Today, 24 September is the feast of...
Geremarus or Germer, abbot (658): One of the numerous Frankish noblemen
who after marrying and following a secular career, gave it all up for the
monastic life.
Gerard, bishop of Csanad, martyr (1046): Gerard was originally a monk in
the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore at Venice. While making
a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he travelled through Hungary where he met King
Stephen. Stephen was so impressed with Gerard's learning that he made him
tutor of his son Emeric.
Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (1218): Like his fellow hermit and fellow
Yorkshireman Richard Rolle, Robert Flower, "the Holy Hermit of
Knaresborough", enjoyed a considerable *cultus* in medieval England which
was never confirmed by canonization. His name has not been found in
calendars, but the Trinitarian church at Knaresborough was called St
Robert's, and Matthew Paris mentions him with St Edmund of Abingdon and St
Elizabeth of Hungary as one of the holiest people of his time.
Our Lady of Ransom (patron of Mercedarians, founded c. 1220s): On this
day, in a vision Peter Nolasco was requested by the BVM to establish a
religious order especially devoted to the ransom of captives. Peter
Nolasco thereupon founded the Mercedarian order.
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Carolyn Muessig
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