ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 12th of November WELCOME! SAINT LIVINUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR Saint Livinus was a learned and zealous Irish bishop, who went over into Flanders to preach the faith to the idolaters. To enter upon that work by dedicating himself a holocaust to God, he spent thirty days in prayer at the tomb of Saint Bavo, at Ghent, and offered there every day the holy sacrifice. After this solemn consecration of himself to his Redeemer, he began to announce the word of life, and converted many about the country of Alost and Hautem. Having cultivated the study of poetry in his youth, he composed an elegy on Saint Bavo, who died only six years before him. THEY WANTED HIM TO STOP PREACHING THE GOSPEL Saint Livinus was massacred by the pagans, at Esche, [the pagans tried to cut his tongue off to stop him preaching the Gospel] in the year 633, according to Colgan, who mentions him to have been bishop of Dublin before he went to the mi...