Subj : January 15th - St. Maurus, Abbot To : All From : rich Date : Thu Jan 14 2021 09:19:46 From: rich January 15th - St. Maurus, Abbot d. 584 AMONG other noblemen who placed their sons under the care of St. Benedict to be brought up in piety and learning a certain Equitius left his son Maurus, then but 12 years old; and when he was grown up St. Benedict made him his assistant in the government of Subiaco. The boy Placid, going one day to fetch water, fell into the lake and was carried the distance of a bow-shot from the bank. St. Benedict saw this in spirit in his cell, and bade Maurus run and draw him out. Maurus obeyed, walked unknowingly upon the water, and dragged out Placid by the hair. He attributed the miracle to the prayers of St. Benedict; but the abbot declared that God had rewarded the obedience of the disciple. Not long after, the holy patriarch retired to Monte Cassino, and St. Maurus may have become superior at Subiaco. This, which we learn from St. Gregory the Great, is all that can be told with any probability regarding the life of St. Maurus. It is, however, stated upon the authority of a pretended biography by pseudo-Faustus--i.e. Abbot Odo of Glanfeuil--that St. Maurus, coming to France, founded by the liberality of King Theodebert the great abbey of Glanfeuil, afterwards called Saint-Maur-sur-Loire, which he governed until his seventieth year. Maurus then resigned the abbacy, and passed the remainder of his life in solitude to prepare himself for his passage to eternity. After two years he fell sick, and died on January 15 in the year 584. He was buried on the right side of the altar in the church of St. Martin, and on a roll of parchment laid in his tomb was inscribed this epitaph =E2=80=9CMaurus, a monk and deacon, who came into France in the days of Kin= g Theodebert, and died the 18th day before the month of February.=E2=80=9D Th= at this parchment was really found in the middle of the ninth century is probable enough; but there is no reliable evidence to establish the fact that the Maurus so described is identical with the Maurus who was the disciple of St. Benedict. He is mentioned in St.. Gregory the Great's biography of the latter as the first oblate; offered to the monastery by his noble Roman parents as a young boy to be brought up in the monastic life. Four stories involving Maurus recounted by Gregory formed a pattern for the ideal formation of a Benedictine monk. The most famous of these involved St. Maurus's rescue of Saint Placidus, a younger boy offered to St. Benedict at the same time as St. Maurus. The incident has been reproduced in many medieval and Renaissance paintings. Saints Maurus and Placidus are venerated together on 5 October. Bible Quote: 18 But the path of the just is like shining light, that grows in brilliance till perfect day.* 19The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know on what they stumble.=C2 (Proverbs 4:18-19) Saint Quote: Prudence must precede every action which we undertake; for, if prudence be wanting, there is nothing, however good it may seem, which is not turned into evil. -- St. Basil <><><><> St. Theresa's Prayer to the Holy face O Jesus, Who in Thy bitter Passion didst become "the most abject of men, a man of sorrows," I venerate Thy Sacred Face whereon there once did shine the beauty and sweetness of the Godhead ... but now it has become for me as if it were the Face of a leper! Nevertheless, under those disfigured features, I recognize Thy Infinite Love and I am consumed with the desire to love Thee and make Thee loved by all men. The tears which well up abundantly in Thy Sacred Eyes appear to me as so many precious pearls that I love to gather up, in order to purchase the souls of poor sinners by means of their infinite value. O Jesus, Whose adorable Face ravished my heart, I implore Thee to fix deep within me Thy Divine Image and to set me on fire with Thy Love, that I may be found worthy to come to the contemplation of Thy glorious Face in Heaven. Amen. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .