SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 13th of July WELCOME! SAINT SARAH, VIRGIN AND ABBESS Saint Sara [Sarah] (feast day: July 13) was a virgin and abbess in the Scete desert in Egypt. Distinguished by her chastity, wisdom and humility, she lived at the time of Emperor Theodosius the Elder, i.e. towards the end of the 4th century. Her daily prayer in her daily trials was: "Lord, give your servant the gift of strength!" She is pictured praying in the solitude of a hut on the Nile river, with the rosary in one hand, the cross in the other, sometimes with a beech and the scourge of penance. Artur * lists her on May 30.  (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 204) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Sarah may increase our devotion and ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 19th of August WELCOME! SAINT SARA, MATRIARCH  Abraham and Sara's Journey Through Canaan, silver work, 1567 Saint Sara [Sarah] (Hebrew for "princess"; another form, Sarai , the signification of which is doubtful, is found in passages occurring before Genesis 17:15). THE WIFE OF ABRAHAM Sara was the wife of Abraham and also his step-sister (Genesis 12:15; 20:12). We do not find any other account of her parentage.  When Abraham goes down to Egypt because of the famine, he induces Sara, who though sixty-five years of age is very beautiful, to say that she is his sister; whereupon she is taken to wife by the King of Egypt, who, however, restores her after a Divine admonition (Genesis 12). In a variant account (Genesis 20), she is represented as being taken in similar circumstances by Abimelech, King of Gerara, and restored likewise to Abraham through a Divine intervention.  ISAAC'S BIRTH After having been barren ...