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stitchwhichAttala(s) of Bobbio (d. 626 or 627) Attala was the son of a Burgundian noble who had him classically educated by the bishop of Gap in the French Alps. Unhappy with his "worldly" studies, Attala stole away from Gap along with two servants and became a monk at Lérins. Finding life there insufficiently strict, he next entered Columban's recently founded monastery of Luxeuil. When Columban ran into difficulty with the Burgundian bishops and the Burgundian monarchy and was forced to leave Luxeuil, Attala joined other members of the community in following him into northern Italy, where in 614 they established their influential monastery at Bobbio in the Appennines southwest of Piacenza. In 615 Attala succeeded Columban as abbot and made himself unpopular with some through his insistence on strict discipline. Under his rule, Bobbio became one of the great monastic centers of Europe. According to Jonas, abbot Atala also raised from the dead a monk killed on the orders of the demonically possessed Lombard king Arioald (an Arian) and followed this up by curing Arioald of his possession. When he died, he was buried in Columbanus' tomb.
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Hymelin, priest (c750) The blessed Hymelin, priest and confessor, was a near relative of S. Rumbold, and an Irishman. Returning home from a pilgrimage to Rome, he became in at Vissenaeken, near Tirlemont in Brabant. As he lay dying, a girl gave him a sip of water from her pitcher. The water in the pitcher was turned to wine. "And as the soul of Hymelin fled, the chimes of the church began to play sweetly in the air, though no man touched the bells."
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Simplicius, pope (d. 483) A native of Tivoli, S. succeeded pope St. Hilar(i)us in 468. Although we know of a couple of actions in which he asserted the authority of Rome in the West, the bulk of his extra-Roman activity concerned Eastern matters. He was a committed defender of Chalcedonian orthodoxy against the monophysites, whom he opposed at every turn. But when it came to the twenty-eighth canon of the Council of Chalcedon, which had elevated the patriarch of Constantinople to a position of primus inter pares in the East, Simplcius' basic position was different. He refused Leo II's request that he confirm this canon and reproved the patriarch Acacius when the latter acted on his own authority to consecrate a patriarch of Antioch to succeed the murdered Stephen II. In Rome, Simplicius erected a church, no longer extant, to St. Bibiana. He also built today's Santo Stefano al (Monte) Celio, a.k.a. Santo Stefano Rotondo. Originally designed in the form of a Greek cross enclosing within its arms three concentric circles, each higher than the next, in its outline and dimensions this church recalls the Rotunda of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
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Peter de Geremia (blessed) (d. 1452) Peter was a brilliant student at the University of Bologna and all set for a successful career as a lawyer. But then one night he was visited by the spirit of a recently dead relative, a lawyer, who told of how he had been damned for the sin of pride. Peter changed his mind about studying the law and entered the Order of Preachers. He became one of the greatest preachers of Sicily, living in Palermo. Among his many miracles, Peter's prayer is believed to have saved Catania from an eruption of Mt. Etna.
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Hymelin, priest (c750) The blessed Hymelin, priest and confessor, was a near relative of S. Rumbold, and an Irishman. Returning home from a pilgrimage to Rome, he became in at Vissenaeken, near Tirlemont in Brabant. As he lay dying, a girl gave him a sip of water from her pitcher. The water in the pitcher was turned to wine. "And as the soul of Hymelin fled, the chimes of the church began to play sweetly in the air, though no man touched the bells."
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Simplicius, pope (d. 483) A native of Tivoli, S. succeeded pope St. Hilar(i)us in 468. Although we know of a couple of actions in which he asserted the authority of Rome in the West, the bulk of his extra-Roman activity concerned Eastern matters. He was a committed defender of Chalcedonian orthodoxy against the monophysites, whom he opposed at every turn. But when it came to the twenty-eighth canon of the Council of Chalcedon, which had elevated the patriarch of Constantinople to a position of primus inter pares in the East, Simplcius' basic position was different. He refused Leo II's request that he confirm this canon and reproved the patriarch Acacius when the latter acted on his own authority to consecrate a patriarch of Antioch to succeed the murdered Stephen II. In Rome, Simplicius erected a church, no longer extant, to St. Bibiana. He also built today's Santo Stefano al (Monte) Celio, a.k.a. Santo Stefano Rotondo. Originally designed in the form of a Greek cross enclosing within its arms three concentric circles, each higher than the next, in its outline and dimensions this church recalls the Rotunda of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
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Peter de Geremia (blessed) (d. 1452) Peter was a brilliant student at the University of Bologna and all set for a successful career as a lawyer. But then one night he was visited by the spirit of a recently dead relative, a lawyer, who told of how he had been damned for the sin of pride. Peter changed his mind about studying the law and entered the Order of Preachers. He became one of the greatest preachers of Sicily, living in Palermo. Among his many miracles, Peter's prayer is believed to have saved Catania from an eruption of Mt. Etna.
