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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 20th of January WELCOME! SAINT FABIAN, POPE AND MARTYR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Fabian succeeded St Anterus in the pontificate, in the year 236.  A DOVE SETTLED ON THE POPE'S HEAD Eusebius relates, that in an assembly of the people and clergy, held for the election of a pastor in his room, a dove, unexpectedly appearing, settled, to the great surprise of all present, on the head of St Fabian; and that this miraculous sign united the votes of the clergy and people in promoting him, though not thought of before, as being a layman and a stranger.  HE GOVERNED THE CHURCH SIXTEEN YEARS He governed the church sixteen years, sent St Dionysius and other preachers into Gaul, and condemned Privatus, a broacher of a new heresy in Africa, as appears from St Cyprian.  "AN INCOMPARABLE MAN" St Fabian died a glorious martyr in the persecution of Decius, in 250, as St Cyprian and St Jerome witness. The former, writing...

   ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 20th of January WELCOME! BLESSED CYPRIAN MICHAEL IWENE TANSI, PRIEST AND RELIGIOUS Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi was born in 1903 in Igboezunu, Southern Nigeria. His parents were Igbo farmers who practised the "traditional religion". In 1909 he was sent to the Christian village of Nduka, where he was baptised three years later by Irish missionaries and given the name Michael.  HE ENTERED ST PAUL'S SEMINARY In 1925, against the wishes of his family, he entered St Paul's Seminary in Igbariam. After finishing his studies, he was ordained a priest in the cathedral of Onitsha on December 19, 1937. He was appointed parish priest of Dunukofia (Umudioka region), where he set up marriage preparation centres where girls and young women could be sheltered and receive Christian formation, and established the League of Mary, with remarkable success. A TRUE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY On foot or bicycle, Fr Tansi went from ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day January 20 Saint Sebastian   Saint Sebastian, Martyr Saint Adventor, Martyr Saint Aenaes, Abbot Blessed Angelo Paoli, Priest Blessed Basil Moreau, Priest and Founder Blessed Eustochium, Abbess of Monte Vergine Caducanus, Bishop of Bangor Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, Priest   Saint Elfleda, Abbess of Ramsey Blessed Eusebius of Gran, Abbot Saint Euthymius, Abbot Saint Fabian, Pope and Martyr   Saint Fechin, Abbot Saint Gabriel, Abbot Saint Hadoludus, Bishop of Mans Louis of Calatagirone, Penitent Saint Maria Cristina Brando, Virgin and Foundress Maria Susanna Zeiller, Virgin Saint Maurus, Bishop of Cesena Michel Triquier, Religious Saint Minausius, Abbot of Saint-Claude Saint Molagga, Abbot Saint Neophytus, Martyr Saint Octavius, Martyr Blessed Zechariah, Religious Saint Bassus and Companions, Martyrs -2001-

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY   Saints celebrated on the 20th of January WELCOME! SAINT SEBASTIAN, MARTYR Saint Sebastian was born at Narbonne, in Gaul, but his parents were of Milan, in Italy, and he was brought up in that city. A FERVENT SERVANT OF CHRIST He was a fervent servant of Christ, and though his natural inclinations gave him an aversion to a military life, yet, to be better able, without suspicion, to assist the confessors and martyrs in their sufferings, he went to Rome, and entered the army under the Emperor Carinus, about the year 283.  It happened that the martyrs, Marcus and Marcellianus , under sentence of death, appeared in danger of being shaken in their faith by the tears of their friends: Sebastian seeing this, stepped in, and made them a long exhortation to constancy, which he delivered with the holy fire that strongly affected all his hearers.  MIRACLES Zoe, the wife of Nicostratus, having for six years lost the use of speech, by a palsy ...