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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 12th of March SAINT PAUL, BISHOP OF LANGRES Saint Paul (Paulus) was the first bishop of Langres in Brittany. He came from a distinguished family in Cornwall, Great Britain. Along with his cousin Saint Samson and Saint Gildas he spent his youth under the guidance of Saint Iltut.  Later, Paul obtained Saint Iltut's consent to retire to a desert, where he followed the way of life of the first hermits. At one point, he crossed over to Armorica or Lesser Britain as a priest. There he settled on the small island of Medonia, inhabited by the Osismians, a still idolatrous people, and lived a truly angelic life, hidden from human eyes. Bread and water were his usual sustenance; only on the great feast days he allowed himself fish. Moved by the deplorable blindness of the Osismians, he preached the faith to them. His evangelical work had the happiest of successes. Withur, who was earl or governor of the region, wrote of this to ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 12th of March WELCOME! SAINT PAUL OF LEON, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR  Saint Paul of Leon was a noble Briton, a native of Cornwall, cousin of St Samson, and his fellow-disciple under St Iltutus [St Illtyd]. We need no other proof of his wonderful fervour and progress in virtue, and all the exercises of a monastic life, than the testimony of St Iltutus, by whose advice St Paul left the monastery to embrace a more perfect eremitical life in a retired place in the same country.  HE CONTINUED THE SAME AUSTERE EREMITICAL LIFE Some time after, our saint sailing from Cornwall, passed into Armorica, and continued the same austere eremitical life in a small island on the coast of the Osismians, a barbarous idolatrous people in Armorica, or Little Britain.  Prayer and contemplation were his whole employment, and bread and water his only food, except on great festivals, on which he took with his bread a few little fish.  ...