St. Nonnosus

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September 2 · Abbot

St. Nonnosus

St. Nonnosus

Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Traditional feast

September 2
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

September 2
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Abbot

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 11 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

The body of S. Nonnosus is now at Friesingen, in Bavaria.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Keep their day. Remember them on September 2 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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The full original · 11 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Modern Roman Martyrology, inserted by Baronius. Authority ^Mentioned in the Dialogues of S. Gregory the Great, Lib. i. c. 7.] S. Nonnosus was abbot of a monastery which had been founded on Mount Soracte by Carloman. He is said by S. Gregory the Great to have prayed that a huge stone which encumbered the garden of the monastery might be removed, and the rock at once rolled from the spot down the mountain-side.

The body of S. Nonnosus is now at Friesingen, in Bavaria.

Feast days

Feast: September 2

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Nonnosus's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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← All 1726 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Thierhaupten St. Peter und Paul Nonnosus 607.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.