ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May NICOLAS DE PRÉS, PRIEST AND RELIGIOUS A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) Nicolas de Prés (Nicolaus de Pratis) was a priest of the Order of Celestines, of angelic purity, and a particularly zealous devotee of the Blessed Mother. According to Migne *, he died in A.D. 1516 in Paris in the odour of sanctity. (V. 235) The Bollandists * list this holy priest among the Praetermissi. (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 562) *A hagiography source used by the authors Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations