ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 14th of June WELCOME! SAINT ELISHA, PROPHET Elisha (Eliseus) - Hebrew 'lysh' = 'God is salvation' - was a Prophet of Israel. After learning, on Mount Horeb, that Eliseus, the son of Saphat, had been selected by God as his successor in the prophetic office, Elias [Elijah] set out to make known the Divine will. This he did by casting his mantle over the shoulders of Eliseus, whom he found "one of them that were ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen ". Eliseus delayed only long enough to kill the yoke of oxen, whose flesh he boiled with the very wood of his plough. HE RID HIMSELF OF EVERY POSSESSION After he had shared this farewell repast with his father, mother, and friends, the newly chosen Prophet "followed Elias and ministered to him". (1 Kings 19:8-21) He went with his master from Galgal to Bethel, to Jericho, and thence to the eastern side of the Jordan, the waters of which, touched by the ...