ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 31st of May WELCOME! SAINT PETRONILLA, VIRGIN Among the disciples of the apostles in the primitive age of saints, this holy virgin shone as a bright star in the church. She lived when Christians were more solicitous to live well than to write much: they knew how to die for Christ; but did not compile long books or disputations, in which vanity has often a greater share than charity. Hence no particular account of her actions hath been transmitted down to us. ST PETER'S DAUGHTER But how eminent her sanctity was we may judge from the lustre by which it was distinguished among the apostles, prophets, and martyrs. Her name is the feminine and diminutive of Peter, and she is said to have been a daughter of the apostle St Peter, which tradition is confirmed by certain writings quoted by the Manichees in the time of St Augustine, which affirm that St Peter had a daughter whom he cured of a palsy. APOSTLE PETER...