SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 28th of August SAINT VIVIAN, BISHOP OF SAINTES Today, we also commemorate Saint Vivian. The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Saintes, Saint Vivian, bishop and confessor." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Vivian 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.

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 21st of January WELCOME!   SAINT VIMIN, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR By the fervent practices of the most perfect monastic discipline in one of the famous abbeys in Fifeshire, Scotland, Saint Vimin [Vivian] qualified himself to become, by word and example, a guide and director to many chosen souls in the paths of evangelical perfection.  HE BECAME BISHOP This appeared in the fruits of his zealous preaching and labours, when he was raised to the abbatial, and soon after to the episcopal dignity; for at that time, very few bishoprics being erected in Scotland, it was customary for learned and holy abbots of great monasteries to be often consecrated bishops, and to be attended by their monks in performing their functions; as venerable Bede informs us, speaking of Saint Aidan.  THE ABBEY OF HOLYWOOD Saint Vimin, to shun the danger of vainglory, to which the reputation of many miracles which he had wrought exposed him, r...