ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 24th of May WELCOME! SAINT VINCENT OF LERINS, CONFESSOR (A.D. 450.) Saint Vincent was of Gaulish extraction, had a polite education, was afterwards for some time an officer in the army, and lived with dignity in the world. He informs us in his prologue, that having been some time tossed about in the storms of a bustling military life, he began seriously to consider the dangers with which he was surrounded, and the vanity and folly of his pursuits. A REFUGE FROM THE FOLLY OF THE WORLD He desired to take shelter in the harbour of religion, which he calls the safest refuge from the world. (1) His view in this resolution was that he might strenuously labour to divest his soul of its ruffling passions, of pride and vanity, and to offer to God the acceptable sacrifice of an humble and Christian spirit; and that being further removed from worldly temptations, he might endeavour more easily to avoid not only the wrecks of the pre...