For November 12
Astrik/Anastasius of Pannonhalma/of Esztergom (d. c1030-40) Radla, probably a Croat or a Czech, became a monk in Rome, where he took the name Anastasius. When Adalbert of Prague was forced to return to his diocese in 993, Astrik accompanied him. He became first abbot of Brevnov, but was forced to flee to Hungary. There he became an active missionary among the Magyars and first abbot of Pannonhalma (the first monastery in Hungary, founded by Stephen). Astrik then crowned his career as first archbishop of the Hungarian Church, with his see probably at Kalocsa. He is regarded as the "apostle of Hungary."
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Cadwaladr (d. 664) was a king of Gwynedd, who won such a great reputation for piety and love of peace that he won the nickname "battle-shunner."
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Emilian/Millan Cucullatus /de Cogolla / Aemilian of the Cowl ((Cucullatus/Cogolla means "with the hood") (d. 574) We know about Emilian (in Spanish, Millán de la Cogolla; in the Latin of the Bollandists, Aemilianus Cucullatus conf. in Tarracone) from his brief Vita by St. Braulio of Zaragoza, written some sixty year's after Emilian's death but drawing on the reminiscences of several who had known him. According to this account, at the age of twenty the shepherd Emilian (one of his attributes is a shepherd's pipe) was called by God to a life of contemplation and penitence. After a period of attachment to the hermit St. Felix, he lived in various places first as a solitary and then as an ascetic priest in his native town of Berceo. There his charity to the poor caused other clerics to slander him to the local bishop, who in turn removed Emilian from office.
Emilian then retired to the countryside in the district of today's La Rioja now known from a Spanish form of his appellation Cucullatus as la Cogolla, where he spent the remainder of his life as a hermit, dying at about age 100. Disciples whom he had attracted buried him and instituted his cult. In short order a monastery arose over his grave; this in time became the great monastic center of San Millán de la Cogolla with its two monasteries, the original de Suso and the later de Yuso ('above' and 'below'). He is one of the patrons of Spain, and was invoked in wars against the Moors. In art, Emilian is shown on horseback, fighting Moors.
The first and third views here are of ivory panels from Emilian's eleventh-century reliquary (these panels now in the Muso Arqueológico in Madrid), showing scenes from his life: http://www.arteguias.com/romanico_sanmillancogolla.htm
The second of those shows Emilian between Sts. Asellus and Hesperius. Two other panels:
http://www.vallenajerilla.com/berceo/braulio/DVC00088bis.JPG
http://www.vallenajerilla.com/berceo/braulio/DVC00107bis.JPG
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Cadwaladr (d. 664) was a king of Gwynedd, who won such a great reputation for piety and love of peace that he won the nickname "battle-shunner."
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Emilian/Millan Cucullatus /de Cogolla / Aemilian of the Cowl ((Cucullatus/Cogolla means "with the hood") (d. 574) We know about Emilian (in Spanish, Millán de la Cogolla; in the Latin of the Bollandists, Aemilianus Cucullatus conf. in Tarracone) from his brief Vita by St. Braulio of Zaragoza, written some sixty year's after Emilian's death but drawing on the reminiscences of several who had known him. According to this account, at the age of twenty the shepherd Emilian (one of his attributes is a shepherd's pipe) was called by God to a life of contemplation and penitence. After a period of attachment to the hermit St. Felix, he lived in various places first as a solitary and then as an ascetic priest in his native town of Berceo. There his charity to the poor caused other clerics to slander him to the local bishop, who in turn removed Emilian from office.
Emilian then retired to the countryside in the district of today's La Rioja now known from a Spanish form of his appellation Cucullatus as la Cogolla, where he spent the remainder of his life as a hermit, dying at about age 100. Disciples whom he had attracted buried him and instituted his cult. In short order a monastery arose over his grave; this in time became the great monastic center of San Millán de la Cogolla with its two monasteries, the original de Suso and the later de Yuso ('above' and 'below'). He is one of the patrons of Spain, and was invoked in wars against the Moors. In art, Emilian is shown on horseback, fighting Moors.
The first and third views here are of ivory panels from Emilian's eleventh-century reliquary (these panels now in the Muso Arqueológico in Madrid), showing scenes from his life: http://www.arteguias.com/romanico_sanmillancogolla.htm
The second of those shows Emilian between Sts. Asellus and Hesperius. Two other panels:
http://www.vallenajerilla.com/berceo/braulio/DVC00088bis.JPG
http://www.vallenajerilla.com/berceo/braulio/DVC00107bis.JPG
