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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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November 26 · Bishop, Martyr

St. Bellinus

St. Bellinus

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

November 26
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop
Martyr

Early life

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

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

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 November 26 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, Ferrarius, &c. Canonized by Eugenius IV. in Bellinus Bertaldus succeeded Sinibald in the see of Padua, in the year 1128, Sinibald having been removed from it in 1124. A nobleman named Thomas Capiuaci who had lands in his diocese did not pay his tithes. The bishop proceeded against him, and forced him to refund arrears. This so exasperated the noble, that he obtained the assassination of Bellinus.

Feast days

Feast: November 26

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

Also on November 26
R

St. Reolus of Rheims

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P

St. Peter of Alexandria

November 26 · Bishop, Martyr
C

St. Conrad of Constance

November 26 · Bishop
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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.