SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 21st August SAINT QUADRATUS, BISHOP Today, we also commemorate Saint Quadratus. The Roman Martyrology states:  "Also Saint Quadratus, bishop." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Quadratus 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.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 26th of May SAINT QUADRATUS, MARTYR Today, we also commemorate Saint Quadratus. The Roman Martyrology states:  "In Africa, Saint Quadratus, martyr, on whose festival  Saint Augustine   preached a sermon." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Quadratus 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.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 7th of May SAINT QUADRATUS, MARTYR Today, we also commemorate Saint Quadratus. The Roman Martyrology states:  "In the same city [Nicomedia], Saint Quadratus, martyr, who was frequently tortured in the persecution of Decius, and at last decapitated." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Quadratus 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.

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 26th of May WELCOME! SAINT QUADRATUS, BISHOP OF ATHENS, CONFESSOR   Saint Quadratus was a disciple of the apostles, inherited their spirit and gifts, and by his miracles and labours exceedingly propagated the faith, as Eusebius testified; who calls him a divine man, and assures us that he was endued with an eminent gift of prophecy, and was one of those by whom the Holy Ghost continued to work the same miracles as by the apostles.  A GREAT ORNAMENT OF ATHENS St Publius, the immediate successor of St Dionysius the Areopagite, being crowned with martyrdom under Adrian in the year 125, St Quadratus was placed in that episcopal chair. By his qualifications in polite literature, he was esteemed by the heathens as a great ornament to their city, then the seat of the muses; and by his zeal and piety he assembled the faithful together, whom the terrors of the persecution had scattered, and rekindled the fire of their faith, which h...