ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 8th of June WELCOME! SAINT JACQUES BERTHIEU, PRIEST AND MARTYR St Jacques Berthieu... was born in 1838 in France. His childhood was spent working and studying surrounded by his family. St Jacques entered the minor and then the major seminary of the Diocese of Saint-Flour, and was ordained a priest on May 21, 1864. His Bishop named him vicar in Roannes-Saint-Marie, where he replaced an ill and aged priest. The years went by and St Jacques began to feel attracted to religious life. He received permission from his Bishop to pursue that calling, entering the Jesuit novitiate in Pau. THE MISSION FIELD While under training he asked his superiors to send him to the mission field. In a letter of July 28, 1875 St Jacques confided to one of his friends: ‘I have been designated as a future apostle to the Malagasy (Madagascar); am supposed to leave here at the end of August, and then Marseilles and France on September 26, probably never ...