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Monday, September 30, 2019

Happy Feast! - for the Saints of September


Celebrating some of the saints from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands:

Africa:

10th – Holy Martyrs of Numidia; many bishops and others confined to hard labor in mines, etc., but withstood the persecution heroically

11th – St Paphnutius, a bishop who suffered at the hands of the Arians

11th – St Theodora, a great picture of true repentance and humility

Belgium:

17th – St Lambert of Maastrict, a great light in the West

Czechia:

28th – St Wenceslas, a holy and virtuous prince, martyred by his own family (this is the ‘Good King Wenceslas’ that is sung about at Christmas time)
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England:

6th – St Bega, a holy anchoress in Cumbria

16th – St Edith of Wilton, a holy nun greatly loved by all England

19th – St Theodore, one of the greatest bishops of English history

25th – St Ceolfrith, a great leader of the famous monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow

30th – St Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury; the Faith made great progress in England under his guidance

England/France:

6th – Sts Felix and Augebert, ransomed slaves, martyred on their way to be missionaries in England

England/Germany:

28th – St Lioba, an important English abbess and missionary in Germany

France:

1st – St Giles, a hermit whose influence has been felt from France to Poland

3rd – St Remaclus, a luminary of the West

5th – St Bertin, a great abbot and enlightener of France

7th – St Cloud, a prince who renounced worldly honors and became a spiritual father to his people

9th – St Omer, a great enlightener of northern France

11th – St Patiens, a highly-praised archbishop of Lyons

15th – St Aicard, a nobleman who renounced his title and became an abbot and spiritual father to many

21st – St Maura, a high-born youth who dedicated her whole life to God and lived it beautifully

23rd – St Paternus, a monk, abbot, and bishop who labored hard to enlighten northwestern France

Ireland:

9th – St Ciaran of Clonmacnoise, one of the 12 Apostles of Ireland

12th – St Ailbhe/Albeus (a variant of his name is Elvis), one of the early evangelists in Ireland

25th – St Finbarr of Cork, a luminary of southern Ireland

26th – St Colman Elo, a spiritual father to many in his land of Heath

Ireland/France:

7th – St Grimonia, of Irish nobility, she went to France and was martyred; highly venerated and a miracle-worker

Italy:

29th – Dedication of the Church of St Michael the Archangel on Mt Gargano

Old Rome:

17th – Sts Sophia, Faith, Hope, and Love; a mother and her three daughters, all heroic martyrs

20th – Sts Eustathios, Theopistia, Agapius, and Theopistus; a family of holy martyrs; St Eustathios, a military commander, was converted in a miraculous manner, beholding a cross between the antlers of a stag he was hunting

28th – St Eustochium, a holy virgin who followed in the footsteps of her renowned mother St Paula

Old Rome/Palestine:

30th – Blessed Jerome, the prolific Western writer and commentator on the Holy Scriptures

Palestine:

29th – St Kyriakos, a monk who adorned the desert with his holy life, teachings, and miracles

Scotland:

15th – St Mirin, an Irish abbot of a Scottish monastery near Strathclyde; sought out by many pilgrims

23rd – St Adomnan, a renowned abbot of Iona Monastery; he wrote a famous biography of St Columba, the founder of Iona (‘Life of St Columba’).

Wales:

11th – St Deiniol of Bangor, a great monastic father and enlightener of Wales

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

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