ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 7th of June ST MERIADEC, BISHOP OF VANNES, CONFESSOR Whilst Saint Meriadec [Meriadoc] lived in the world, he employed the revenue of a great estate of which he was master, in charitable works, and at length stripped himself of it principally in favour of the poor. IN THE WILDERNESS From that time he lived a recluse in a desert place, a mile from the castle of Pontivi in the viscounty of Rohan in Brittany. The viscount himself visited the saint, and had the greatest veneration for his sanctity. THE FATHER OF ALL THE DISTRESSED The canons and people of Vannes, seconded by the bishops of the province, compelled him much against his will to fill the episcopal see of that city. With this dignity his charity to the poor received a great increase; for he looked upon himself by that sacred character as it were anointed the father and comforter of all the distressed. Under his episcopal ornaments he wore a rough hai...