ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 1st of August WELCOME! THE SEVEN MACCABEES From the 13th century " Golden Legend " by Bl. Jacopo de Voragine , Archbishop of Genoa, 1275. Originally in Latin, it was the most widely read book (after the Bible) during the late Middle Ages: There were seven Maccabees with their worshipful mother, and a priest named Eleazar which would eat no swine’s flesh because it was defended in their law. And after that it is contained in the book of the Maccabees , they suffered great torments, and such as never were heard before, and it is to understand that the church of the orient maketh the solemnities of the saints of that one and of that other Testament. And the church of the occident maketh no feast of them of the Old Testament, save of the Innocents, because that the souls of the saints of that time descended into hell, but she maketh feast of the Innocents because Jesus Christ was slain in every ...