SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 19th of May SAINT IVES, PRIEST AND CONFESSOR Today, we also commemorate Saint Ives. The Roman Martyrology states:  "In Bretagne, Saint Ives, priest and confessor, who, for the love of Christ, defended the interests of orphans, widows, and the poor." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Ives may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 25th of April WELCOME! SAINT IVES, BISHOP   [Saint Ivo, Yves, Ivia of Slepe, Huntingdonshire.] He was a Persian bishop, who preached the faith in England about the same time with St Augustine, in the seventh century; and having for some time prepared himself for his last passage, by solitude, watching, prayer, and fasting, at Slepe, now St Ives, in Huntingdonshire, he there died and was buried.  HIS RELICS His body was found by a ploughman, in a pontifical habit and entire, in 1001, on April 24. By the fame of miracles performed at his relics, many resorted to the place, and a Benedictine priory was there built, though the saint’s body was soon after translated to the great abbey of Ramsey.  MIRACLES WROUGHT AT HIS TOMB Whitman, the third abbot at Ramsey, wrote a book of the miracles wrought at his tomb, which was afterwards augmented by Goscelin, a monk of Canterbury, about the year 1096.  THE CHURCH IN ...