ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 28th of December WELCOME! SAINT THEODORUS, ABBOT OF TABENNA, CONFESSOR This saint was born in Upper Thebais, about the year 314, of illustrious and wealthy parents, and from his expectations in the world, or from the dangers and distractions of its riches and enjoyments, he drew the strongest motives for despising it. When he was between eleven and twelve years of age, being penetrated more than ordinary with the great truths of the gospel, on the feast of the Epiphany he gave himself to God with uncommon fervour, protesting that he had never preferred any thing in his heart to the divine love and service, and begging the grace always to be faithful in this resolution. HE HAD NEVER PREFERRED ANYTHING TO THE DIVINE LOVE Not to deceive himself in so delicate a point, he from that moment made it his whole study to belong in his heart and in all his actions wholly to God, fasted sometimes whole days, and spent muc...