SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 6th of May WELCOME! SAINT JEREMIAH, MARTYR OF MILAN Saint Sernin, Toulouse  Saint Jeremiah, a third century martyr of Milan, was executed by the pagan government authorities for being a Christian. He suffered along with  Saint Victor . (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Jeremiah 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. Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 14th of January SAINT JEREMIAH, MARTYR Saint Jeremiah (Jeremias) was, according to Migne *, a monk of the Raithu monastery on the Red Sea, who was killed along with the monastic community in an invasion of the Blemmyer (an Ethiopian tribe) in 373. The Bollandists * mention that 43 monks of the Raithu monastery were martyred on this occasion, but do not name them.  Jeremiah's name in Hebrew is Jirmejah or Jirmejahu and means "Exaltedness of God". (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869, p.151) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Jeremiah 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 ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 1st of May WELCOME! SAINT JEREMIAH THE PROPHET Jeremias [Saint Jeremiah] lived at the close of the seventh and in the first part of the sixth century before Christ; a contemporary of Draco and Solon of Athens. In the year 627, during the reign of Josias, he was called at a youthful age to be a prophet, and for nearly half a century, at least from 627 to 585, he bore the burden of the prophetic office.  FROM A PRIESTLY FAMILY He belonged to a priestly (not a high-priestly) family of Anathoth, a small country town northeast of Jerusalem now called Anata; but he seems never to have performed priestly duties at the temple. The scenes of his prophetic activity were, for a short time, his native town, for the greater part of his life, the metropolis Jerusalem, and, for a time after the fall of Jerusalem, Masphath (Jeremiah 40:6) and the Jewish colonies of the Dispersion in Egypt (Jeremiah 43:6 ff.).  "LOFTY IS JAHWEH" His ...