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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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June 10 · Bishop

St. Ithamar of Rochester

St. Ithamar of Rochester

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

June 10
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

June 10
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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Bishop

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. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 10 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Anglican Martyrologies, but by Menardus and Bucelinus, through a misprint in Harpsfield whom they followed, on Jan. ioth, instead of June 10th. Authority Mention by Bede, lib. Hi., c. 14, 20. J S. Ithamar, a man of Kent, as Bede informs us, was ordained by Archbishop Honorius, and appointed to the see of Rochester. He was a man of learning and piety. After his death miracles were wrought at his tomb, wherefore his body was translated by Gundulf, bishop of

Feast days

Feast: June 10

Nine days · Free

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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.