ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 25th of June WELCOME! SAINT PROSPER OF AQUITAINE, CONFESSOR Saint Prosper is surnamed of Aquitaine, to distinguish him from a bishop of Orleans , and others of the same name. His birth is usually placed in the year 403. His works show that in his youth he had happily applied himself to the studies of grammar, and all the branches both of polite and sacred learning. On account of the purity and sanctity of his manners, he is called by those of his age, a holy and venerable man. A HOLY AND VENERABLE MAN Having left Aquitaine, his native country, he was settled in Provence, and probably at Marseilles, when Saint Augustine 's book on Correction and Grace was brought thither. Certain priests and others of that country had been offended at that father’s writings against the Pelagians, pretending that the necessity of divine grace, which he established with the Catholic church, destroyed free-will. They grante...