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St. Aldegund
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St. Adelelm of Burgos
A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
January 30
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Bishop
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Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 84 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Narses or Barsas, Bishop of Edessa was banished by the Arian Emperor Valens to the Isle of Aradus; but when it was found that multitudes resorted to him, for he was filled with apostolic gifts, the emperor sent him to Oxyrynchus, a city of Egypt But as his fame still attracted attention, he was banished to a greater distance; and this old man, "who was worthy of heaven, was then conveyed to the fortress called Philæ, situated on the frontier of the barbarian nations."
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on January 30 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Narses or Barsas, Bishop of Edessa was banished by the Arian [followers of Arius, who taught that the Son is a created being, not fully God] Emperor Valens to the Isle of Aradus; but when it was found that multitudes resorted to him, for he was filled with apostolic gifts, the emperor sent him to Oxyrynchus, a city of Egypt But as his fame still attracted attention, he was banished to a greater distance; and this old man, "who was worthy of heaven, was then conveyed to the fortress called Philæ, situated on the frontier of the barbarian nations."
Feast: January 30
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Barsas of Edessa's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). 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.