ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 18th of June WELCOME! SAINT AMAND, BISHOP OF BORDEAUX We read in Saint Paulinus of Nola that St Amand served God from his infancy; that he was educated in the knowledge of the scriptures, and that he preserved his innocence from those stains which are generally contracted in the commerce of the world. HE INSTRUCTED ST PAULINUS Being ordained priest by St Delphin, bishop of Bordeaux, who employed him in his church, he manifested great zeal for the glory of God. It was he who instructed St Paulinus in the mysteries of faith, to prepare him for baptism. From this time there subsisted between them a friendship. MANY LETTERS Paulinus wrote him many letters, and we see by those that remain of them that he paid the greatest veneration to Amand’s virtue. After the death of St Delphin, St Amand was elected to the see of Bourdeaux, but shortly after resigned the dignity in favour of St Severinus, upon whose death he w...