St. Romulus

Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

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St. Romulus

St. Romulus

Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Traditional feast

November 9
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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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. Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Keep their day. Remember them on November 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrology on Dec. 25. Authority: — The Lections of the Bourges Breviary.] S. Romulus, popularly called Saint Romble, was bom in Brittany. Urged by the desire of leading a life of perfection, he quitted his own country and relations, and came into Berry. He built a monastery near Ch&teau-Gordon, called afterwards Saint-Satur, and now Souligny, which he dedicated to S. Peter. Every year, during Lent, he lived in a solitary cell. In 463, Count Giles defeated the Visigoths near Genabum; and after the victory took Ch&teau-Gordon, which he gave up to plunder. S. Romulus hastened to the Count, and implored him to withdraw the order and save the wretched inhabitants from outrage and robbery. At first he could not prevail, but the Count was persuaded next day to stop the sack and restrain his soldiers from further violence. S. Romulus went in pilgrimage to Rome; on his return he found Cavaillon in flames; with the sign of the cross he extinguished the conflagration. He died at an advanced age, and was buried in a chapel bearing his name at Sancerre. Some ruins of the building remain. At Souligny is a spring which is called after him, and believed to be miraculous. No relics of the saint have been preserved.

Feast days

Feast: November 9

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Gold Solidus of Romulus Augustulus.jpg · ANS · CC0, 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: ANS, Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

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.