ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 4th of April WELCOME! SAINT PLATO, ABBOT Saint Plato was born about the year 734. A pestilence that raged at Constantinople depriving him of his parents when he was no more than thirteen years of age, the care of his education devolved upon an uncle, who was high treasurer. A REMARKABLE DEXTERITY IN WRITING SHORTHAND Plato, while yet young, despatched the business of that high office for his uncle with surprising readiness and assiduity. His remarkable dexterity in writing shorthand, may be reckoned among his inferior accomplishments, seeing by the daily progress he made in the more sublime parts of knowledge and religion, he far outstripped all his equals in age, and went beyond the greatest expectation of his masters. HIS HEART WAS ATTACHED TO HEAVENLY THINGS These eminent qualifications, joined to his elevated birth, extensive wealth, and unblemished probity, introduced him to the notice of the great, an...