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A life spent serving ordinary people.

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May 8 · Priest, Confessor

St. Gibrian

St. Gibrian

A life spent serving ordinary people.

Traditional feast

May 8
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Priest
Confessor

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

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 life spent serving ordinary people.

Keep their day. Remember them on May 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Galilean Martyrology, venerated especially at Rheims. The feast of his Translation, April 16th. Authority: — Mention by Flodoard (d. 966), his Historia Ecclesise Remensis. Also in the Acts of S. Tressan.] TRESSAN, an illustrious Irishman, is said re gone to France with his six brothers, in, Helan, German, Veran, Abran, Petran, tree sisters Fracla, Promptia and Posemna, all very devout persons. He stopped in the territory of Rheims, near the Marne, in the days of S. Remigius, who baptized Clovis I. The brethren and sisters dispersed among the forests around the Marne, and lived solitary live s S. Gibrian settled near the little stream Cole, where it flows into the Marne. His body, after his death, was taken to Rheims, and buried in the Abbey Church of S. Remi, but it was torn from its grave and the dust scattered at the French Revolution.

Feast days

Feast: May 8

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Gibrian's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Credits

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.