ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 2nd of June WELCOME! SAINT POTHINUS, BISHOP, AND COMPANIONS - MARTYRS OF LYONS (A.D. 177.) After the miraculous victory obtained by the prayers of the Christians under Marcus Aurelius, in 174, the church enjoyed a kind of peace, though it was often disturbed in particular places by popular commotions, or by the superstitious fury of certain governors. THE PROGRESS WHICH THE GOSPEL HAD MADE ENRAGED THE DEVIL This appears from the violent persecution which was raised three years after the aforesaid victory, at Vienne and Lyons in Gaul, in 177; whilst St Pothinus was bishop of Lyons, and St Irenaeus, who had been sent thither by St Polycarp out of Asia, was a priest of that city. Many of the principal persons of this church were Greeks, and came from Asia; being, doubtless, led by a zealous desire to propagate the kingdom of Christ, and invited by the great intercourse of traffic between the ports of Asia and Marseil...