Their story
John was a native of Great Britain who lived as a recluse at Chinon in the diocese of Tours. He planted laurels by his cell, and miracles were reported at his tomb. Butler and Baring-Gould agree on the sixth century.
A life spent serving ordinary people.
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John was a native of Great Britain who lived as a recluse at Chinon in the diocese of Tours. He planted laurels by his cell, and miracles were reported at his tomb. Butler and Baring-Gould agree on the sixth century.
S. Radegund, fearing lest her husband Clothau should tear her by force from the monastic retreat she had chosen, sent to the venerable John an ornament of great value, asking from him in return his old sack-cloth dress, and his prayers that she might be preserved from being forced back into the world she had deserted. After a night spent in prayer the priest sent word to her that she had nothing to fear from the king. He died, covered with honour, reverenced by all the neighbourhood, at an advanced age, and was buried in his oratory, near the church of S. Maximus.
Pray a little every day. Prayer runs all through this account.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A life spent serving ordinary people.
S. Radegund, fearing lest her husband Clothau should tear her by force from the monastic retreat she had chosen, sent to the venerable John an ornament of great value, asking from him in return his old sack-cloth dress, and his prayers that she might be preserved from being forced back into the world she had deserted.
After a night spent in prayer the priest sent word to her that she had nothing to fear from the king. He died, covered with honour, reverenced by all the neighbourhood, at an advanced age, and was buried in his oratory, near the church of S. Maximus. June >j. j.SVS. Ariald and Herlembald.
Feast: June 26
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. John of Chinon's story, and a nudge to keep going.
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.
