SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 24th of July Prayer to the Angels and the Saints Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation. In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven. Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses. Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so th...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 3rd of March   WELCOME! SAINT CUNEGUNDES, EMPRESS St Cunegundes (Cunigunde, Kunigunde) was the daughter of Siegfried, the first Count of Luxemburg, and Hadeswige, his pious wife.  She married Henry , Duke of Bavaria, who, upon the death of the Emperor Otho III, was chosen king of the Romans, and crowned on June 6, 1002. She had, by St Henry's consent, before her marriage made a vow of virginity. Calumniators afterwards made vile accusations against her, and the holy empress, to remove the scandal of such a slander, trusting in God to prove her innocence, walked over red-hot ploughshares without being hurt.  SHE TRUSTED GOD TO PROVE HER INNOCENCE Going once to make a retreat in Hesse, she fell dangerously ill, and made a vow to found a monastery, if she recovered, at Kaffungen, near Cassel [Kassel], in the diocese of Paderborn, which she executed in a stately manner, and gave it to nuns of the Order of St Bened...