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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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December 1 · Bishop

St. Algeric of Verdun

St. Algeric of Verdun

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

December 1
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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Early life

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

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What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on December 1 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. Authorities Greg. Turon. Hist. Franc, lib. ix. c. 10, 12, 13, and a distich of Venantius Fortunatus.] S. Algeric or Ageric, vulgarly called S. Airy, was bom at Harville, in the diocese of Verdun, of a humble family. Thierry, king of Austrasia, acted as his godfather. He was sent to Verdun at the age of seven to study for the Church. He was only thirty-three when made bishop of Verdun, in the room of Desiderius, who died in 554. His simplicity, virtue, and charity, are praised by Venantius Fortunatus, who visited him at Verdun on his way home from Rome. He baptized Childebert, son of Sigebert of Austrasia. Bertfried, who revolted against Childebert, took refuge in the chapel of S. Algeric at the feet of the saint; the emissaries of the king pursued him, and in disregard of the remonstrances of the saint, killed Bertfried in the sanctuary.

Feast days

Feast: December 1

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Algeric of Verdun's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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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.