A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
June 8
May 29
Bishop
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
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 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: May 29
Traditional: June 8
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Maximus of Aix's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Ettringen St. Maximin und Anna152.JPG · GFreihalter · 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, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
Image: GFreihalter, 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, 1897–98); 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.