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  SAINT HESYCHIUS, PRIEST According to the Greek Synaxarium (Mart. I. 873) ,  Saint Hesychius was born and brought up in Jerusalem. By A.D. 412 he had already acquired a reputation for extensive learning. He was probably born in the second half of the 4th century. Saint Gregory of Nazianzen is thought to have been his teacher. More than in all other sciences he was versed in the professions pertaining to God and divine things.  He sought solitude, became a monk and lived in the desert, where he visited the fathers in the monasteries and gathered the flowers of virtue like the bee collects honey. His piety persuaded the archbishop of Jerusalem to ordain him a priest. He also travelled to all the holy places where Jesus Christ lived, taught and suffered and devoted himself to the interpretation of the holy scriptures. He is said to have written a commentary on the book of Leviticus. Homilies and a compendium of church history which bears his name and of which a few fragmen...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER   Saints celebrated on the 3rd of October 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 ...