A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
May 9
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Hermas was a Christian of standing in Rome whom St Paul greets in his Letter to the Romans (16:14).
Origen thought he wrote the early Christian book called The Shepherd. Butler thinks that book is more likely the work of a later Hermas and notes that scholars dated it anywhere from before 95 to about 142. In The Shepherd an angel, appearing as a shepherd, instructs the author. The book has three parts: Visions, Commandments and Parables.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on May 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: May 9
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Hermas's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Canon Muratori.png · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles · Public domain, 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: Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Wikimedia Commons (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.
