Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
October 1
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Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 75 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
The body was found by S. Eligius at Seclin where he was martyred, and translated in the 9th century to S. Omer, thence to Chartres, and then to Tournay. The relics were shown in 1143 at Seclin; the Chartres people, however, [Oct. i showed the entire body in their cathedral, and disputed its translation from Chartres to Tournay. Each entire body has established its authenticity by miracles; that at Chartres, however, disappeared at the Revolution.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
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The body was found by S. Eligius at Seclin where he was martyred, and translated in the 9th century to S. Omer, thence to Chartres, and then to Tournay. The relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] were shown in 1143 at Seclin; the Chartres people, however, [Oct. i showed the entire body in their cathedral, and disputed its translation from Chartres to Tournay. Each entire body has established its authenticity by miracles; that at Chartres, however, disappeared at the Revolution.
Feast: October 1
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Piatus's story, and a nudge to keep going.
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.
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.