ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! SAINT WALSTAN, CONFESSOR (A.D. 1016.) Saint Walstan was formerly much honoured at Cossey and Bawburgh, commonly called Baber, two villages four miles from Norwich. He was born at Baber, and of a rich and honourable family. The name of his father was Benedict, that of his mother Blida. HE DEVOTED HIMSELF TO GOD By their example and good instructions he, from his infancy, conceived an ardent desire to devote himself to God with the greatest perfection possible. In this view, at twelve years of age he renounced his patrimony, left his father’s house, and entered a poor servant at Taverham, a village adjoining to Cossey. HIS SPIRIT OF PENANCE He was so charitable that he gave his own victuals to the poor, and sometimes even his shoes, going himself barefoot. FARM LABOUR IN THE FIELDS He applied himself to the meanest and most painful country labour in a perfect spirit of penance a...