ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 21st of January WELCOME! SAINT MEINRAD, PRIEST AND MARTYR Saint Meinrad was a saint of Eastern France, who became when in his twenty-fifth year a monk at Reichenau, near Lake Constance. HE WAS ORDAINED A PRIEST After being ordained priest, he was employed for some years in the care of souls and in the instruction of youth. SOLITUDE But in middle life he felt called to solitude, and at length found a resting-place in a dense forest in Switzerland, where he built a cell and a chapel, placing therein a statue of the Blessed Virgin presented to him by a Benedictine Abbess. OUR LADY OF THE HERMITS This statue came to be called that of "Our Lady of the Hermits," and the chapel itself Einsiedeln (Hermitage). Saint Meinrad, after several years passed there as a Recluse, was murdered by some ruffians, who thought to discover hidden treasures in the poor hermitage (A.D. 861). HE IS TRADITIONALLY VENERAT...