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April 19 · Feast

Sl Marcellinus

Sl Marcellinus, B. of Embrun

Traditional feast

April 19
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on April 19 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Galilean Martyrologies. Authority Mention by Gregory of Tours.] According to the legend, Marcellinus, bishop of Embrun in Gaul, converted the last Pagan in his city. At table one day a man confessed he was the only Pagan remaining in Embrun, and that a miracle would alone convert him. As he spoke, his glass fell on the ground and broke, Marcellinus took up the pieces, and restored the glass as it was before.

Feast days

Feast: April 19

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sl Marcellinus's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on April 19
V

St. Vincent of Calahorra

April 19 · Martyr
G

St. Gerold

April 19 · Hermit
V

Sts. Victor

April 19 · Martyrs
← All 1726 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.