A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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August 3
August 3
Bishop
Confessor
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 112 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Land seeing a little old woman passing, he stopped her, and asked of her the condition of the city, the customs of its inhabitants, their moral character, what were their rites, laws, and devotion to the Deity.1' Highly gratified with the old woman’s account of Naples, the Prince of the Apostles, without continuing his journey to Rome from Antioch, paused at Naples, and healed Aspren, the kinsman of the old woman, who had given him such a glowing picture of the virtues of the Neapolitans. Aspren was forthwith baptized and consecrated bishop; and then S. Peter continued his journey.
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Land seeing a little old woman passing, he stopped her, and asked of her the condition of the city, the customs of its inhabitants, their moral character, what were their rites, laws, and devotion to the Deity.1' Highly gratified with the old woman’s account of Naples, the Prince of the Apostles, without continuing his journey to Rome from Antioch, paused at Naples, and healed Aspren, the kinsman of the old woman, who had given him such a glowing picture of the virtues of the Neapolitans. Aspren was forthwith baptized and consecrated bishop; and then S. Peter continued his journey.
It is unnecessary to point out that this story is mere idle legend.
Feast: August 3
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Image: Luca Giordano Protector saints of Naples.jpg · Luca Giordano · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Image: Luca Giordano, Wikimedia Commons (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.
