A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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Gaudentius was a native of Ivrea (Eporœdia), under the shadows of the Alps; he was brought up as a Christian, and exhibited early indications of piety.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Gaudentius was a native of Ivrea (Eporœdia), under the shadows of the Alps; he was brought up as a Christian, and exhibited early indications of piety. On reaching man's estate he went to Novara, was ordained priest, and became so distinguished for his sanctity, that S. Ambrose [bishop of Milan (d. 397)] visited him. When Constantius, the Arian [followers of Arius, who taught that the Son is a created being, not fully God] Emperor, exiled S. Eusebius [Eusebius of Caesarea (d. c. 339), the first historian of the Church], the Catholic Bishop of Vercelli, Gaudentius went into exile with him; on his return he was elected to the episcopal throne of Novara.
Feast: January 22
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Gaudentius of Novara's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). 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.
