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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER   Saints celebrated on the 24th of October WELCOME! SAINT MAGLORIUS, BISHOP Today, we also commemorate Saint Maglorius . The Roman Martyrology states:  "In Bretagne, the departure from this life of Saint Maglorius, bishop, whose body rests at Paris." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Maglorius 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 OCTOBER   Saints celebrated on the 24th of October WELCOME! SAINT MAGLOIRE, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR  Saint Magloire was fellow-disciple of St Sampson under St Iltutus in Wales, his cousin and his zealous companion in his apostolical labours in Armorica or Brittany, and he succeeded him in the abbey of Dole, and in the episcopal character.  His labours were attended with a great harvest of souls. After three years, he resigned his bishopric, being seventy years old, and retired into a desert on the continent, and some time after into the isle of Jersey, where he founded and governed a monastery of sixty monks.  He lived on barley bread and pulse, ate only after sunset, and on Wednesdays and Fridays took no nourishment at all: on Sundays and festivals he added to his bread a little fish. For six months before he died he never stirred out of the church, but when he was obliged by some necessity; and he frequently repeated with sighs: One thi...