SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 17th of October WELCOME! SAINTS ETHELBERT AND ETHELBRIGHT, PRINCES AND MARTYRS These two saints were brothers, sons of King Ermenred of Kent and his wife Oslava, grandsons of Edbald and Emma, ​​daughter of Clothar II, King of the Franks, and great-grandson of Saint Ethelbert, the first Christian king of Kent. After their parents' untimely death, the two brothers were entrusted to King Egbert for their upbringing and education, but at the instigation of the godless courtier Thunnur (Thunor), with the consent of the king, the 15-year-old youths were killed. This happened between A.D. 668 and 670.  To atone for the evil deed, Egbert (according to Migne) gave the sister of the assassinated princes, who was called Ermenburga , 48 miles of land on the Isle of Thanet, which she used to found and endow the monastery of Minstrey. The bodies of the two brothers were brought to the island of Nomsey in 741, where they are venerat...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 20th of May 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 that...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 24th of February WELCOME! SAINT ETHELBERT OF KENT, CONFESSOR Saint Ethelbert was king of Kent, the fifth descendant from Hengist, who first settled the English Saxons in Britain, in 448, and the foundation of whose kingdom is dated in 455. Ethelbert married, in his father’s life-time, Bertha, the only daughter of Charibert, king of Paris, and cousin-german to Clotaire, king of Soissons, and Childebert, king of Austrasia, whose two sons, Theodobert, and Theodoric, or Thierry, reigned after his death, the one in Austrasia, the other in Burgundy.  HIS VERY PIOUS WIFE Ethelbert succeeded his father Ermenric in 560. His queen Bertha was a very zealous and pious Christian princess, and by the articles of her marriage had free liberty to exercise her religion; for which purpose she was attended by a venerable French prelate, named Luidhard, or Lethard, bishop of Senlis. He officiated constantly in an old church dedicated to...