A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
March 17
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Bishop
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 110 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Agricola was born of a senatorial family. In his youth he formed a warm attachment for S. Venantius Fortunatus, the Christian poet, and author of the magnificent hymn, Vexilla regis , "The royal banners forward go." In 532, he was appointed bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on March 17 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
S. Agricola was born of a senatorial family. In stature he was diminutive, but the greatness of his soul redeemed him from that disrespect which his short stature might have brought upon him. He was eloquent, of refined manners, prudent in judgment. In his youth he formed a warm attachment for S. Venantius Fortunatus, the Christian poet, and author of the magnificent hymn, Vexilla regis , "The royal banners forward go." In 532, he was appointed bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône. He died at the age of eighty-three, in the year 580, and was buried in the Church of S. Marcellus, near Châlons, where his relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] are preserved over the high altar.
Feast: March 17
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Agricola of…'s story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.
