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Saint of the Day  (September 25)  ✠ St. Euphrosyne of Alexandria ✠  Virgin:  Born: ---- Alexandria, Egypt  Died: 5th Century AD  Venerated in: Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church  Feast: September 25  Saint Euphrosyne of Alexandria was a female saint who adopted male attire and lived at a local monastery as an ascetic. Her feast day is celebrated both in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches on 25 September.  St. Euphrosyne was, according to legend, a Christian virgin and sole daughter of a wealthy trader, the Holy Pafnutio from Alexandria. He and his wife had lived in a childless marriage for many years and began to grow old.  Pafnutios was a deeply faithful and devout Christian and he used to go in a monastery where the abbot was his spiritual guide. At this old monk’s intercession, Pafnutios’s wife finally became pregnant, and Euphrosyne was born. The mother died when her daughter was twelve years old, so she was ...

Saint of the Day  (September 25)  ✠ St. Ceolfrith ✠  Abbot and Confessor:  Born: 642 AD  Died 716 Monastery of Langres in Burgundy  Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church Orthodox Church  Feast: September 25  Saint Ceolfrith, or Geoffrey, the friend and spiritual son of Saint Benedict Biscop (January 12), was born about the year 642 and was probably a native of the kingdom of Northumbria.  He is first mentioned in 674 as aiding Benedict in the foundation of the abbey of Wearmouth, and about the year 678, he accompanied him to Rome. A little later - about the year 681 - Ceolfrith was an active, learned and zealous man, and worthy to be the successor of Benedict. He doubled the large library which had been formed by his predecessor and increased the number of monks to six hundred. He also enriched the monastery, by obtaining from King Aldfrith a grant of lands on the river "Fresca," which were afterwards exchanged for an estate nearer ...