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Feb. 19th, 2010
Today's saints
Feb. 19th, 2010 11:20 amHere's a few stories:
Conrad of Piacenza (d. 1351) When the young nobleman Conrad was out hunting one day, he had a fire lit to help drive the game. The blaze got out of control and destroyed several villages. He didn't admit his fault until a poor man was sentenced to death for the arson, whereupon Conrad confessed and used most of his wealth (and his wife's dowry) to pay reparations. The two then devoted themselves to religious life, she as a Poor Clare and he as a hermit. From that time he led a life of extraordinary piety, and soon his fame began to bring him visits from his former fellow-citizens. In spite of all attempts to hide himself, the fame of his sanctity spread far and wide, and when a famine occurred numerous people sought his help. Through his prayers relief came at once to the stricken inhabitants, and from that time his cell was besieged by sufferers of all kinds. So he escaped to Sicily, where he lived as a hermit for the remaining 30 years of his life - still pestered by people wanting his prayers and especially his miraculous cures. There were many miracles at his tomb, and his cult was approved by Paul III. He was particularly invoked for 'ruptures' on account of the large number of people who owed their quick recoveries from hernias to his intercession.
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Odran the Martyr (d. c. 452) Legend tells that the Irish Odran became Patrick's chariot-driver, and was killed in an ambush meant for Pat (after he had anticipated the danger and gallantly changed places with his passenger). He was the only Irishman remembered as a martyr in early Ireland.
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Quodvultdeus of Carthage (d. c450) was a disciple of St. Augustine who at some point in the 430s became bishop of Carthage. When, after the Vandal seizure of that city in 439, he had declined to renounce Catholicism, he and many of his clergy were ejected and sent abroad in what Victor of Vita says were unseaworthy vessels. Arriving safely at Naples, Quodvultdeus settled in as an exile in Campania, writing sermons and other works and warning all of the barbarian peril. If he is the author, as people now tend think, of the Liber promissionum et praedictorum Dei, he was living in Naples during the papacy of Leo I (440-51). His date of death and place of burial are unknown.
I just like his name. :)
Conrad of Piacenza (d. 1351) When the young nobleman Conrad was out hunting one day, he had a fire lit to help drive the game. The blaze got out of control and destroyed several villages. He didn't admit his fault until a poor man was sentenced to death for the arson, whereupon Conrad confessed and used most of his wealth (and his wife's dowry) to pay reparations. The two then devoted themselves to religious life, she as a Poor Clare and he as a hermit. From that time he led a life of extraordinary piety, and soon his fame began to bring him visits from his former fellow-citizens. In spite of all attempts to hide himself, the fame of his sanctity spread far and wide, and when a famine occurred numerous people sought his help. Through his prayers relief came at once to the stricken inhabitants, and from that time his cell was besieged by sufferers of all kinds. So he escaped to Sicily, where he lived as a hermit for the remaining 30 years of his life - still pestered by people wanting his prayers and especially his miraculous cures. There were many miracles at his tomb, and his cult was approved by Paul III. He was particularly invoked for 'ruptures' on account of the large number of people who owed their quick recoveries from hernias to his intercession.
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Odran the Martyr (d. c. 452) Legend tells that the Irish Odran became Patrick's chariot-driver, and was killed in an ambush meant for Pat (after he had anticipated the danger and gallantly changed places with his passenger). He was the only Irishman remembered as a martyr in early Ireland.
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Quodvultdeus of Carthage (d. c450) was a disciple of St. Augustine who at some point in the 430s became bishop of Carthage. When, after the Vandal seizure of that city in 439, he had declined to renounce Catholicism, he and many of his clergy were ejected and sent abroad in what Victor of Vita says were unseaworthy vessels. Arriving safely at Naples, Quodvultdeus settled in as an exile in Campania, writing sermons and other works and warning all of the barbarian peril. If he is the author, as people now tend think, of the Liber promissionum et praedictorum Dei, he was living in Naples during the papacy of Leo I (440-51). His date of death and place of burial are unknown.
I just like his name. :)