Leo III known to some of us less for his sanctity than for the
ever-controverted issue of his coronoration of Charlemagne as Roman Emperor
on Christmas, 800.
jw
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Subject: Interim Saints - June 12th
> Interim Saints - June 12th
>
> BASILIDES and companions, martyrs (about A.D. 296)
>
> Saints Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius, Roman soldiers . . .
> a
> boat manned by angels . . . converted their jailor . . . various
> tortures . . . ordered them to be decapitated.
>
> ONUPHRIUS, hermit (4th or 5th century)
>
> Paphnutius, an abbot in Lower Egypt, went a pilgrimage into the
> desert
> to see how the hermits who lived in desolate places were serving God
> .
> .. . and after seventeen days he saw a man covered with hair, having
> only an apron of palm-leaves, and his aspect was so horrible, that
> Paphnutius thought he saw a satyr, and he ran up the side of a
> mountain. But the man called to him, "Come down to me, man of God,
> for
> I am a man also, dwelling in the desert for love of God." . . . And
> then the old man knelt down and said, "Into thy hands, O Lord, I
> commend my spirit," and he bowed his face to the ground, and was
> dead.
>
> CUNERA (date uncertain)
>
> The legend of S. Cunera is a wonderful combination of improbabilities
> and impossibilities.
>
> LEO III, pope (A.D. 816)
>
> S. Leo III was a native of Rome, and from an early age was brought up
> in the Lateran palace, where he learnt the psalter, studied Holy
> Scripture and canon law . . . On the death of Pope Adrian I
> (Christmas
> Day, 798) an election of unexampled rapidity, and, as it seemed, of
> perfect unanimity among the clergy, the nobles, and the people,
> raised
> Leo III to the pontifical throne.
>
> ESKILL, bishop and martyr (11th cent.)
>
> S. Eskill, or Oskull, went with S. Sigfried of York (Feb 15th) into
> Sweden, as his chaplain, to assist him in spreading the Gospel among
> the Swedes, who were only partially converted. S. Sigfried
> consecrated
> him bishop . . . Then the whole body of the unbelieving Swedes,
> yelling, fell on the bishop, dragged him to a suitable spot where
> there
> were many stones, and pelted him to death.
>
> JOHN OF SAGAHUN, confessor (A.D. 1479)
>
> John of Sagahun, or John of S. Fecundh, as he is also called, was the
> eldes son of honourable and wealthy parents at Sagahun, in Spain . .
> .
> In preaching S. John was bold in attacking sin
> . . . He preached also very energetically against impurity.
>
> Oriens.
>
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