Saint Oriens (and others) - 1st May
PHILIP, apostle and martyr (1st cent)
[Nowadays he is remembered, along with St James, on 3rd May]
Saint Philip was born at Bethsaida, a town near the Sea of Tiberias,
the city of SS. Andrew and Peter. Of his parents and way of life the
Gospel history takes no notice, though probably he was a fisherman . .
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JAMES THE LESS, apostle and martyr (1st cent)
The parentage of S. James is so confused that it is impossible to
decide with anything approaching to certainty who was his father, and
what was his relationship to our Blessed Lord . . .
ISIDORA, virgin (date uncertain)
In a convent of religious women at Tabenna, in Upper Egypt, was a
sister named Isidora, whom the rest of the nuns regarded as
half-witted, and they despised her, playing her tricks, and put all the
work up her . . .
AMATOR, bishop of Auxerre (A.D. 418)
Amator was the only son of wealthy and noble parents at Auxerre,
brought up in all the accomplishments suited to his birth and future
prospects . . .
ORIENS, bishop of Auch (A.D. 439)
S. Oriens, Orientius, or Orens, was born at Huescar, in the marches of
Aragaon. He sold his property, gave the price to the poor, and retired
as a hermit to the valley of Lavedan. He became Bishop of Auch, about
A.D. 419, and was sent as ambassador from Theodoric the Ostrogoth to
sue for peace to the Roman general Aetius, in which he was successful.
He is the author of a religious poem called "Commonitorium" still
extant, and died in A.D. 439, after having laboured diligently to root
our the relics of paganism in his diocese.
A great and unjustly neglected saint.
MARCULF, abbot (about A.D. 558)
S. Marculf was born at Bayeux, and was of Frank parentage, as his name
shows (Forest-wolf.) He preached in the diocese of Coutances, and
obtained from king Childebert a grant of land at Nanteuil, on the
coast, for a monastery.
ASAPH, bishop (6th cent)
He daily endeavoured to imitate his master, S. Kentigern, in all
sanctity and abstinence; and to him the man of God bore ever a special
affection, insomuch that to his prudence he committed the care of the
monastery.
SIGISMUND, king and hermit (A.D. 524)
S. Sigismund was the son of Gundebald, king of Burgundy. He was
converted from Arianism by S. Avitus, bishop of Vienne, in 515.
BRIOC, bishop (about 530)
S. Brioc was a native of Cardigan, son of an Irish father and a Saxon
mother . . . About the year 460 he left Paris and returned to South
Wales, where he arrived when his father and mother were holding high
festival. He succeeded in converting them, and he founded a church now
called Llandfriog . . .
KELLACH, bishop of Killala (7th cent.)
S. Ceallach or Kellach, was the son of Eoghan Beul, son of Ceallach,
son of Oilioll Molt. His brother's name was Muireadhach of Cuchongilt.
EVERMAR, martyr (about A.D. 700)
Evermar, a native of Friesland, born of noble parents, came in the days
of Pepin of Herstal on pilgrimage through Belgium to visit the tomb of
S. Servais at Maestricht, and those of other saints in that part [and
was murdered by brigands].
THEODARD, Archbishop of Narbonne (circ. A.D. 893)
S. Theodard is chiefly known thrpough and event in his life which first
brought him into notice, and which we cannot fail to regard with the
strongest reprobation. At his time at Toulouse it was the custom on
Christmas Day, on Good Friday, and on the Feast of the Assumption, for
a Jew to have his cheeks rudely boxed publicly before the cathedral
doors, as part of the religious ceremonial. The Jews complained to the
king, Carloman . . . Theodard then produced a document, which was
unquestionably a forgery, and which pruported to be a charter of
Charlemagne requiring the perpetuation of the offensive ceremony,
because the Jews of Toulouse had invited into the country the forces of
Abdelraman, which he had just succeeded in defeating.
Oriens.
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