ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS Jan 05, St. Cera, 7th century, St. John Neumann, ST. EDWARD, KING OF ENGLAND,

ENGLISH SPEAKING SAINTS Jan 05 St. Cera, 7th century. An Irish abbess also called Ciar, Cior, Cyra, or Ceara. She was born in Tipperary and served as abbess of a monastery at Kilkeary and another one at Tehelly. St. John Neumann, b. 1811 d. 1860 A.D. This American saint was born in Bohemia in 181 ST. EDWARD, KING OF ENGLAND, Crowned King of England in 1043, beloved by the people, he was a mild and gentle sovereign of profound prayer: he promoted peace, abolished war taxes to help the poorest of the poor, and built a monastery out of which would grow the Abbey of Westminster Jan 5