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Mar. 4th, 2010 01:26 amAppianus of Comacchio (also Apianus; d. 8th century) According to his brief, undated Vita, he was a monk at Pavia's San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, where he was exemplary in his behavior towards monks, clerics, and lay people and where he secretly practiced mortification of the flesh. Made steward, he was an effective and prudent manager of his monastery's goods. His abbot sent him to today's Comacchio to acquire salt for his monastery. There he built himself a cell and spent the remainder of his life as a simple hermit, exercising his many virtues (and, as he seems not to have been replaced, presumably continuing to serve as his monastery's agent for the purchase of salt).
When Appianus died the locals buried him. Miracles occurred at his grave, a cult sprang up, and his remains were translated to a church erected in his honor. Much later, people from Pavia who had come to buy salt attempted to steal his relics but their vessel miraculously halted near a church of St. Maur; since it would go no farther, the relics were removed and interred in that church.
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Casimir of Poland (d. 1484) known as 'The Peace-Maker', the very pious Casimir (Kazimierz) was the third child of King Casimir IV of Poland and of his queen, Elizabeth of Austria. In 1471 at the age of 14 he was sent with an army against his fellow claimant for the throne of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus but the expedition was a fiasco (his own troops deserted because they hadn't been paid), and his father banished him. From that time on, Casimir refused to fight any Christian enemies (preferring to fight Turks), and finally refused to take up arms at all, turning to a predominantly spiritual life while holding high official positions. He is said to have declined marriage in 1481 to a daughter of the emperor Frederick III because he wished to remain celibate. After a stint as regent in Poland proper while his father was in the Lithuanian part of the realm, Casimir served as governor of Vilnius in 1483. He was known for his justice. He was at the Lithuanian court at Grodno in today's Belarus when in 1484 he became gravely ill with tuberculosis; accounts differ as to whether he died there or, very shortly afterward, at Vilnius. After a spate of miracles at his grave King Sigismund petitioned for his canonization, which was granted 1602. In 1636 Urban VIII proclaimed him Lithuania's patron saint. In the 16th and 17th centuries he was noted for his supernatural aid to Lithuania in its wars with Russia.
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Humbert III of Savoy / Umberto III di Savoia (d. 1188) In 1148 Humbert became count of Savoy at the age of 13. He abdicated and went to a Cistercian monastery, but returned to power to get married for reasons of state; after an heir was born he headed back to the cloister (the Cistercians say that he became a monk, but apparently this is debated).
When Appianus died the locals buried him. Miracles occurred at his grave, a cult sprang up, and his remains were translated to a church erected in his honor. Much later, people from Pavia who had come to buy salt attempted to steal his relics but their vessel miraculously halted near a church of St. Maur; since it would go no farther, the relics were removed and interred in that church.
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Casimir of Poland (d. 1484) known as 'The Peace-Maker', the very pious Casimir (Kazimierz) was the third child of King Casimir IV of Poland and of his queen, Elizabeth of Austria. In 1471 at the age of 14 he was sent with an army against his fellow claimant for the throne of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus but the expedition was a fiasco (his own troops deserted because they hadn't been paid), and his father banished him. From that time on, Casimir refused to fight any Christian enemies (preferring to fight Turks), and finally refused to take up arms at all, turning to a predominantly spiritual life while holding high official positions. He is said to have declined marriage in 1481 to a daughter of the emperor Frederick III because he wished to remain celibate. After a stint as regent in Poland proper while his father was in the Lithuanian part of the realm, Casimir served as governor of Vilnius in 1483. He was known for his justice. He was at the Lithuanian court at Grodno in today's Belarus when in 1484 he became gravely ill with tuberculosis; accounts differ as to whether he died there or, very shortly afterward, at Vilnius. After a spate of miracles at his grave King Sigismund petitioned for his canonization, which was granted 1602. In 1636 Urban VIII proclaimed him Lithuania's patron saint. In the 16th and 17th centuries he was noted for his supernatural aid to Lithuania in its wars with Russia.
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Humbert III of Savoy / Umberto III di Savoia (d. 1188) In 1148 Humbert became count of Savoy at the age of 13. He abdicated and went to a Cistercian monastery, but returned to power to get married for reasons of state; after an heir was born he headed back to the cloister (the Cistercians say that he became a monk, but apparently this is debated).
