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April 8 · Bishop

St. Urbicius of Clermont

St. Urbicius of Clermont

Traditional feast

April 8
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Bishop

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on April 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Authority*— S. Gregory of Tours, Hist. FranS. Urbicius was a Senator, and was elected to be bishop of Clermont, whereupon he separated from his wife and bade her live in a convent But after a while the woman yearned to be back with her husband, and she came to him saying, “Why dost thou shut the door against me? Why dost thou not receive me, thine own wife? Listen to the words of S. Paul, ‘ Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and then come together again / 1 I am thine own wife, and now I return to thee.” Then his heart softened at the sound of her dear voice, and the memories of happy years spent together; his resolution melted away, and he opened the door and received her once more.

Feast days

Feast: April 8

Nine days · Free

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

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

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.