SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 31st of May WELCOME! SAINT TELESPHORUS, MARTYR OF GERONA A companion of  Saint Gaulienus , Saint Telesphorus was killed for the Christian faith in Gerona  (Gerunda)  in Catalonia . (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Telesphorus 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. Amen. Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 30th of April WELCOME! SAINT TELESPHORUS, MARTYR OF ALEXANDRIA Saint Telesphorus was a martyr in Alexandria, a companion of  Saint   Dorotheus . (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  1, Augsburg, 1858, pp. 806-07) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Telesphorus confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. 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. Amen. Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk,  de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 5th of January WELCOME! SAINT TELESPHORUS, POPE AND MARTYR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Telesphorus was the seventh Roman bishop in succession from the Apostles, and, according to the testimony of St Irenaeus, suffered a glorious martyrdom.  Eusebius places the beginning of his pontificate in the twelfth of Hadrian’s reign (128 - 129), his death in the first year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (138 - 139).  THE CELEBRATION OF EASTER In the fragment of the letter of Irenaeus of Lyons to Pope Victor concerning the celebration of Easter, Telesphorus is mentioned as one of the Roman bishops who always celebrated Easter on Sunday, without, however, abandoning church fellowship with those communities that did not follow this custom.  None of the statements in the "Liber pontificalis" and other authorities of a later date as to liturgical and other decisions of this pope are genuine. In the Roman Martyrology his ...