A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
January 4
January 5 (also listed: June 1, July 22, August 28, August 30)
Bishop
Confessor
William of Malmesbury says the history of Rumon's life was destroyed in the wars. He was a bishop, though of what see is not known.
He was venerated at Tavistock in Devonshire, where Ordulf, earl of Devonshire, built a church in his honour before 960. Butler gives no date for his life.
Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 73 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
William of Malmesbury informs us that the history of S. Rumon's life was destroyed by the wars, which devastated England. He was a bishop; but of what see we do not know. Many of the early Saints of the Church in Cornwall, Wales, and Ireland, received episcopal consecration, without jurisdiction.
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 4 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
William of Malmesbury informs us that the history of S. Rumon's life was destroyed by the wars, which devastated England. He was a bishop; but of what see we do not know. Many of the early Saints of the Church in Cornwall, Wales, and Ireland, received episcopal consecration, without jurisdiction. His body was preserved at Tavistock, in Devonshire, where Ordulf, Earl of Devonshire, built a church under his invocation, before the year 960.
Feast: January 5
Traditional: January 4
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Rumon'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.