ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 16th of June SAINT MAMILIANUS, BISHOP OF PALERMO, MARTYR This Saint Mamilianus, Bishop of Palermo, is to be distinguished from his successor of the same name, who is venerated on September 15. The former is a martyr, the latter a confessor. Around the year 297 our Saint Mamilianus was already Bishop of Palermo, but it is uncertain when he mounted this shepherd's chair. Although at that time the Christian religion was subjected to the severest persecutions, he managed to make conversions even in the imperial governorship, tutoring and baptising the daughter of Aurelian, the imperial prefect of Sicily: Saint Nympha. According to Pirrus *, both were thrown into boiling oil, which by God's help did not harm them. Then they took refuge with other Christians, named Proculus, Eustatius, and Goboldeus in the crypt at Bucina, not far from the lighthouse of Portus Romanus (Porto). Here Mamilianus died. In 1098, their mortal...