ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 30th of December WELCOME! JOHN EVANGELIST STADLER, HAGIOGRAPHER John (Johann) Evangelist Stadler was a Bavarian hagiographer, born at Parkstetten, in the Diocese of Ratisbon [Regensburg], December 24, 1804; he died at Augsburg, December 30, 1868. After completing the humanities in the gymnasium of Straubing in 1821, he entered the University of Landshut, where, in addition to the philosophical and theological studies prescribed for candidates to the priesthood, he devoted much of his time to the study of oriental and modern languages. The year preceding his ordination to the priesthood he spent at the diocesan seminary of Ratisbon, where under the direction of the learned and saintly Michael Wittmann, the future auxiliary Bishop of Ratisbon, he prepared himself for the priesthood. After being ordained priest by Bishop Sailer at Ratisbon June 22, 1827, he was occupied a few months in parochial work at the littl...