ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 2nd of September WELCOME! SAINT AGRICOLA, BISHOP OF AVIGNON The name Agricola (Agricolus, Agricol) is derived from the Latin: "Tiller of the soil," "Farmer." Saint Agricola was born in Avignon in the year 630; his father was Saint Magnus - who later became the bishop of that city - and his mother was Gandaltruda (or Austadlala ). In his childhood, Saint Agricola was entrusted for his education to the fathers of the renowned monastery of Lérins; there, as he grew into a young man, he gave such extraordinary proofs of holiness and virtue that he already commanded the admiration of all. After spending sixteen years in monastic solitude - "as a zealous cultivator of his heart" (agrum cordis strenuus Agricola perpetuo excolens) - he was made Archdeacon of the Church of Avignon (against his will). Later, when his father, Saint Magnus (who had meanwhile been raised to the episcopal see of that city)...