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  WELCOME! SAINT PATERNUS, BISHOP Today, we also commemorate Saint Paternus. The Roman Martyrology states:  "The same day, Saint Paternus, bishop of Avranches." PRAYER: Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of Saint Paternus, not to think high-mindedly, but to grow in humility pleasing to you; that, despising what is base, she may with unbounded love diligently do whatever is right. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. ➡️ More information about Saint Paternus

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 15th of April WELCOME! SAINT PATERNUS, BISHOP OF AVRANCHES, CONFESSOR  Called by the French Patier, Pair, and Foix. [St Padarn.]  Saint Paternus was born at Poitiers, about the year 482. His father, Patranus, with the consent of his wife, went into Ireland, where he ended his days in holy solitude.  MONASTIC LIFE Paternus, fired by his example, embraced young a monastic life in the abbey of Ansion, called, in succeeding ages, Marnes, and at present, from the name of a holy abbot of that house, St Jovin des Marnes, in the diocese of Poitiers.  HE MOVED TO WALES After some time, burning with a desire of attaining to the perfection of Christian virtue, he passed over to Wales, and in Cardiganshire founded a monastery called Llan-patern-vaur, or the church of the great Paternus.  He made a visit to his father in Ireland: but being called back to his monastery of Ansion, he soon after retired with St Scub...