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SAINTS EUTYCHIUS AND GENTIAN, MARTYRS - 11 DECEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 11th of December WELCOME! SAINTS EUTYCHIUS AND GENTIAN, MARTYRS Saints Eutychius and Gentian (Gentianus) were martyred in Spain. The name of the first is also listed in the Roman Martyrology *. Migne * relates that this Saint Eutychius (French St-Eutyche or St-Toy) was the patron of a priory dependent on Seauve (Salvia), a Benedictine abbey founded in 1020 in the diocese of Nismes in Languedoc. In Merida (Spain) he is known and venerated as Saint Oye . (El., Mg.) (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 144) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Eutychius and Gentian may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the ...