SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 17th of March WELCOME! SAINT GABRIEL LALEMANT, MISSIONARY AND MARTYR  [Saint Gabriel Lalemant] was a  Jesuit missionary, born at Paris, October 10, 1610; he died in the Huron country, March 17, 1649.  HIS ARRIVAL IN CANADA He was the nephew of Charles and Jerome Lalemant, and became a Jesuit at Paris, March 24 , 1630 . He arrived in Canada, September 20 , 1646 and after remaining in Quebec for two years, was sent to the Huron missions as de Bébeuf ’s assistant.  He was scarcely there a month when the Iroquois attacked the settlement of  St Ignatius which they burned, and then descended on the mission of St Louis where they found  de Bébeuf  and Lalemant. THEIR MARTYR'S CROWN After setting fire to the village and killing many of the inhabitants, they led the two priests back to  St Ignatius   where they were tied to stakes and after horrible torture put to death. Lalemant stood by whil...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 27th of February WELCOME! SAINT GABRIEL POSSENTI, RELIGIOUS   Francis Possenti (1838-1862) was a popular, fun-loving eighteen-year-old two weeks from his graduation in Spoleto, Italy, when on August 22, 1856, he attended a procession in honour of the city’s most prized image of the Madonna. As the icon of Mary passed Francis, his eyes met hers, and he heard in his heart a voice telling him, “Francis, why do you tarry in the world? Arise, make haste, and become a religious.” Immediately, Francis resolved to enter the Passionist Order. At his profession, he took the name Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. HIS DEVOTION TO OUR LADY As a Passionist, he was distinguished by his extraordinary devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her sorrows at the foot of the Cross filled his thoughts. Brother Gabriel took a private vow to promulgate devotion to Mary. In a corner of the monastery garden, on a plot he called “Our Lady’s Bower”,...