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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 16th of May WELCOME! SAINT SIMON STOCK, CONFESSOR    Saint Simon Stock was descended of a good family in Kent. From his infancy he turned all his thoughts and affections to attain to the most perfect love of God, and studied to devote all his moments to this glorious pursuit.  HIS SURNAME "STOCK" In this earnest desire, in the twelfth year of his age, he retired into a wilderness, and chose for his dwelling a great hollow oak tree; whence the surname of Stock was given him.  HIS AUSTERITIES Whilst he here mortified his flesh with fasting and other severities he nourished his soul with spiritual dainties in continual prayer. His drink was only water; and he never touched any other food but herbs, roots, and wild apples.  Whilst he led this course of life, he was invited by a divine revelation to embrace the rule of certain religious men who were coming from Palestine into England.  THE CARMELITE FR...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 16th of May WELCOME! SAINT SIMON STOCK, CONFESSOR  ⬅️ More information about Saint Simon Stock St Simon Stock received the  Brown Scapular in a vision from Our Lady. He lived in the 13th century and was from Kent, England. After a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he joined the hermit order of the  Carmelite  friars.  HE RECEIVED THE BROWN SCAPULAR His role was important to the consolidation of the order, which at the middle of the 13th century was transformed from a hermit order to being one of mendicant friars, and Simon Stock was its prior general at London. He died at Bordeaux, France, in 1265, and his cult spread during the 14th century. PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Simon 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. Am...