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St. Lucian at Beauvais
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St. Atticus of…
A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
January 8
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Bishop
Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 33 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Patiens is said to have been a disciple of S. John the Evangelist, and to have been sent by him into Gaul. He settled at Metz, where he became the fourth Bishop.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on January 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
S. Patiens is said to have been a disciple of S. John the Evangelist, and to have been sent by him into Gaul [roughly modern France and Belgium]. He settled at Metz, where he became the fourth Bishop.
Feast: January 8
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Patiens's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). 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.