RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Early Years St. Edmund, one of the greatest and most famous of the British saints, lived and suffered during the ninth century, one of the most tragic and difficult moments of British history, when the pagan Danes…
A noble kinswoman of St Edwin, king of Northumbria (commemorated October 12), Hilda was baptized at a young age through the preaching of St Paulinus, one of the first missionaries sent from Rome to the British Isles. At the age…
This holy and beloved Western Saint, the patron of France, was born in Pannonia (modern-day Hungary) in 316, to a pagan military family stationed there. Soon the family returned home to Italy, where Martin grew up. He began to go…
source: Wikipedia Saint Tysilio (+640 AD) was a Welsh bishop, prince and scholar, son of the reigning King of Powys, Brochwel Ysgithrog, maternal nephew of the great Abbot Dunod of Bangor Iscoed, and an ecclesiastic who took a prominent part in the affairs of Wales during the distressful period at the opening…
source: wikipedia Saint Cybi (in Welsh) or Saint Cuby (in Cornish) was a 6th-century Cornish bishop, saint and, briefly, king, who worked largely in North Wales: his biography is recorded in two slightly variant medieval ‘lives’. According to the ‘Life of Saint Cybi’, this saint was the son of Salomon, a ‘warrior prince’, generally…
St. Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia was born in Northumbria in England around 638. At the age of seven, he was sent to the monastery at Ripon for education under St Wilfrid (April 24) Bishop of York. Between…
source: St. Clether (also known as Clederus or Cleder) was a son of King Brychan Brycheiniog, ruler of what was later Brecknockshire, in south Wales. After his father’s death, Clether ruled an area of northern Dyfed, based around Nevern. He…
St. Hubertus of Liège or Maastricht', called the "Apostle of the Ardennes", was the first Bishop of Liège. His feast day on November 3.
Saint Winefride (in Welsh, Gwenfrewi) was a maiden of noble birth who lived in North Wales in the seventh century.
Saint Ia of Cornwall (also known as Eia, Hia or Hya) was a missionary and martyr of the 5th or 6th centuries in Cornwall. She is said to have been an Irish princess, the sister of Erc of Slane and a student of Saint Baricus. Ia went to the seashore to depart for…
