ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 31st of August WELCOME! SAINT ARISTIDES, AUTHOR Saint Aristides is a second century Saint; he is commemorated on August 31. AN EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITER Both Eusebius and St Jerome speak of St Aristides as an early Christian writer and an eloquent philosopher, who, like his contemporary Quadratus, presented to the Emperor Hadrian an Apology for the Christian Faith (A.D. 133). THE PASSION OF DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE He is cited by Usuard (in his Martyrology for October 3) for his account of the Passion of St Dionysius the Areopagite. This work, which was treasured by the Athenians as a noble monument of antiquity, is now apparently lost. (From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)