ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 16th of October WELCOME! SAINT PARDULFUS, ABBOT Saint Pardulfus ( French: Pardoux ),was born near Gueret ( Varacte ) in Sardinia. According to popular legend, his parents were wealthy peasants and Christians. As a boy he had the misfortune of going blind. God gave him the inner light of the Spirit instead,so that he could show others the way to the heavenly fatherland. What he had he gave to the poor, keeping for himself only what was absolutely necessary. He healed many of the sick and possessed who were brought to him by the application of consecrated oil or by the mere laying on of hands. At that time Count Lanthar of Limoges had built a monastery in Gueret and endowed it with land so that the monks could be provided with food and clothing. Pardulfus, who had meanwhile become abbot there, although blind, directed the affairs of this monastery with zeal and prudence. As abbot, he redoubled the severity of his penit...