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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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October 17 · Bishop, Martyr

St. Hero

St. Hero

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

October 17
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop
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 October 17 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Modem Roman Martyrology. Usuardus, Ado.] AINT HERO, deacon of S. Ignatius, was informed by revelation that he was to succeed his master on the episcopal throne of Antioch, when Ignatius was on his way to martyrdom. And this took place. It is very questionable whether he suffered martyrdom. There is no earlier authority for his having thus suffered than George Syncellus. He ruled the see of Antioch twenty years.

Feast days

Feast: October 17

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Hero'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.