. III. 211), one could see his picture in 1685 among the statues of other saints and blessed who had lived in the monastery, with the title of "St Hogeri Archiep. Brem.".  Bucelin calls him "saint'. The old church registers of the (former) Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen also call him "holy and chosen". They add that he watched over church discipline with great severity.  HE WAS ARCHBISHOP UNTIL A.D. 915 He was Archbishop from 909–915. The last years of his life were marred by war and the plagues of war, especially the devastation of churches and monaste...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th 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 20th of December WELCOME! SAINT ATHALIA, ABBESS St Athalia (Attala, Atala, Athala, Aurelia),  first abbess of the monastery of St Stephan of Strasbourg, was the daughter of the Alsatian Duke Adalbert, brother of  Abbess Odilia (December 13), and his first wife Gerlinde.  SHE WAS EDUCATED IN THE HOHENBURG MONASTERY Along with her two sisters  Eugenia and  Gundelind  she was educated by her aunt, St Odilia, in the Hohenburg monastery in Alsace.  When her father built St Stephen's Abbey in Strasbourg for 30 nuns in 717, he handed over the management of this foundation to his daughter Attala.  A MODEL FOR THE SISTERS IN ST STEPHEN For twenty years St Attala was a model for the sisters in St Stephen and did a lot of good for the poor.  She died on December 3, 741 at the age of 54. Her mortal shell was displayed for veneration of the faithful for 5 weeks before being buried. At the...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day December 20 Blessed Anton Durcovici, Bishop and Martyr Saint Aristo, Bishop of Ratzeburg Saint Athalia, Abbess   Saint Columbus, Abbot Conrad, Religious Saint Dominic, Bishop and Confessor Saint Dominic of Silos Saint Fachanan, Bishop of Kilfenora Gregory VI., Pope Gundekar I., Bishop of Eichstätt Saint Hogerus, Bishop   Saint Julius, Martyr Saint Liberius, Bishop of Ravenna Ospitius Saint Paul of Latrus, Hermit Saint Philogonius, Bishop Theodore II., Pope Saint Ursicinus, Religious Saint Zephyrinus, Pope and Martyr   Saints Ammon, Zeno, Ptolemy, Ingen, and Theophilus, Martyrs   Saints Eugene and Macarius, Martyrs Saints Liberatus and Bajulus, Martyrs -2012-

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th of December WELCOME! BLESSED ANTON DURCOVICI, BISHOP AND MARTYR Blessed Anton Durcovici was born on May 17, 1888 in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, Austria. In 1895 Blessed Anton’s family moved to the Romanian Kingdom and he completed his studies in Lasi and in Bucharest. In 1906 Blessed Anton joined the Catholic Seminary, finishing his priestly studies in Rome. Being ordained a priest in 1910, Blessed Anton returned to Romania where he first worked as a schoolteacher in the Bucharest Seminary and then as the parish administrator in Tulcea. HE WAS CONSECRATED BISHOP OF LASI After Romania entered World War I, Blessed Anton was sent to an internment camp, being an Austrian citizen, until freed under the orders of King Ferdinand I. Blessed Anton then became rector of the Bucharest Seminary and held this office until 1948, when he was consecrated as the Bishop of Lasi. PLACED UNDER SURVEILLANCE As a Catholic Bishop he became an e...