ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 13th of January WELCOME! SAINT VERONICA OF MILAN, VIRGIN (A.D. 1497) All states furnish abundant means for attaining to sanctity, and Christian perfection, and it is only owing to our sloth and tepidity that we neglect to make use of them. NO WORLDLY ADVANTAGES This saint could boast of no worldly advantages either by birth or fortune. Her parents maintained their family by hard labour in a village near Milan, and were both very pious; her father never sold a horse, or any thing else he delt in, without being more careful to acquaint the purchaser with all that was secretly faulty in it, than to recommend its good qualities. His narrow circumstances prevented his giving his daughter any schooling, so that she never learned to read; but his own, and his devout wife’s example, and fervent though simple instructions, filled her tender heart from the cradle with lively sentiments of virtue. UNINTERRUPTE...