Is Saint Amator the one to whom we owe Rocamadour? Also, if I remember
correctly, Saint Marculf, "Marcou" in French, because of the linguistic
confusion with the sound of his name is the patron saint of those with
neck diseases or "marks on the neck."
K
Bill East wrote:
>
> 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 . .
> .
>
> 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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