ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 16th of February WELCOME! SAINT ONESIMUS, DISCIPLE OF ST PAUL, BISHOP St Onesimus was a Phrygian by birth, slave to Philemon, a person of note of the city of Colossae, converted to the faith by St Paul. HE HAD TO FLEE BECAUSE OF HIS DODGY DEED Having robbed his master, and being obliged to fly, he providentially met with St Paul, then a prisoner for the faith at Rome, who there converted and baptised him, and sent him with his canonical letter of recommendation to Philemon, by whom he was pardoned, set at liberty, and sent back to his spiritual father, whom he afterwards faithfully served. AFTER HIS CONVERSION, HE LED AN EXEMPLARY LIFE AND BECAME A BISHOP That apostle made him, with Tychicus, the bearer of his epistle to the Colossians, and afterwards, as St Jerome and other fathers witness, a preacher of the gospel, and a bishop. The Greeks say, he was crowned with martyrdom under Domitian, in the year 95. Bede, Ado...