ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 3rd of July WELCOME! SAINT GUTHAGON, RECLUSE Saint Guthagon was an Irishman of royal blood, who, forsaking the world to labour in securing eternal happiness, led a penitential, contemplative life at Oostkerk, near Bruges, in Flanders, with B. Gillon, an individual companion. MIRACLES He was famed for his eminent sanctity, attested by miracles after his death. His shrine is there held in veneration, and a chapel built in his honour. He is said to have lived in the eighth century. THE TRANSLATION OF HIS RELICS Gerald, bishop of Tournay, translated the relics of this saint on July 3, 1059, in the presence of the abbots of Dun [Ten Duinen], Oudenbourg, and Ececkout; and on October 1, 1444, they were visited by Nicholas, suffragan bishop of Tournay. From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Guthagon may increase our devot...