St. Comgall’s Pre-school Playgroup Newsletter

September 2011 newsletter

St. Comgall’s Pre-school Playgroup publish a newsletter each month. Click the link to view the current issue.

St. Sabas: Saint of the Day for Saturday, December 05, 2020 05/12/2020

Sabas was born at Mutalaska, Cappadocia, near Caesarea. He was the son of an army officer there who when assigned to Alexandria, left him in the care of an uncle. Mistreated by his uncle's wife, Sabas ran away to another uncle, though he was only eight. When the two uncles became involved in a lawsuit […]

St. John of Damascus: Saint of the Day for Friday, December 04, 2020 04/12/2020

Saint John Damascene has the double honor of being the last but one of the fathers of the Eastern Church, and the greatest of her poets. It is surprising, however, how little that is authentic is known of his life. The account of him by John of Jerusalem, written some two hundred years after his […]

St. Francis Xavier: Saint of the Day for Thursday, December 03, 2020 03/12/2020

St. Francis Xavier was a Navarrese-Basque Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre on April 7, 1506. His father was a privy counselor and finance minister to King John III of Navarre. He was the youngest in his family and resided in a castle which still partially stands today and is in the […]