A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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Firminus was the third bishop of Amiens. His father, Faustinian, a prefect of Gaul, had been baptised by the martyr St Firmin and named his son after him.
After the death of Eulogius, the second bishop, Firminus took the see and governed it with zeal for forty years. He was buried in the church he had built, now called St Acheul; St Salvius later moved his body into the cathedral.
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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 1 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: September 1
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Firminus of Amiens'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.
