St. Pastor

A life spent serving ordinary people.

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July 26 · Priest

St. Pastor

St. Pastor

A life spent serving ordinary people.

Traditional feast

July 26
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

August 6
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Represents

Priest

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 life spent serving ordinary people.

Keep their day. Remember them on July 26 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman, but no ancient Latin Martyrologies. Authority: — The Acts of SS. Pudentiana and Praxedis, containing a letter of S. Pastor, not however genuine.] S. Pastor is said by Anastasius Bibliothecarius to have been the brother of Pope S. Pius I. In the second epistle of Pope Pius to Justus, bishop of Vienne, the pope says, “ the priest Pastor has built a title (church), and has worthily fallen asleep in the Lord.” For the mention of S. Pastor in the Acts of SS. Pudentiana and Praxedis, the reader is referred to the notices of

Feast days

Feast: August 6
Traditional: July 26

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Sants Justs i Pastor.JPG · Oliver-Bonjoch · 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: Oliver-Bonjoch, 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.