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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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July 11 · Martyr

St. Sidronius

St. Sidronius

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

July 11
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

July 11 (also listed: September 8)
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Represents

Martyr

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. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on July 11 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman, Gallican, and Belgian Martyrologies. Authority: — The apocryphal Acts, composed in Flanders in 1062.] |N 1062, Adela, wife of Baldwin the Pius, count of Flanders, translated the bones of S. Sidronius from Rome to Messines, south of Ypern, in Flanders. About this time, Acts of the Saint were fabricated: they are full of absurdities, and do not deserve further notice. The church of Sens, in France, however, claimed also to possess the relics of this martyr. a CYNDEUS, P.M.

Feast days

Feast: July 11

Nine days · Free

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

Also on July 11
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St. Hildulf

July 11 · Bishop, Abbot
S

Sts. Sigisbert

July 11 · Martyr
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Sources & notes

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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.