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DECEMBER:Month of Devotion to The DIVINE INFANCYand The IMMACULATE CONCEPTION of the BLESSED VIRGIN MARY First Friday of the Month:“I promise you, in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all powerful love, will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Friday, for Nine Consecutive Months, the grace of final repentance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving…

Saint of the Day – 1 December – Blessed John Beche OSB (Died 1539) Abbot Martyr,

Saint of the Day – 1 December – Blessed John Beche OSB (Died 1539) Benedictine Abbot Martyr, The Last Abbot of St John in Colchester, friend of St John Fisher and St Thomas More, both Martyrs, Born as Thomas Marshall in Colchester, England where he also died on 1 December 1539 by being hanged, drawn and quartered during the persecution of the Church by Henry VIII. Thomas Marshall, commonly known…