St. Eustorgius of Milan

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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September 18 · Bishop

St. Eustorgius of Milan

St. Eustorgius of Milan

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

September 18
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

September 18
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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Bishop

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. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on September 18 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Milanese Martyrologies.] In the list which S. Athanasius gives of the great Catholic prelates of his age who stood fast in the faith, who quitted themselves like men, and would not yield to Arianism, though supported by the Emperor, occurs the name of Eustorgins of Milan, and S. Ambrose speaks of him as a confessor.

Feast days

Feast: September 18

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. Eustorgius of Milan's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Sant Eustorgio di Milano.jpg · A ntv · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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: A ntv, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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.