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stitchwhichSome stories are hard to decide on, if they should be included or perhaps left unmentioned. This is one.
Andrew of Rinn (d. 1462) Andrew was a three-year-old from near Innsbruck, Austria. His uncle was looking out after little Andrew, but the child’s mother one day found his slashed and hanged body in a nearby wood. The uncle blamed the murder on Jews who had passed through the area. "There seems to have been no suspicion of Jews at the time the murder was committed; for none were brought before the magistrates…" Andrew wasn't formally canonized, but his cult was popular and Benedict XIV allowed the cultus in 1752 but refused to proceed with a canonization.
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John Gualbert (d. 1073) John was the son of a noble Florentine family. He converted to the religious life when he met with his brother's murderer - but the man begged for forgiveness and prostrated himself in the shape of a cross. John couldn't bring himself to take his vengeance, and soon became a monk at San Miniato, only to be repelled by the behavior of a simonist abbot. He decided to go off and become a hermit instead. After a time at Camaldoli he founded a monastery of his own - Vallombrosa, near Fiesole. John was a dedicated combatant of simony, most notably against Peter Mezzabarba, the simonist bishop of Florence. Despite his close ties to Hildebrand (Gregory VII), John Gualbert was not canonized until 1193. He was credited with miracles and the gift of prophecy. While he won a formal canonization (despite all the trouble he had caused back in the 1050s and 1060s by ignoring papal gag orders), in 1969 his cult was cut down to local observance.
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John the Iberian (d. c1002) This Iberia = Georgia, east of the Black Sea. John was a noble of the region who was a great military leader but gave up his military career and family in middle age to become a monk on Mt. Olympus (with his wife’s consent). In c970 he and his son (St. Euthymius) took up residence on Mt. Athos to avoid his many admirers. They ended up creating a monastery there for Iberian monks, called Iviron, in 980. John suffered from gout during last years of his life.
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Paulinus of Antioch & Companions (c67? 1st century?/4th century?) Thirteenth-century legend tells that Paulinus was a native of Antioch, sent to Lucca to be its first bishop by St. Peter, and then martyred along with a priest, a deacon, and a soldier. There was a Paulinus who was bishop of Lucca in the fourth century (355-365), who may be the historical saint behind the legend. A sarcophagus was found in 1261, at Lucca, bearing the inscription, "Here is the body of the Blessed Paulinus, the first bishop of Lucca, and a disciple of S. Peter the Apostle."
Andrew of Rinn (d. 1462) Andrew was a three-year-old from near Innsbruck, Austria. His uncle was looking out after little Andrew, but the child’s mother one day found his slashed and hanged body in a nearby wood. The uncle blamed the murder on Jews who had passed through the area. "There seems to have been no suspicion of Jews at the time the murder was committed; for none were brought before the magistrates…" Andrew wasn't formally canonized, but his cult was popular and Benedict XIV allowed the cultus in 1752 but refused to proceed with a canonization.
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John Gualbert (d. 1073) John was the son of a noble Florentine family. He converted to the religious life when he met with his brother's murderer - but the man begged for forgiveness and prostrated himself in the shape of a cross. John couldn't bring himself to take his vengeance, and soon became a monk at San Miniato, only to be repelled by the behavior of a simonist abbot. He decided to go off and become a hermit instead. After a time at Camaldoli he founded a monastery of his own - Vallombrosa, near Fiesole. John was a dedicated combatant of simony, most notably against Peter Mezzabarba, the simonist bishop of Florence. Despite his close ties to Hildebrand (Gregory VII), John Gualbert was not canonized until 1193. He was credited with miracles and the gift of prophecy. While he won a formal canonization (despite all the trouble he had caused back in the 1050s and 1060s by ignoring papal gag orders), in 1969 his cult was cut down to local observance.
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John the Iberian (d. c1002) This Iberia = Georgia, east of the Black Sea. John was a noble of the region who was a great military leader but gave up his military career and family in middle age to become a monk on Mt. Olympus (with his wife’s consent). In c970 he and his son (St. Euthymius) took up residence on Mt. Athos to avoid his many admirers. They ended up creating a monastery there for Iberian monks, called Iviron, in 980. John suffered from gout during last years of his life.
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Paulinus of Antioch & Companions (c67? 1st century?/4th century?) Thirteenth-century legend tells that Paulinus was a native of Antioch, sent to Lucca to be its first bishop by St. Peter, and then martyred along with a priest, a deacon, and a soldier. There was a Paulinus who was bishop of Lucca in the fourth century (355-365), who may be the historical saint behind the legend. A sarcophagus was found in 1261, at Lucca, bearing the inscription, "Here is the body of the Blessed Paulinus, the first bishop of Lucca, and a disciple of S. Peter the Apostle."
