ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 3rd of August WELCOME! THE INVENTION OF ST STEPHEN, OR THE DISCOVERY OF HIS RELICS [The feast of Saint Stephen is celebrated on December 26. Here follows the description for the ancient festival "The Invention of St Stephen", Protomartyr.] This second festival, in honour of the holy protomartyr Saint Stephen, was instituted by the church on the occasion of the discovery of his precious remains. THE VERY REMEMBRANCE OF THE PLACE OF HIS BURIAL HAD BEEN BLOTTED OUT OF THE MINDS OF MEN His body lay long concealed, whilst the glory of his sanctity shone both in heaven and on earth. The very remembrance of the place of his burial had been blotted out of the minds of men, and his relics lay covered under the ruins of an old tomb, in a place twenty miles from Jerusalem, called Caphargamala, that is, borough of Gamaliel, where stood a church which was served by a venerable priest named Lucian. In the year 415, in t...