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SAINT PILEUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS - 19 SEPTEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of September   WELCOME! SAINT PILEUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS St Bertin Abbey, looted by the atheist French Revolution, a movement that destroyed itself from within a few years afterwards  (S.S. Pileus et Soc. M.M.) Saints Pileus (Peleus) and Pilus [Nilus], two bishops, Elias [Elijah], a presbyter, as well as Patermuthius [Pa-Termuthes] and 150 others, some Egyptian, some Palestinian Christians, were martyred about A.D. 310 during the Diocletian persecution (VI. 21-23). (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 924) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Pileus, Pilus, Elias, and Patermuthius may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of t...