ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 8th of November WELCOME! SAINT WILLEHAD, BISHOP OF BREMEN, CONFESSOR [Apostle of Saxony.] Saint Willehad was an Englishman, a native of the kingdom of Northumberland, and was educated from his infancy in learning and piety. The austerity of his life, his humility, the readiness of his obedience, and his constant attendance on prayer, engaged his bishop to promote him to the dignity of the priesthood. HE WAS EDUCATED FROM HIS INFANCY IN LEARNING AND PIETY The great spiritual conquests which many of his countrymen had made to Christ, with St Willibrord in Friesland and St Boniface in Germany, seemed a reproach to him, and he desired to carry the saving knowledge of the true God to some of those barbarous nations which remained still in the darkness of idolatry and in the shades of death. AT THE TIME, THOSE BARBAROUS NATIONS STILL REMAINED IN THE SHADES OF DEATH King Alchred favoured his resolution, and the bish...