ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 3rd of May WELCOME! SAINT PHILIP OF ZELL, HERMIT From 8th century England, where he was born at an unknown place, St Philip came to Rome as a pilgrim, and, according to legend, he became a priest in Rome. Afterwards, abandoning himself to the guidance of God, he came to what is now the Bavarian Rhine-Palatinate, and settled in a place which was henceforth called Zell. Philip's biography relates that he lead a contemplative hermit life. The animals of the forest came to him trustingly, for he shared his food with them. Birds especially flew spontaneously onto his hand when he called them - as if they had been trained. The reputation of the Servant of God gradually spread throughout that country, and reached the ears of Pepin the Short, who came to pay the holy man a visit, which he gratefully returned with pious intercession and salutary counsel. A monastery came into existence at the spot which included a church d...