ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 15th of October WELCOME! SAINT HOSPICIUS, ANCHORET Saint Hospicius was eminently endowed with a spirit of zeal and penance. The place of his birth is not known; but that of his retirement was a rock near Villefranche, about a league from Nice, in Piedmont. HE LIVED IN A LITTLE TOWER Here he built a monastery, but lived himself in a little tower at some distance: from him the place is called Saint Sospit . The holy hermit loaded himself with a heavy iron chain, and his garment was a rough hair shirt, made of large hair of camels. His food was a little coarse bread, and a few dates, with water; in Lent it consisted only of the roots of certain Egyptian herbs, which merchants brought him from Alexandria to Nice. THE KILLER'S ARM BECAME MOTIONLESS He foretold distinctly the coming of the Lombards, and exhorted the inhabitants to save themselves by flight. When a troop of those barbarians plundered his monaste...