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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of September WELCOME! SAINT SIGON, ABBOT Saint Sigon, commemorated on September 19, was an abbot of Sigestre [Ségriès] also called Seganus and Sequanus . The Bishop of Langres ordained him a priest before he had reached the prescribed age. Advanced in learning and virtue, he built himself a monastery in the forest of Sigestre. The good discipline that flourished there soon earned him great renown and attracted many disciples. His holiness and the accompanying gift of miracles moved the pious King Guntram to bestow upon him considerable estates. Saint. Sigon died during the lifetime of Guntram, King of Burgundy, on September 19, 580. (Burg. II. 233) (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  5, Augsburg, 1882, pp. 291-92) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Sigo...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of September WELCOME! SAINT SEQUANUS, ABBOT   Saint Sequanus (Seine) [Sigo, Sigon ] was born in the little town of Maymont in the extremity of Burgundy. His parents gave him an excellent education, and permitted him to embrace an ecclesiastical state, to which he was inclined from his infancy.  HE BECAME A PRIEST Having received the clerical tonsure from the hands of his pastor, the sanctity of his life soon recommended him to the Bishop of Langres, who promoted him to the priesthood.  HE QUITTED THE COMMERCE OF THE WORLD The saint having suffered some persecution from persons who had envied his merit, he took occasion from thence to execute a resolution he had long before formed, of quitting the commerce of the world; and put himself under the direction of Abbot John, who governed the monastery of Reome, in Auxois, since called Moutier St Jean. THE PRACTICE OF ALL RELIGIOUS VIRTUES Here he perfected ...