ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 6th of November ST APIAN OF PAVIA, MONK Saint Apian (Appianus, Appianus, Apuanus) was born in Liguria and entered the monastery of St Peter "in Coelo aureo" , where he was later appointed supplier (oeconomus) by his abbot. Sent by his superiors to Comachio (Comaclum, Cimaculum) to provide and dispatch salt for the monastery, he went about his business during the summer, without neglecting his godly practices. In winter, however, when there was nothing to do, he shut himself up in a narrow cell near that city, and lived enclosed in the strictest mortification. He died there; this happened in the year 800. When the inhabitants of Pavia wanted to secretly fetch his body from there, the vessel on to which they had hoisted the holy monk's dead body could not be moved despite all efforts, so that the Pavians returned home without having achieved anything. Probably to protect his mortal remains from civ...