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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 28th of June   WELCOME! SAINT MARCELLA, MARTYR OF ALEXANDRIA A companion of  Saint Serenus , Saint Marcella obtained the martyr's crown in Alexandria. (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  5, Augsburg, 1882, pp. 256-57) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Marcella 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 31st of January WELCOME! SAINT MARCELLA, WIDOW  Saint Marcella is styled by  Saint Jerome  the glory of the Roman ladies. Having lost her husband in the seventh month of her marriage, she rejected the suit of Cerealis the consul, uncle of Gallus Caesar, and resolved to imitate the lives of the ascetics of the East.  HER HOLY LIFE She abstained from wine and flesh, employed all her time in pious reading, prayer, and visiting the churches of the apostles and martyrs, and never spoke with any man alone.  ROME WAS IN A SHORT TIME FILLED WITH MONASTERIES Her example was followed by many virgins of the first quality, who put themselves under her direction, and Rome was in a short time filled with monasteries.  ELEVEN LETTERS OF ST JEROME We have eleven letters of St Jerome to her in answer to her religious queries.  THE GOTHS PLUNDERED ROME The Goths under Alaric plundered Rome in 410. St Marce...