ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 10th of May SAINT MIRUS, HERMIT The holy hermit Mirus is venerated at Sorigo (Soricum) on the northern shore of Lake Como, where his relics rest in the nearby Church of St Michael. His name is actually Aemilius, according to others Imminus, and the name Mirus (the wonderful) is only an epithet, because his mother was already sixty years old when she gave birth to him. (Around the year 1036.) His parents are unknown according to one version, according to the other they are called Erasmus and Drusiana and lived in Canzo (Cantium). Prado, situated in the valley of Chiavenna, is said to be the birthplace of his mother. She died a few weeks after his birth. After he turned twenty years old, he also lost his father. Then he gave his fortune to the poor, put on the penitential garb and made a pilgrimage to Rome. On his way home, in Luntello, a village in Lombardy, the population was in great distress because a prolo...