All Saints’ Day — WHO AM I?

Happy feast of All Saints!

This one could tell you every detail of his beloved saintly friend and namesake. He wouldn’t even cut his saint story short to appease the time guidelines and numerous requests from the crowd.

I pray that he never losses that zeal and love for Christ.

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I received the degree of civil & canon laws. I then became a pirest in Rome and was given a high position by Pope Julius II.

I spent all my fortunes to build hospiatlas, care for the sick, and even start a bank to help protect the poor from loan sharks.

Many said that I looked like a seraph when standing before the altar, and like an Apostle when in the pulpit.

After some time, I went back to Rome, where I founded an Order (Theatines) — we sought to correct heretics, assist the sick & dying, and promote the welfare of men.

My order took a special vow of poverty—We left our whole care to God, and waited patiently for what Providence would send us.

I was also the first to introduce the Forty Hours’ Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Later, my vigilance, under God, helped preserve the city from heresy; Luther’s poisonous teachings were being spread under the name of “Evangelical Liberty.” I was called the “Hunter of Souls.”

I also took on constant penances. I scourged myself, daily and I maintained a continual fast through my temperance with food. I spent most of my nights in devout exercises, taking only a short rest on straw. I never spoke except to honor God or benefit man.

One Christmas Eve, when I was passing the night in the Church of Saint Mary Major, the Holy Child appeared to me, and the Blessed Virgin, who carried Him, laid Him. into the my arms, filling my soul with heavenly consolation.

I had many other visions during my life, and was often seen in a state of ecstacy during my prayers. I also possessed the gift of prophecy, and miraculously cured a many sick people.

Even in my last hours, I did not allow my body any comfort, I laid in my pentiential cloths upon ashes on the ground saying: “There is no road to Heaven but that of Innocence or Penance.”

I died in the year of our Lord 1547.

I am the patron of job seekers and unemployed people.

WHO AM I?

This is a repeat for him but how can you go wrong with an early martyr who is also your namesake.

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I am a bishopp who suffered martyrdom in 305, during the persecution of Diocletian.

My body and some of blood was brought to Naples.

My feast is September 19. Often a miracle of my blood occurs on my feast — it flows like that of a living man.

WHO AM I?

I don’t know if we should be worried or proud that he is drawn to some of the most fierce saints — the ones that most people could never imagine following.

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I witnessed a pious dead man raised from the dead on three occasions, explaining that he was condemned to hell by God.

I was so affected by this judgment of God, that I resolved, at that moment, to retire from the world and work most earnestly at the salvation of my soul.

My companions and I sold all we had, gave it to the poor, and left our homes. We went, dressed in the poor garb of pilgrims.

We told the bishop of our resolution. He brought us to the desert area barley fit for animals.

It was the perfect place for my purpose.

I built a small church there in honor of Saint John the Baptist, and several poor cells, all separated from each other.

This was the beginning of my Order.

My companions and I led a very austere life. The principal points that we observed were:

To live separated from all communication with men
To observe a continual silence, except when assembled at church to sing the praises of God
Always to wear hair-cloth
To abstain from meat and to fast daily
To occupy our time in prayer, singing the praises of God, reading devout books and manual labor

The Almighty released my soul in the year 1101, clothed in penitential garments and kissing my Crucifix

My order which I founded in 1084, (Carthusian Monks) remains one of the most edifying and rigorous Orders that has ever existed.

My feastday is October 6.

WHO AM I?