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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th of December WELCOME! SAINT PAUL OF LATROS, ABBOT This holy 10th century hermit is commemorated on [December 20], 15, and 21. The son of a centurion named Antiochus, who had fallen in battle with the Saracens, he chose the monastery cell in his early youth. This was met with the approval of his mother Eudoxia and his older brother Basil ( Basilius ). His birthplace was Elea, not far from Pergamus (now Bergma) in Mysia.  Initially, Saint Paul, like his brother, seems to have lived in the Laura of Saint Elias. Afterwards, he moved to the mountains, into the area of ​​Latros, to the Corya monastery. After the death of its local abbot Peter, he moved into the desert. Without wanting to, Saint Paul became the head of a so-called Laura, i.e. a number of other hermits who, under his leadership, underwent spiritual exercises together.  His strict penitential life (although he carefully concealed it from people's eye...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 20th of December WELCOME!   SAINT PAUL OF LATRUS, OR LATRA, HERMIT The father of this saint, who was an officer in the imperial army, being slain on board the Grecian fleet, in an engagement with the Mahometans, his mother Eudocia retired from Pergamus, in Asia, which was the place of his nativity, into Bithynia, taking her two sons with her.  Basil, who was the eldest, rejecting the proposal of an advantageous match, took the monastic habit upon Mount Olympus in that country; but soon after, for the sake of greater solitude, retired to the laura founded by St Elias, and afterwards to Brachiana, near Mount Latrus.  When their mother was dead, he engaged his younger brother to embrace the same state of life. Though young, he had experienced the world sufficiently to understand the emptiness and dangers of its enjoyments.  THE EMPTINESS AND DANGERS OF THE WORLD'S ENJOYMENTS He saw that even if it bestows...