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June 26 · Priest

St. Sampson Xenodochus

St. Sampson Xenodochus

Traditional feast

June 26
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Priest

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 June 26 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menoea and Menology. Syriac and Arabico-Egvptlan Martyrologies. Authority A Greek life given by MetAphrastes.] S. Sampson was bom of honourable parents, related to the emperor, at Rome. He however lived in Constants nople, where he devoted himself to the care of the sick, for whose accommodation he opened a hospital. Justinian, the emperor, being afflicted with a distressing disorder, which the physicians were unable to cure, applied to Sampson, who by his touch entirely removed the disease. The emperor in his gratitude would have lavished on him great gifts, but Sampson would accept nothing except a large and commodious building for conversion into a hospital

Feast days

Feast: June 26

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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Sts. John and Paul

Sts. John and Paul

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St. Vigilius

St. Vigilius

June 26 · Bishop, Martyr
St. Maxentius

St. Maxentius

June 26 · Abbot
← All 1726 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

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.