ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 5th of May WELCOME! SAINT ANGELUS, CARMELITE FRIAR, MARTYR Saint Angelus was of Jewish parents, and a native of Jerusalem. Being converted to the faith, he embraced the austere life of certain anchorets on the banks of the Jordan; from whom he passed to the hermits of the desert on Mount Carmel. HE BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST FRIARS OF THAT HOLY ORDER He seems to have been one amongst them at the time when the blessed Albert drew up a rule for them in 1206: at least he became one of the first friars of that holy Order. HE HAD SEVERELY REPROVED A CERTAIN POWERFUL MAN'S INCESTUOUS BEHAVIOUR Coming to preach in the West, he was massacred by the heretics at Licate or Leocato, in Sicily, in 1225, by the contrivance of a powerful rich man, whose incest with a sister he had severely reproved, and had converted her from that scandalous life. The annals of the Order furnish the most material circumstances of his glorious ...