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SAINT FEAST DAY 15 APRIL: ST CESAR DE BUS

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 15th of April WELCOME! SAINT CESAR DE BUS, PRIEST AND FOUNDER Saint Cesar de Bus was priest and founder of two religious congregations, born February 3, 1544, at Cavaillon, Comtat Venaissin (now France); he died April 15, 1607, at Avignon.  At eighteen he joined the king’s army and took part in the war against the Huguenots. After the war he devoted some time to poetry and painting, but soon made up his mind to join the fleet which was then besieging La Rochelle. Owing to a serious sickness this design could not be carried out.  HIS TIME IN PARIS Up to this time de Bus had led a pious and virtuous life, which, however during a sojourn of three years in Paris was changed for one of pleasure and dissipation. From Paris he went back to Cavaillon. Upon the death of his brother, a canon of Salon, he succeeded in obtaining the vacated benefice, which he sought for the gratification of his worldly ambitions.  HE CHAN...