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...