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A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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October 13 · Bishop

St. Simpert of Augsburg

St. Simpert of Augsburg

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

October 13
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

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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. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 13 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and German Martyrologies. Canonized by Pope Nicolas V. in 1450. Authorities: — A life by Adalbert, Prior of S. Ulrich’s, AugsS. Simpert, or Sindebert, was a nephew of Charles the Great, according to some modem authors, but no good grounds for such a statement can be produced. He spent his early life in the abbey of Murbach, near Colmar, and on the death of Tasso, Bishop of Augsburg, in 778, Charlemagne selected him to be his successor. After the death of Abbot Amicho of Murbach he was elected abbot in his room, so that he ruled at the same time an extensive diocese and an important monastery. He rebuilt the church of S. Afra at Augsburg, and greatly benefited by endowments the abbey of Fiissen.

Feast days

Feast: October 13

Nine days · Free

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

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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.