Subj : October 9th - St. Sabinus To : All From : rich Date : Mon Oct 08 2018 08:19:58 From: rich October 9th - St. Sabinus (Also known as St. Savin) 5th v. This saint is venerated as the apostle of the Lavedan, that district of the Pyrenees at one end of which is situated the town of Lourdes. According to his legend he was born at Barcelona and brought up by his widowed mother, who when he became a young man sent him to the care of his uncle Eutilius at Poitiers. Being appointed tutor to his young cousin, Savin (Sabinus) so impressed him by his religious example and inspiring words that the youth secretly left home and went to the great monastery at Ligug=C3=A9. Eutilius and his wife besought Savin to use his influence with their son to induce him to return home. But he refused, quoting the words of our Lord that He must be loved even more than father and mother, and furthermore announced his intention of becoming a monk at Ligug=C3=A9 himself. St. Savin eventually left there with the object of becoming a solitary. He walked to Tarbes and from thence made his way to the place in the Lavedan then called Palatium Aemilianum, where there was a monastery. The abbot, Fronimius, showed him a place a little way off in the mountains well suited to his design. Here St. Savin built himself a cell, which he afterwards exchanged for a pit in the ground, saying that everyone should expiate his sins in the way and the measure that seems to himself called for. This in reply to Fronimius, who on one of his frequent visits to the hermit expressed the opinion that his austerities were becoming exaggerated. Savin preached to the peasants of the neighbourhood by his mouth and by the example of his kindly and penitential spirit, and many and remarkable was the miracles with which they credited him. For example, a farmer having roughly stopped him from crossing his land to reach a spring, he struck water from the rocks with his staff; and one night, having no dry tinder, he lit his candle by the flames from his own heart! He wore only one garment, summer and winter, and that lasted him for thirteen years. St. Savin was forewarned of his death and sent a message to the monastery, and he was surrounded by clergy, monks and devoted people when his peaceful end came. His body was enshrined in the abbey church, which was afterwards called St. Savin's, and the name exten= ded to the adjacent village, Saint-Savin-de-Tarbes. No reliance can be placed upon the short text of uncertain date printed in the Acta Sanctorum, October, vol. iv (cf. Mabillon, Annales Benedictini, vol. i, p.575); even the century in which the hermit lived is a matter of pure conjecture the above time-heading follows A. Poncelet. It is characteristic of the methods of a certain type of hagiographer that out of these scanty materials a writer in the so-called Petits Bollandistes has evolved a biography of seven closely printed pages (over 4,500 words) in which he speaks with the same detail and definiteness of statement as he might have used in providing a summary of the career of Napoleon I. Saint Quote: No matter how good food is, if poison is mixed with it, it may cause the death of him who eats it. So it is with conversation. A single bad word, an evil action, an unbecoming joke, is often enough to harm one or more young listeners, and may later cause them to lose God's grace. --St. John Bosco Bible Quote: But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:=C2 For whether I or they, so we preach: and so you have believed.=C2 [1Co 15:10-11] DRB <><><><> O Most Holy God O most Holy God, I adore Thee, through the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar, and I offer Thee, through the holy hands of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, all the consecrated Hosts on our Altars as a sacrifice of expiation, reparation= , and atonement for all the sacrileges, profanations, impieties, blasphemies, and crimes committed against Thee throughout the universe. - Amen. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .