ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 26th of February WELCOME! SAINT ISABEL, VIRGIN This holy princess was daughter of Lewis VIII. king of France, and Blanche of Castile, and only sister to St Lewis. She was born in 1225, and lost her father when she was but two years old. HEROIC PRACTICE OF ALL VIRTUES She was trained up in the purest maxims of religion, and in the heroic practice of all virtues, and attained so perfect a knowledge of the Latin tongue that she often corrected the compositions of her chaplains in that language. Her character, from her infancy, was a combination of every eminent virtue, and her whole life, from thirteen years of age, was almost, one continued course of prayer, reading, and working. At that age she took a resolution to consecrate her virginity to God, and always shunned all vain amusements, and, as much as obedience to the queen would permit, all ornaments of dress. SHE CONSECRATED HER VIRGINITY TO GOD ...