A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 60 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Little of the acts of this Saint is known, and he is here mentioned solely to enable the reader to distinguish the Saint of this name from the historian, and also from his successor Sulpicius the Pious. FOOTNOTES:
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 29 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Little of the acts of this Saint is known, and he is here mentioned solely to enable the reader to distinguish the Saint of this name from the historian, and also from his successor Sulpicius the Pious.
FOOTNOTES:
[132] He is said to have glazed the east window of his oratory with a pane of an hitherto unheard of size.
Feast: January 29
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Sulpicius Severus…'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.
