While many in North America may today be celebrating the feast of Blessed
Meleagris Gallopavo--whose feast is observed regionally on the fourth Thursday in November--we will turn instead to a 5th-century French monk and bishop: St. Maximus, Bishop of Riez.
"St. Sidonius assures us that the monastery of Lerins seemed to acquire a new lustre by his prudent conduct and bright example, under which the monks scarcely felt the severities of the rule, so great was the cheerfulness and alacrity with
which they obeyed him. The gift of miracles with which he was favoured, and the great reputation of his sanctity drew great crowds to his monastery from the continent, which, breaking in upon his retirement, obliged him to quit the house, and conceal himself
some days in a forest in the island: though we are assured that the chief reason why he thus lay hid in a very rainy season was, that the clergy and people of Frejus had demanded him for bishop. After this danger was over he again made his appearance at Lerins."
(from Butler's Lives of the Saints, 1866?; online at:
http://www.bartleby.com/210/11/271.html)
Matt Heintzelman
Curator, Austria/Germany Study Center; Rare Book Cataloger, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota 56321-7300
Phone: 320-363-2795; Fax: 320-363-3222
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