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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of September   WELCOME! SAINT PILEUS AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS St Bertin Abbey, looted by the atheist French Revolution, a movement that destroyed itself from within a few years afterwards  (S.S. Pileus et Soc. M.M.) Saints Pileus (Peleus) and Pilus [Nilus], two bishops, Elias [Elijah], a presbyter, as well as Patermuthius [Pa-Termuthes] and 150 others, some Egyptian, some Palestinian Christians, were martyred about A.D. 310 during the Diocletian persecution (VI. 21-23). (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 924) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Pileus, Pilus, Elias, and Patermuthius may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of t...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of September WELCOME! SAINTS PELEUS, PA-TERMUTHES, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS  The holy confessors who were condemned to the mines in Palestine, during the course of the last general persecution, built little oratories, where they met to the divine service, which under their sufferings was their solid comfort.  Firmilian, governor of Palestine, informed the Emperor Galerius of the liberty they had taken, and the tyrant sent an order that they should be sent, some to the mines in Cyprus, others to those on Mount Libanus, and others to other places.  Firmilian being in the meantime beheaded himself for his crimes, the officer upon whom the command was devolved after his disgrace, removed the servants of God to the new places of their banishment, according to the tenour of the imperial rescript; but first caused four of their number to be burned alive.  These were Peleus and Nilus, two Egyptian priests...