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Interim Saints - April 14th FRONTO, abbot (2nd cent.) In the days of Antoninus the emperor, in the thirteenth year of his reign, an abbot Fronto said to his seventy brethren, "Let us go into the desert, and serve god in solitude" . . . Now a rich man, after a great supper, lay musing in bed, far away on the Nile bank, and he though of the hermits serving god in fasting . . . and his heart smote him, and he resolved to send them food. But how, and whither? Next day he laded seventy camels with provisions, and five with hay, and then he drave the camels forth into the desert, that God might send his angel to guide them whither food was most needed. And after four days they arrived where Fronto and his monks were . . . After that, every year, did the man send food in like manner to Fronto, into the desert. ARDALIO (about A.D. 300) S. Ardalio was an actor . . . who was called on to turn the Christians into ridicule. On the stage was enacted a martyrdom; and when the spectators were applauding his imitation of a Christian before the judge, he shouted with a loud voice, "Know all, that I am in earnest." He was brought before the magistrate and cast into a fire by his orders. LIDWYNA virgin (A.D. 1433) . . . A large abscess formed on her side, which caused intolerable pain . . . she was consumed by an internal fever . . . she took to her bed, from which she did not rise for thirty-three years. Little that she ate would remain on her stomach . . . Her bones, from long lying in bed, broke her skin, and she became a mass of wounds . . . To add to her sufferings, she was now attacked by that marsh-ague which is the scourge of the Low Countries . . . It recurred every three days and lasted for half-a-year at a time [sic] . . . her sores . . . and the worms that bred in them . . . Another of her afflictions was headache, and intense toothache; a sort of cancer formed on her face . . . she lost completely the sight of her right eye . . . Oh dear. BENET OF THE BRIDGE (A.D. 1184) It is related of this saint that he received instructions from an angel to construct a stone bridge over the Rhone against Avignon, in order to put an end to the numerous accidents which had occurred at this dangerous point. He is represented in art carrying an enormous stone upon his shoulder. Oriens. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%