Interim Saints - May 11th
MAMERTIUS, bishop (about A.D. 480)
Saint Mamertius, bishop of Vienne in Gaul, is chiefly famous for having
instituted the Rogation processions. Gaul was groaning and bleeding
from the incursion of the barbarians, the Goths and Huns. Vienne had
been shaken repeatedly by earthquakes, flames had burst from the
hill-tops and consumed large tracts of forest, and driven the wolves
and bears into the city. Added to these disasters came a conflagration
of Vienne, which broke out on Easter night. S. Mamertius, prostrate
before the altar, conceived the idea of instituting annually a
procession with litanies and psalms and prayers, before Ascension, to
supplicate God to have mercy on His people, and to turn from them their
afflictions, and to bless their crops during the year.
GENGULF, martyr (about A.D. 760)
The story of s. Gengulf is sadly obscured by fable . . . He is said to
have been a nobleman of Burgundy, high in favour with Pepin the Short.
FREMUND, king and martyr (circ. A.D. 796)
S. Fremund is said to have been a prince, the son of Offa, king of the
Mercians (d. 794), and to have fought against the Danes. He was
murdered by Oswy, an officer of his father, perhaps at the instigation
of Cenwulf.
MAJOLUS, abbot (A.D. 994)
S. Majolus was born about the year 906, of a wealthy family at
Valenzola, in the diocese of Riez . . . He afterwards became monk at
Cluny, under the abbot Aymard.
FRANCIS OF GIROLAMO, S.J. (A.D. 1716)
His life was spent in fervent mission work among the people of Naples.
Oriens.
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