ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 7th of April WELCOME! SAINT APHRAATES, ANCHORET (Fourth Age.) Saint Aphraates was descended from an illustrious family in Persia, but infected with the superstitions of idolatry. He had the happiness of attaining to an early knowledge of the truth, which he embraced with his whole heart. Grieving to see it so little known and loved in his own country, regardless of honours and worldly advantages, he renounced all pretensions to them; and, leaving his friends and country, came to Edessa, in Mesopotamia, where Christianity flourished. THE BEST MANNER OF SERVING GOD PERFECTLY There he diligently informed himself what was the best manner of serving God perfectly, and securing his only affair, the eternal salvation of his soul. After some deliberation, he shut himself up in a little cell without the walls of that city, applying himself entirely to the exercises of penance and heavenly contemplation. A GREAT ADVO...