ST. SERAPHIM OF MONTEGRANARO

Confessor of the Third Order

October 12

St. Seraphim, who from early childhood looked after his father's flocks, had acquired a love of solitude and prayer.  After his father's death he endured with patience the ill-treatment which his older brother continually meted out to him until the age of sixteen, when he entered the Capuchins.  There he made great progress in all the virtues, regularity, penance, poverty, chastity, humility, obedience, love of the poor, scrupulousness of conscience and devotion to the Passion.  He was loved by all because of his great good ness and cheerfulness.  He died in 1604.  He was canonized by Clement XIII