ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 22nd of January WELCOME! SAINT GEORGE, BISHOP OF DEBOLTA, MARTYR Clement V., Pope Saint George (Georgius), Bishop of Debolta, suffered in Bulgaria. The Bulgarians, who since A.D. 679 inhabited the land from the Dniester to the Danube, and from the Danube to the Haemus (i.e. today’s Bessarabia, Moldavia, Wallachia and Bulgaria in the narrower sense), already had brought about devastating consequences during the reign of the Greek Emperor Nicephorus. When Leo the Armenian was in power, they invaded the Eastern Roman Empire and advanced as far as Constantinople. After the capture of Hadrianople in 813, they led many Greek believers, including Bishop George, into captivity. However, many conversions were effected by these captive Christians, so that the Bulgarian princes Orummus, Dacumus, Ditzengus and Curtagan ordered a bloody persecution. Bishop George was martyred, and many others died with him. Saint Archbishop...