A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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April 16
April 16
Bishop
Butler spells the name Turibius. As bishop of Astorga in Spain he kept up church discipline and defended the faith against the Priscillianist heresy. St. Leo the Great supported him and wrote him a letter. Butler and Baring-Gould agree on about 460.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Keep their day. Remember them on April 16 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: April 16
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Turibius of Astorga's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Catedral de Astorga, Santo Toribio.jpg · Rodelar · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Image: Rodelar, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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.
