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SAINT FEAST DAY 8 OCTOBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day October 8 Saint Keyna, Virgin Saint Amor of Aquitaine Antonius Hovaeus, Abbot Saint Artemon, Priest and Martyr Saint Badilo, Abbot of Leuze Saint Benedicta, Virgin and Martyr Blessed Compagnus, Abbot Saint Demetrius, Martyr Blessed Elias, Abbot Saint Evodius, Bishop of Rouen Ewigius, Confessor Saint Felix, Bishop of Como Blessed Francisco Alarcon Rubio, Priest and Martyr Saint Fulgentius, Bishop of Ecija Blessed John Adams, Priest and Martyr Blessed John Lowe, Priest and Martyr Saint Laurentia, Virgin and Martyr Martius, Hermit Saint Nestor, Martyr Saint Pelagia, Penitent Saint Peter, Martyr of Seville Petrus de Queriolett, Priest Saint Renfredis, Abbess Saint Reparata, Virgin and Martyr Blessed Robert Dibdale, Priest and Martyr Saint Simeon Senex Saint Thaïs, Penitent Saint Dionysius and Companions, Martyrs Saint Eusebia, Abbess and Martyr, and 39 Companions, Martyrs Saints Palatias and La...

SAINT FEAST DAY 8 OCTOBER: ST KEYNA , VIRGIN

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER   Saints celebrated on the 8th of October WELCOME! SAINT KEYNA, VIRGIN Braghan, prince of part of Wales, who has left his name to Brecknockshire, was happy in an offspring of saints.  A RECLUSE IN A WOOD  The most famous were St Canoc, who founded many monasteries in Ireland; and Saint Keyna, surnamed by the Welsh, The Virgin, who lived a recluse in a wood in Somersetshire, at a distance from her own country, near the town of Cainsham, which seems so called from her, and stands on the Avon not far from Bristol.  SERPENTS TURNED INTO STONES Spiral stones in the figure of serpents have been found in that country, which some of the people pretend to have been serpents turned into stones by her prayers. They seem either petrifactions or sports of nature in uncommon crystallizations in a mineral soil.  MONUMENTS REMINDING OF ST KEYNA St Keyna is said to have died in her own country in the fifth or sixth century. Many places in Wales a...