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November 7 · Bishop

St. Prosdochimus

St. Prosdochimus

Traditional feast

November 7
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop

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

Keep their day. Remember them on November 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Authority The forged Acts, a composition of the 1 2th cent., pretending to be by S. Maximus, his successor in the see of Padua. See, concerning this infamous forgery, S. Justin a, Oct. 7, |ROSDOCHIMUS is said to have been a disciple of S. Peter, and to have been consecrated by Pius, first Bishop of Padua. The Acts of S. Justina were forged in the twelfth century, as if written by Prosdochimus, an eye-witness of what took place.

Feast days

Feast: November 7

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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St. Achillas

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St. Herculanus

St. Herculanus

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St. Willibrord of Utrecht

St. Willibrord of Utrecht

November 7 · Archbishop
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

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.