ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 1st of September WELCOME! SAINTS ARCANUS AND AEGIDIUS, HERMITS [They lived in the 10th century.] Saint Arcanus, a native of Arcadia, and Saint Aegidius [Saint Giles], of Spain, were hermits at Borgo-di-San-Sepolcro ( Burgum, S. Sepulchri ) in Umbria, and in a sense the founders of this place. Both made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to visit the holy places, and it was probably here that they met and from then onwards journeyed together. Equipped with relics from the Holy Land, they then made a pilgrimage together to Rome to the tombs of the Holy Apostles, in order to also pray in the New Jerusalem. Afterwards, they continued their travels through the March of Ancona to Venice to visit other holy places in Italy. One day, needing a rest, they sat down by a certain spring (called " the spring of St Peregrine " by the Italian writer Jacobillus), and Saint Arcanus, overcome by sleep, dozed off and heard a voice: "H...