ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 3rd of December WELCOME! SAINT ELOQUIUS, ABBOT From Ireland, Saint Eloquius travelled to France along with Fursey , Foillan and Ultan , and others. At the request of King Clovis, he built a monastery at Laigni, staffed it with monks, and presided over it as its first abbot. Some of the monks, however, were dissatisfied with his insistence on strict monastic discipline, and tried to do away with him. Thereupon he left with some of the pious friars and lived as a hermit near Grimay. He died there in 570 and was glorified by miracles both in life and after death. His body was later brought to the monastery of Baussoire (Diocese of Namur). The translation is mentioned in the martyrologies on October 8. (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, pp. 51-52) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PR...