Interim Saints - March 28th
XYSTUS or SIXTUS, pope (A.D. 440)
Saint Sixtus III was a native of Rome. He succeeded Celestin I in 432,
on the Papal throne
. . . He built and adorned many churches in Rome, and died August
18th, 440; and was succeeded by S. Leo the Great.
SPES, abbot (A.D. 513)
S. Spes was an abbot of a monastery, at a place called Cample, or
Campi, bear Nursia, who was blind for forty years, and bore his
affliction with the greatest sweetness and patience . . .
The kind-hearted Abbot of Campi
Would dine on a morsel of scampi . . .
Or what you will.
Oriens.
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