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SAINT FEAST DAY 5 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day June 5 St Dorotheus of Tyre Saint Boniface, Missionary Saint Austrebertus, Bishop of Vienne Boniface, Religious Saint Bosa, Deacon and Martyr Brathgit, Virgin and Abbess Blessed Adam Arakawa, Martyr   Saint Bagga, Religious Saint Cerdo, Bishop of Alexandria Saint Dorotheus of Tyre, Martyr Saint Dorotheus the Theban, Abbot Blessed Elsiarius, Religious Saint Eutychius, Bishop of Como Saint Felix of Fritzlar, Martyr Ferdinand the Saint Prince Saint Genesius Comes, Confessor Saint Illidius, Bishop and Confessor Isabel Verdugo, Virgin Saint Leogontius, Bishop of Clermont Maria Baptista Butaroni, Virgin Blessed Meinwerk, Bishop of Paderborn Peter, Prince of Aragon, Religious Saint Sanctus, Martyr Saint Scirbald, Deacon and Martyr Saint Waccarus, Religious and Martyr Saints Evasius and Privatus, Martyrs Saint Florentius and Companions, Martyrs Saint Marcian and Companions, Martyrs Saint Zenaides...

SAINT FEAST DAY 5 JUNE: ST DOROTHEUS OF TYRE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 5th of June WELCOME! SAINT DOROTHEUS OF TYRE, MARTYR Saint Dorotheus was a priest (some say bishop) of Tyre in Phoenicia, and suffered much for the faith under Diocletian, as the ancient Martyrologies testify. He is said to have survived his torments, and to have reached the times of Julian the Apostate.    MARTYRDOM AT ODYSSOPOLIS IN THRACE Saint Theophanes, Anastasius the librarian, and the modern Greeks tell us, that he completed his martyrdom at Odyssopolis in Thrace.  Another Dorotheus , a martyr, chamberlain of Diocletian, is mentioned by Eusebius, and honoured with  Saint Gorgonius on September 9. The same historian speaks of a third Dorotheus, a priest of Antioch in the same age, a most holy man, and perfectly skilled in the scriptures and in the Hebrew tongue. From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Dorotheus may increase...