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November “The Month of the Holy Souls in Purgatory” All Saints Day – (a Holy Day of Obligation) Instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown. It owes its origin in the Western Church to the dedication of the Roman Pantheon in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the Martyrs by Pope Saint Boniface IV in 609, the anniversary of which was celebrated at Rome on 13 May. Pope Saint…

Saint of the Day – 1 November – Saint Austremonius (3rd-4th Century) Bishop of Clermon, France, and Apostle of Auvergne, Missionary Born in the 3rd Century and died in the early 4th Century of natural causes. Patronage – the Archdiocese of Clermont. Also known as – Austromoine, Stramonius, Stremonius. The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Clermont in Auvergne, France, Saint Austremonius, the…