ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 8th of October WELCOME! SAINTS PALATIAS AND LAURENTIA OF ANCONA, MARTYRS Palatias and Laurentia are 4th century Martyr Saints; their memorial is October 8. Palatias was a lady of Ancona in Italy, converted to Christianity by her slave Laurentia. They both fell victims to the fury of the persecution under Diocletian, and were executed (A.D. 302) at Fermo, a town not far distant from Ancona. It is at Fermo that their Relics are enshrined. (Information from The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate - 📷 St Palatias) PRAYER: Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy martyrs Palatias and Laurentia, not to think high-mindedly, but to grow in humility pleasing to you; that, despising what is base, she may with unbounded love diligently do whatever is right. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spi...