ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 27th of August WELCOME! SAINT CAESARIUS OF ARLES, BISHOP Saint Caesarius was born in 470, in the territory of Challons, on the Saone, and descended from a family of distinguished piety. When but seven years old, he often gave his clothes to poor people whom he met begging. In his youth he resolved to renounce the world. Eonius, the archbishop, ordained him deacon, and afterwards priest; soon after he made him abbot of a monastery built in an island in the Rhone, within the suburbs of the city. Three years after, lying on his death-bed, he recommended him for his successor. The saint fled, and hid himself among the Roman sumptuous tombs, a great number of which are remaining to this day near the city; but being discovered, he was obliged to acquiesce in the unanimous election of the clergy and the whole city, in 501. HE WAS OBLIGED TO ACQUIESCE IN THE UNANIMOUS ELECTION He was then thirty years old, and he...