ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 15th of September WELCOME! SAINT APER, OR EVRE, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR He was born at Troyes in Champagne, as was his sister, the holy virgin Apronia , honoured at Troyes and Toul on July 15. Upon the death of Saint Auspicius , sixth bishop of Troyes, in Champagne, about the year 486, he was chosen to fill that chair, for which he was prepared by a life devoted to the divine service from his infancy. Baronius, F. Peter Chifflet, and F. Longueval think him the same with Aper, who was married, had been a judge, and, after having led for some years a worldly life, was converted to God, and served him with great fervour, as we learn from three letters of St Paulinus to him. THREE LETTERS OF ST PAULINUS GIVE US SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION But the authors of the new Gallia Christiana, and Calmet, in his history of Lorraine, show, that this Aper must have been above one hundred years old before he could ha...