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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 16th of May WELCOME! SAINT POSSIDIUS, BISHOP OF CALAMA Today, we also commemorate Saint Possidius. The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Mirandola, in Emilia, Saint Possidius , bishop of Calama, disciple of Saint Augustine, and the writer of his glorious life." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Possidius may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen. ➡️ More information about Saint Possidius

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 17th of May WELCOME! SAINT POSSIDIUS, BISHOP OF CALAMA, CONFESSOR    Saint Possidius was a native of the proconsular Africa, and had his education under the great St Augustine. In 397 he was chosen bishop of Calama in Numidia, which diocese he found distracted by the factions both of heathens and Donatists.  HE WAS ASSAULTED In 404 a party of the latter dragged him out of his house, beat him, and threatened his life. All the revenge he took of them was to obtain their pardon from the emperor.  Four years after this, the idolaters in a riotous festival on the 1st of June, had the insolence to dance round the church, throw stones into it, and set it on fire, wounding several of the clergy, and killing one upon the spot.  HE PUT A WORD IN FOR THE RIOTERS Nectarius, a principal person among the heathens, who had no share in this tumult, wrote to St Augustine to beg him to intercede with the emperor for the...