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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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September 22 · Bishop

St. Lo of Coutances

St. Lo of Coutances

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

September 22
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

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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 September 22 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Various additions to Usuardus. But the Parisian Martyrology and the Sarum Kalendar, the Lubeck-Cologne Martyrology, Greven, and Molanus on Sept. 21; other martyrologies on Sept. 23. Authority; — A Life of no value, being purely legendary, and therefore not inserted by the Bollandists.] S. Lo, in Latin Laudo or Laudus, is said to have been consecrated Bishop of Coutances about the year 529, though under the canonical age, by dispensation given by Gildard, Archbishop of Rheims. He assisted at the second, third, fourth, and fifth councils of Orleans. In 556 he visited S. Marculf, then about to die in the monastery of Nanteuil, attended him in death, and buried him. He rendered the same office to S. Paternns, Bishop of Avranches, who died

Feast days

Feast: September 22

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. Lo of Coutances's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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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.