Saint of the Day – 7 December – Saint Martin of Saujon (Died c400) Priest, Founder and the 1st Abbot of Saujon Monastery in Saintonge, France. Born in Saintes and died at his Monastery in Saintonge, France of natural causes.
The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Saintes, in France, St Martin, Abbot, at whose Tomb, God worked frequent miracles.”
Originally from Saintes, he was a disciple of St Martin of Tours at the Abbey of Marmoutier. After the death of his spiritual father, he returned to his native country to found a Monastery himself in Saujon.
An Internet user writes to us: “living 25 km from Candes, a legend of St Martin still exists: when he died, the inhabitants of Tours came to collect his body and returned on a boat on the Loire. All along the route, the trees and all the vegetatio,n began to flower (remember this is in December in the Northern Hemisphere!) hence, the expression came to be – “the summer of Saint Martin.”
It seems from the above that St Martin was buried in Saintes.
Novena in Honour of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary: – LINK to the 9th Day – THE NINTH DAY – 7 December
Vigil of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – A Day of FASTING and ABSTINENCE. On this Vigil day, Catholics stand in the remains of the night as the dawn makes its appearance. This resplendent dawn is that Singular Conception, the Immaculate Conception, who ushers in the Light of Christ. A day of Fast and Abstinence following the Rubrics of Pope Pius X for the Universal Calendar of the Church.
“It is through the most Blessed Virgin Mary, that Jesus Christ came into the world and, it is also through her, that He will reign in the world.” – St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716)
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