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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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April 28 · Martyr

St. Gundebert

St. Gundebert

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

April 28
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

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Martyr

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. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on April 28 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated in the archdiocese of Rheims. Authority The lections for his office in the Rheims Breviary, which have gone through various amplifications.] S. Gundebert, or Gumbert, was a nobleman in the archdiocese of Rheims, when his brother, S. Nivrad, occu1 Converted In prison by S. Jason, July lath, and martyred. Commemorated by the Greeks on April 37th; by the Latins on April 39th. pied that see. His wife was S. Bertha. As they had no children he gave all his property to the Church, and founded a convent dedicated to S. Peter at Rheiras, and a monastery at Avesnes. He then left his wife and went to Ireland, where he entered a monastery. Some marauders having invaded the lands of the abbey, he went out to intreat them to respect the property of the monks, but they fell on him and killed him. His body, and that of S. Bertha, are preserved at Avesnes.

Feast days

Feast: April 28

Nine days · Free

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

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Sources & notes

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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.