ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 13th of May WELCOME! SAINT SERVATIUS, BISHOP OF TONGRES Saint Servatius, Bishop of Tongres, [Tongeren - Maastricht] hosted St Athanasius during the latter's banishment and vigorously defended the Faith against the Arians. St Gregory of Tours relates that he foretold that the Huns would invade Gaul, and implored the divine mercy to avert that scourge by watching, fasting, prayers, and many tears, and by a pilgrimage to Rome to the tomb of St Peter. WATCHING, FASTING, PRAYERS This penitential journey he undertook in the year 382. But he was informed by a revelation that God had determined to punish the sins of that nation, which calamity, like Ezechias, he was assured his eyes should never behold. A REVELATION Thereupon, weeping, he hastened back to Tongres, where he shortly after sickened and died, on May 13, 384, having been bishop about thirty-seven years. The city of Tongres was shortly after plundered, and ...