ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 24th of April WELCOME! SAINT WILLIAM FIRMATUS, PRIEST AND CONFESSOR Saint William Firmatus ( Guilielmus Firmatus ), Priest and Confessor - commemorated on April 24; alternatively May 28 or July 21 - was born in Tours to noble parents and received an upbringing befitting his station. As a boy, he displayed extraordinary intellectual gifts, a quick grasp of concepts, and an excellent memory. Furthermore, he possessed great purity and blamelessness of character, which he guarded with anxious conscientiousness. He was granted a canonry at the church of Saint Venantius, even though he was still very young, a layman, and had not yet decided upon his future vocation. Consequently, he first entered military service, but later turned his attention to the study of medicine. Soon, however, he noticed within himself an excessive attachment to worldly goods. On one occasion, he saw the devil, in the form of an ape, sitting upon his money ...