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Interesting saints
Feb. 17th, 2010 12:11 amOr, "How I spend my evenings reading"
February 15 -
* Berach (6th cent.) Berach was a disciple of St. Kevin. He became abbot of Cill Beraigh (Kilberry). There are some interesting legends connected to him, as when he made a willow tree bear apples, which then cured a sick child.
* Severus of Interocrium (or of Antrodoco; 4th or 5th century). According to Gregory the Great, Severus was a parish priest in the Abruzzi who was pruning his vines when a dying sinner's messengers arrived and asked him to hasten to confess the man before he died. Preferring instead to finish the job at hand (which was near completion), Severus sent the messengers on ahead, saying that he would follow shortly. He did, but when he caught up with the messengers they informed him that the man was now already dead. The anguished saint rushed to the man's bedside, sobbing and blaming himself for allowing him to die unconfessed. Whereupon the man returned to life and informed Severus that he had been on his way to Hell when the Lord ordered his return because Severus was crying. Severus then helped him make his confession and perform penance for seven days, after which the man then died in peace. Gregory's story of Severus is recast in the legend of Severus of Orvieto but it is not clear whether Severus himself was venerated as a saint in the Middle Ages.
February 17
* Andrea d'Anagni/Andrew Conti of Anagni (1302)- related to popes Alexander IV (nephew) and Boniface VIII, he left his noble lifestyle behind and became a Franciscan lay brother and after that a hermit in the Apennines, refusing to be made a cardinal. He was so troubled by demons that his is invoked against them. One day, when he was ill and unable to take his ordinary food, a friend brought him some roasted birds. The saint, touched with pity at the sight of the innocent creatures, would not eat, but, making the sign of the cross over them, commanded them to resume their feathers and fly away. He was instantly obeyed, and the little birds, restored to life, took flight with chirps of joy.'
February 15 -
* Berach (6th cent.) Berach was a disciple of St. Kevin. He became abbot of Cill Beraigh (Kilberry). There are some interesting legends connected to him, as when he made a willow tree bear apples, which then cured a sick child.
* Severus of Interocrium (or of Antrodoco; 4th or 5th century). According to Gregory the Great, Severus was a parish priest in the Abruzzi who was pruning his vines when a dying sinner's messengers arrived and asked him to hasten to confess the man before he died. Preferring instead to finish the job at hand (which was near completion), Severus sent the messengers on ahead, saying that he would follow shortly. He did, but when he caught up with the messengers they informed him that the man was now already dead. The anguished saint rushed to the man's bedside, sobbing and blaming himself for allowing him to die unconfessed. Whereupon the man returned to life and informed Severus that he had been on his way to Hell when the Lord ordered his return because Severus was crying. Severus then helped him make his confession and perform penance for seven days, after which the man then died in peace. Gregory's story of Severus is recast in the legend of Severus of Orvieto but it is not clear whether Severus himself was venerated as a saint in the Middle Ages.
February 17
* Andrea d'Anagni/Andrew Conti of Anagni (1302)- related to popes Alexander IV (nephew) and Boniface VIII, he left his noble lifestyle behind and became a Franciscan lay brother and after that a hermit in the Apennines, refusing to be made a cardinal. He was so troubled by demons that his is invoked against them. One day, when he was ill and unable to take his ordinary food, a friend brought him some roasted birds. The saint, touched with pity at the sight of the innocent creatures, would not eat, but, making the sign of the cross over them, commanded them to resume their feathers and fly away. He was instantly obeyed, and the little birds, restored to life, took flight with chirps of joy.'
