ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 8th of May SAINT METRONES, PENITENT Saint Metrones is a beautiful and edifying example of the strictest penance. He lived - at a time unknown - with a chain fastened to a stone like a criminal, in Verona. Perhaps a German by birth, but more likely, judging by the derivation of his name, a Greek (cf. Maji VII. 654), he had committed incest with his daughter, although unknowingly. When he later intended to become a priest, the bishop imposed a penance on him, which he aggravated in the manner indicated above. He threw the key to the chains into the river Etsch, with a vow not to get rid of them until a fish was caught that had the key in its entrails. After several years, this case really happened through divine providence. Stone and chain have long been shown at St Vitale, where the saint rests. He died in Verona. An elevation of his relics took place on May 7, 1658; on that occasion they were placed into a more valuable ...