A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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June 23
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His wife would not leave him, and this having occasioned a certain amount of scandal, Simplicius took a pan of red-hot charcoal from a girl, and poured the embers into the lap of his mantle, which remained unsinged.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on June 23 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
…tells us that he was elected, being only a layman. His wife would not leave him, and this having occasioned a certain amount of scandal, Simplicius took a pan of red-hot charcoal from a girl, and poured the embers into the lap of his mantle, which remained unsinged. The people were satisfied by this miracle that there was no occasion for their being offended.
The pagans of Autun were wont once in a year to draw forth the wagon of Berecynth. Simplicius by the sign of the cross arrested the car, and overthrew the idoL
Feast: June 23
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Simplicius of Autun's story, and a nudge to keep going.
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.
