SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 29th of April WELCOME! SAINT ROBERT, ABBOT OF MOLESME  (Founder of the Cistercians. A.D. 1110.) Saint Robert was born in Champagne, about the year 1018. His parents, Theodoric and Ermegarde, were no less noble than virtuous, and brought him up in learning and piety.  PROGRESS IN PERFECTION At the age of fifteen, he became a Benedictine monk in the abbey of Montier-la-celle , where he made such progress in perfection, that, though he was one of the youngest in that house, he was chosen prior, and some time after made abbot of St Michael de Tonnerre. But not finding the monks of this place disposed to second his good intentions and labours to establish regular discipline among them, but rather of a refractory temper and obstinate behaviour, he left them on the following occasion.  THEY BUILT THEMSELVES LITTLE CELLS MADE OF BOUGHS OF TREES There dwelt at that time, in a neighbouring desert called Colan, certain a...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 27th of March WELCOME! SAINT RUPERT, BISHOP OF SALZBURG  (In Austria, Saint Rupert is celebrated on 24th September, the day of the translation of his relics.) St Rupert, or Robert, was, by birth, a Frenchman, and of royal blood; but still more illustrious for his learning, and the extraordinary virtues he practised from his youth. He exercised himself in austere fasting, watching, and other mortifications; was a great lover of chastity and temperance; and so charitable as always to impoverish himself to enrich the poor.  THE PEOPLE COULD NOT BEAR THE LUSTRE OF SUCH SANCTITY His reputation drew persons from remote provinces to receive his advice and instructions. So distinguished a merit raised him to the episcopal see of Worms.  But that people, being for the most part, idolaters, could not bear the lustre of such sanctity, which condemned their irregularities and superstitions. They beat him with rods, loaded...