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October 17 · —

St. Louthiern

St. Louthiern

Traditional feast

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

Current feast

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Represents

Feast

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

Keep their day. Remember them on October 17 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: The Bollandists on this day, when commemorated in Brittany. In the Irish Martyrologies S. Luchtighem of Inistymon on April 28.] In the ancient British litanies of the 7 th cent. S. Louthiem is invoked.1 He is probably the same as S. Luchtighem, abbot of Inistymon, who often visited S. Itta. Very little is known of him, except that he was a disciple of S. Ruadan of Lothra. He probably came to Cornwall, where he has left his name as patron of a parish, S. Ludgran; the church probably occupies the site of his oratory. There he died; but his relics were carried into Brittany, in the 6th century, and thence to Paris in 965. An account of the translation of the relics is preserved in Mabillon.* His shrine is called there “ la Chasse de S. Louthieme.”

Feast days

Feast: October 17

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Louthiern'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.