SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 22nd of May WELCOME!   SAINT IVO OF KERMARTIN, CONFESSOR  Saint Yvo Helori, or son of Helor [also known as Yvo, Ives, Erwan, Iwan, Youenn, Yves Hélory ] descended from a noble and virtuous family near Treguier in Brittany, was born in 1253.  HIS STUDIES He studied grammar at home with unusual application and success, and at fourteen years of age was sent to Paris, where he learned the liberal arts and divinity: he applied himself to the civil and canon law at Orleans.  His mother was wont frequently to say to him that he ought so to live as became a saint, to which his answer always was, that he hoped to be one. This resolution took deep root in his soul, and the impression of this obligation was in his heart a continual spur to virtue, and a check against the least shadow of any dangerous course.  A HORROR OF EVIL The contagious example of many loose companions at school served only to inspire him with the g...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 25th of April WELCOME! SAINT IVES, BISHOP   [Saint Ivo, Yves, Ivia of Slepe, Huntingdonshire.] He was a Persian bishop, who preached the faith in England about the same time with St Augustine, in the seventh century; and having for some time prepared himself for his last passage, by solitude, watching, prayer, and fasting, at Slepe, now St Ives, in Huntingdonshire, he there died and was buried.  HIS RELICS His body was found by a ploughman, in a pontifical habit and entire, in 1001, on April 24. By the fame of miracles performed at his relics, many resorted to the place, and a Benedictine priory was there built, though the saint’s body was soon after translated to the great abbey of Ramsey.  MIRACLES WROUGHT AT HIS TOMB Whitman, the third abbot at Ramsey, wrote a book of the miracles wrought at his tomb, which was afterwards augmented by Goscelin, a monk of Canterbury, about the year 1096.  THE CHURCH IN ...

   ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 23rd December Prayer to the Angels and the Saints Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation. In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven. Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses. Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their l...