A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
December 29
July 30 (also listed: June 27)
Bishop
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
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 29 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: July 30
Traditional: December 29
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Crescens's story, and a nudge to keep going.
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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: Unknown authorUnknown author, 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.