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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 8th of January 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 lives, ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 8th of January WELCOME! SAINT APOLLINARIS, THE APOLOGIST Claudius Apollinaris, Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia, was one of the most illustrious prelates of the second age. Notwithstanding the great encomiums bestowed on him by Eusebius, St Jerome, Theodoret, and ethers, but little is known of his actions; and his writings, which then were held in great esteem, seem now to be all lost.  THE ERRORS OF HERESY He wrote many able treatises against the heretics, and pointed out, as St Jerome testifies, from what philosophical sect each heresy derived its errors.  HIS NOBLE APOLOGY FOR THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION Nothing rendered his name so illustrious, however, as his noble apology for the Christian religion which he addressed to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, about the year 175, soon after the miraculous victory that prince had obtained over the Quadi by the prayers of the Christians.  St Apollinaris reminded the emper...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 8th January 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 lives, so ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 8th of January WELCOME! BLESSED EDWARD WATERSON, PRIEST AND MARTYR [ Blessed Edward Waterson was] born at London; martyred at Newcastle-on-Tyne, January 7, 1594 (1593 old style).] HE REJECTED THE OFFER WITH HORROR A romantic episode marks this martyr’s early career, for as a young man he travelled to Turkey with some English merchants, and attracted the attention of a wealthy Turk, who offered him his daughter in marriage if he would embrace Moslemism. Rejecting the offer with horror, Edward Waterson returned westward through Italy and, coming to Rome, was there reconciled to the Catholic Church by Richard Smith, afterwards Bishop of Chalcedon.  THE PILGRIM-BOOK RECORDS HIS STAY THERE The Pilgrim-book of the English College records his stay there, November 29 - December 11, 1588.  HE WENT TO REIMS TO STUDY FOR THE PRIESTHOOD He then went to Reims to study for the priesthood, arriving there January 24, 1589. He r...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day January 8  Saint Gudula Saint Gudula, Virgin Saint Adelaide, Widow Saint Apollinaris, the Apologist Celestine III., Pope Cunegundes, Virgin and Sacristan Blessed Edward Waterson, Priest and Martyr   Saint Emiliana, Virgin Saint Erhard of Ratisbon, Bishop   Saint Eugenian, Martyr Saint Flodobert, Abbot John Eremita Siculus John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury Saint Lucian of Beauvais, Martyr   Saint Maximus II. of Pavia, Bishop Saint Nathalan, Bishop of Aberdeen   Saint Patheus, Martyr Saint Patiens, Bishop of Metz Paul, Priest and Religious of Catania Paulinus, Bishop of Tiburnia Saint Pega, Virgin Peter, Bishop of Roskilde Saint Petrus Thomas, Bishop Saint Severin of Noricum, Missionary Saint Thorfinn of Hamar, Bishop   Saint Vulsin, Bishop of Shireburn   Saints Theophilus, Deacon, and Helladius, Martyrs Saint Timothy and Companions, Martyrs -0801-

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 8th of January WELCOME! SAINT GUDULA, VIRGIN Saint Gudula was born in Brabant, Belgium, of Witger and Amalberga, in the seventh century; died at the beginning of the eighth century.  After the birth of Gudula her mother Amalberga , who is herself venerated as a saint, embraced the religious life, and according to tradition received the veil at the hands of St Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai (died about 668).  SAINTLY RELATIVES Gudula’s sister was St Reinelda, and her brother, St Emebertus, who succeeded St Vindician as Bishop of Cambrai about 695.  From an early age Gudula proved herself a worthy child of her mother, and with Reinelda and Emebertus lived in an atmosphere of piety and good works. She frequently visited the church of Moorzeele, situated at a distance of two miles from her parents’ house.  THE TRANSLATION OF HER RELICS She was buried at Ham (Eastern Flanders). About a century after her death, he...