ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 6th of July WELCOME! SAINT PALLADIUS, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR The name of Palladius shows this saint to have been a Roman, and most authors agree that he was deacon of the church of Rome. At least St Prosper in his chronicle informs us, that when Agricola, a noted Pelagian, had corrupted the churches of Britain with the insinuation of that pestilential heresy, Pope Celestine, at the instance of Palladius the deacon, in 429, sent thither St Germanus, bishop of Auxerre, in quality of his legate, who having ejected the heretics, brought back the Britons to the Catholic faith. POPE CELESTINE SENT PALLADIUS The concern of Palladius for these islands stopped not here; for it seems not to be doubted, but it was the same person of whom St Prosper again speaks, when he afterwards says, that in 431 Pope Celestine sent Palladius, the first bishop to the Scots then believing in Christ. From the lives of SS. Albeus, Declan, Ibar, and Ki...