ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 9th of December WELCOME! SAINT PETER FOURIER, PRIEST Known as Le Bon Pere de Mattaincourt, born at Mirecourt, Lorraine, November 30, 1565 died at Gray, Haute-Saone, December 9, 1640. At fifteen he was sent to the University of Pont-a-Mousson. His piety and learning led many noble families to ask him to educate their sons. He became a Canon Regular in the Abbey of Chaumousey and was ordained in 1589. By order of his abbot he returned to the university and became proficient in patristic theology; he knew the "Summa" of St Thomas by heart. BY HIS PRAYERS, INSTRUCTIONS, AND GOOD EXAMPLE, RELIGION WAS SOON RESTORED In 1597 he was made parish priest of Mattaincourt, a corrupt district threatened with the new heresy. By his prayers, instructions, and good example, religion was soon restored. Fourier did not neglect the temporal interests of his parishioners; to help those who through ill-fortune had...