ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 14th of December WELCOME! SAINT VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS, BISHOP Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a Christian poet of the sixth century, born between 530 and 540 in Upper Italy, between Ceneda and Treviso. HE RECEIVED HIS LITERARY EDUCATION AT RAVENNA He received his literary education at Ravenna. Here he first manifested his poetical ability by a poem celebrating the dedication of a church to St Andrew by the bishop, Vitalis. He appears to have left Ravenna in 565, crossing the Alps and a part of Southern Germany and reaching in the autumn the banks of the Moselle. HE SEEMS TO HAVE LEFT RAVENNA IN 565 The stages of his journey may be traced in his poems. They were: Mainz, where he celebrated the construction of the baptistery and church of St George (II, 11 and 12), and in which he compliments the bishop, Sidonius (IX, 9); Cologne, where he accepted the hospitality of Bishop Carentinus (III, 14); Tr...