SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 17th of September WELCOME! SAINT COLUMBA OF CORDOBA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR This saint was a holy nun in the monastery of Tabanos, who was beheaded for her faith by the Moors, under their King Mahomad, in Spain, in 853.  SHE WAS KILLED FOR THE CHRISTIAN FAITH Her body was thrown into the river Guadalquiver, but recovered by the Christians.  HER RELICS Her relics are venerated, part in the priory of St Columba, part in the royal abbey of our Lady at Niagara, but both in Old Castile.  From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints PRAYER: May blessed Columba, Virgin and Martyr, who was ever pleasing to you by the merit of her chastity and by her trust in your power, implore for us your forgiveness, we beseech you, O God. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 9th of June WELCOME! SAINT COLUMBA (COLUMKILLE), ABBOT ⬅️ Litany of the Irish Saints Saint Columba commonly pronounced Colme, was one of the greatest patriarchs of the monastic Order in Ireland, and the apostle of the Picts.  To distinguish him from other saints of the same name, he was surnamed Columkille, from the great number of monastic cells, called by the Irish Killes, of which he was the founder.  SAINT FINIAN WAS HIS TEACHER He was of most noble extraction from Neil, and was born at Gartan, in the county of Tyrconnel, in 521. He learned from his childhood that there is nothing great, nothing worth our esteem or pursuit, which does not advance the divine love in our souls, to which he totally devoted himself with an entire disengagement of his heart from the world, and in perfect purity of mind and body. He learned the divine scriptures and the lessons of an ascetic life under the holy bishop Saint Finian , i...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 12th of December WELCOME! SAINT COLUMBA OF TERRYGLASS, ABBOT Saint Columba was a son of Crinthainn and a disciple of St Finnian of Clonard. When the latter was in extremis, from the plague, Columba administered Holy Viaticum. Having completed his studies, he took charge of Caemban, Fintan, and Mocumin, who are numbered among the saints.  HE FOUNDED THE MONASTERY OF TERRYGLASS He founded the celebrated monastery of Tirdaglas, or Terryglass, 548.  It is said that he visited Tours and brought thence relics of Saint Martin .  He died of the plague, December 13, 552, and was buried within the precincts of his own monastery at Terryglass. Some fifteen other saints of Ireland, bearing the name Columba, are mentioned in the Martyrology of Gorman.  Source: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Columba may increase our devotion and promote our ...