ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 7th of October ST PALLADIUS OF SAINTES, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR Saint Palladius was bishop and confessor of Saintes (Mediolanum Santonum) in France. He came from a noble family and was raised to the Chair of Saintes around the year 573 following the death of Bishop Didymus. In the year 573 (576) he attended the Council of Paris, which King Guntram had called together in order to settle - through the bishops - a dispute that had arisen between the kings Sigebertus and Childerich. He was also present at the Synod of Macon in 585. With great zeal did the bishops endeavour to settle the disputes by means of a document in accordance with the canonical statutes; but after the end of the synod, cruel wars broke out between the two rulers, which brought much misery and calamity to the church. From now on St Palladius spent the remaining days of his life exclusively in the exercise of his episcopal offic...