Donatus was a learned Irishman.
October 25
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Bishop
Donatus was a learned Irishman. While on pilgrimage to Rome he was stopped in Tuscany and made Bishop of Fiesoli against his will, in 816 according to Butler.
He governed the see with great holiness and wisdom. Baring-Gould, the text on this page, places his death about 874.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 52 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
One day after a confirmation, a boy returning to his mother from the church was carried off by a wolf.
Pray a little every day. Prayer runs all through this account.
Keep their day. Remember them on October 25 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
One day after a confirmation, a boy returning to his mother from the church was carried off by a wolf. She ran shrieking to the bishop, who prayed, and the wolf returned from the wood into which it had carried the child, and deposited its burden unhurt at the altar steps..£ Romanus.
Feast: October 25
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Donatus of Fiesoli's story, and a nudge to keep going.
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.
