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SAINT FEAST DAY 1 JULY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day July 1 Saint Oliver Plunket, Bishop and Martyr Saint Aaron, Levite Alellus, Archbishop of Armagh Saint Anthony, Martyr of Rome Saint Calais of Anisole, Abbot Saint Cybar, Recluse Saint Domitian, Abbot Saint Eparchius, Abbot Saint Epasus, Martyr Ernin Blessed Ezzo, Bishop of Salzburg Saint Gal, Bishop of Clermont Blessed Hechard, Priest and Religious Hermes Engler, Religious Saint Hilary of Oisé, Priest and Confessor Saint Junipero Serra Saint Kentigern, Bishop Saint Leonorus, Bishop Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr Saint Martin, Bishop of Vienne Saint Orion, Martyr of Mesopotamia Peter of Mechelen, Religious Pieter Schebbe, Religious Pietro of San Martino, Religious Saint Rumold, Bishop and Martyr Saint Sanuda, Hermit Saint Serf, Bishop Saint Shenoute, Abbot   Saint Simeon Salus, Hermit Saint Theobald, Archbishop of Vienne Saint Theobald of Provins, Hermit Saint Thierry, Abbot Blessed Thomas...

SAINT FEAST DAY 1 JULY: ST OLIVER PLUNKET

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 1st of July WELCOME! SAINT OLIVER PLUNKET, BISHOP AND MARTYR Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, born at Loughcrew near Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, 1629; died July 11, 1681*. His is the brightest name in the Irish Church throughout the whole period of persecution. He was connected by birth with the families which had just then been ennobled, the Earls of Roscommon and Fingall, as well as with Lords Louth and Dunsany.  Till his sixteenth year, his education was attended to by Patrick Plunket, Abbot of Saint Mary’s, Dublin, brother of the first Earl of Fingall, afterwards bishop, successively, of Ardagh and Meath.  He witnessed the first triumphs of the Irish Confederates, and, as an aspirant to the priesthood, set out for Rome in 1645, under the care of Father Scarampo, of the Roman Oratory. As a student of the Irish College of Rome, which some twenty years before had been founded by Cardinal Ludov...