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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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June 7 · Hermit, Martyr

St. Aventine

St. Aventine

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

June 7
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Hermit
Martyr

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

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Galilean Martyro’.ogies. Authority An ancient life of S. Aventine founded on popular tradition.] S. Aventine was a native of Larbouste in the Pyrenees, and lived as a hermit among the rocks of a lovely valley near the Lac d’Oo. He was ordained by Abraham, bishop of Comminges, and sent to preach in Larbouste. The Pyrenees at that time were infested with Moors, from Spain, and Aventine had many hair-breadth escapes from their pursuit, but was finally taken and beheaded by them. He is said to have plucked a thorn from the foot of a lame bear, but the same story is told of S. Aventine of Troyes (Feb. 4th). His relics are preserved in the church, bearing his name at Larbouste.

Feast days

Feast: June 7

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Aventine's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

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.