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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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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