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St. Honoratus – January 16

Saint Honoratus (French: Saint Honorat or Saint Honoré; c. 350 – 6 January 429) was the founder of Lérins Abbey who later became an early Archbishop of Arles. Honoratus was born in the north of Gaul to a consular Roman family.[4] He received an outstanding education. He converted…

St. Sigeberht of East Anglia – January 16

Saint Sigeberht of East Anglia (also known as Saint Sigebert), (Old English: Sigebryht) was a saint and a king of East Anglia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the first English king to receive a Christian baptism and education before…

Saint Pega Hermitess of Peakirk – January 8

by Dr. Vladimir Moss. From A century of English sanctity Our holy Mother Pega was the sister of the great hermit St. Guthlac and lived as a hermitess in Peakirk, Northamptonshire, not far from Guthlac’s hermitage at Crowland. On Holy…