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Happy Feast Day

Pope St. Clement I of Rome

35-99

Feast Day: November 23

Patronage: stonecutters, marble-workers, mariners, sailors, tanners, sick children

Saint Clement was an early successor to St. Peter, installed as Pope in the year 88 and one of the 5 Apostolic Fathers, who provide a direct link between the Apostles and later generations of the church fathers. He’s a contemporary of St. Paul and is mentioned in Philippians 4:3. St. Clement's First Epistle to the Corinthians, condemned the unauthorized and unjustified division between the laity and clergy, urging charity to heal this riff. It’s said that he was miraculously saved from martyrdom when he was cast in the sea with an anchor bound to him.battle with the disease.

Pope St. Clement I of Rome 

35-99

Feast Day: November 23

Patronage: stonecutters, marble-workers, mariners, sailors, tanners, sick children

Saint Clement was an early successor to St. Peter, installed as Pope in the year 88 and one of the 5 Apostolic Fathers, who provide a direct link between the Apostles and later generations of the church fathers. He’s a contemporary of St. Paul and is mentioned in Philippians 4:3. St. Clement's  First Epistle to the Corinthians, condemned the unauthorized and unjustified division between the laity and clergy, urging charity to heal this riff. It’s said that he was miraculously saved from martyrdom when he was cast in the sea with an anchor bound to him.

Saint Columban (Columbanus)

c.543 - 615

Feast Day: November 23

Patronage: motorcyclists, Columban Missionaries, Derry, Ireland

Saint Columban was Ireland's great missionary to Europe. He was classicly taught, lived as a hermit monk, and after 12 years in seclusion and prayer, traveled to Europe with 12 companions to preach the faith.  He established many monasteries, the greatest being Bobbio Abbey which adhered to a disciplined, austere religious life. Columban wrote treatises on penance, poetry, the monastic rule and against Arianism.  He died at Bobbio Abbey.

Portrait of Pope Clement VII