A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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February 19
February 19
Bishop
Confessor
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 54 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Mansuetus is alluded to by many writers, but nothing of interest connected with him has survived; except the fact that he was present at the Roman Synod in 680, under S. Agatho, in which the heresy of the Monothelites was condemned. His relics are preserved in the Church of S. Stephen at Milan.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on February 19 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
S. Mansuetus is alluded to by many writers, but nothing of interest connected with him has survived; except the fact that he was present at the Roman Synod in 680, under S. Agatho, in which the heresy of the Monothelites was condemned.
His relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] are preserved in the Church of S. Stephen at Milan.
Feast: February 19
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Mansuetus of Milan's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: 079 Basilica of Saint Eustorgius in Milan, Italy - Main altar - Saint Mansuetus 1.jpg · A ntv · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
Image: A ntv, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.
