Subj : December 1st -St. Agericus
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From : rich
Date : Sat Nov 30 2019 08:21:41

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

December 1st -St. Agericus

St. Agericus was born at or near Verdun, perhaps at Harville, about
the year 521.

=C2 He became one of the clergy of the church of SS Peter and Paul at
Verdun, and when he was 33 was appointed bishop of that city in
succession to St. Desiderius. He was visited there by St. Gregory of
Tours and St. Venantius Fortunatus, both of whom write in his praise:
=E2=80=9CThe poor receive relief, the despairing hope, the naked clothing;
whatever you have, all have=E2=80=9D, says Fortunatus. St. Agericus enjoyed
the favour also of King Sigebert I, whose son, Childebert, he
baptized, and counseled after he came to the throne. But he was not
able to obtain mercy for Bertefroi and other revolting nobles who came
to him for sanctuary and protection. Bertefroi was murdered in the
bishop's own chapel by the royal officers.

A more pleasing association between Agericus and Childebert was when
the whole of the court was billeted on the bishop; there were so many
of them and they were so thirsty that the supply of drink was
stretched to its limit. St. Agericus had the last cask of wine set in
the hall, blessed it, and it proved to have a miraculous and
never-ending flow. Another miracle attributed to him was the delivery
of a condemned malefactor at Laon, for whom he obtained pardon. St.
Agericus died in 588, it is said of a broken heart because he had
failed to save Bertefroi. He was buried in the church of SS Andrew and
Martin which he had built at Verdun. Here an abbey was established
early in the 11th century and dedicated in his honour.

Besides the information furnished by St. Gregory of Tours and St.
Venantius Fortunatus, Hugh of Flavigny in his chronicle has gathered
up the data scattered in these same sources and produced some sort of
biography (see Migne, PL., vol. cliv, cc. 126-131). Two Latin lives of
late date are printed in the Bollandist Catalogus cod. hagiog. Lat.
Bib. Nat. Paris, vol. i, pp. 479-482 and vol. iii, pp. 78-92....


Saint Quote:
But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The
faithful know and receive the Body of Christ if they labor to be the
body of Christ; and they become the body of Christ if they study to
live by the Spirit of Christ: for that which lives by the Spirit of
Christ is the body of Christ.
--St. Augustine

Bible Quote:
Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from
henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.=C2  (Luke 1:48)


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The Holy Spirit

=C2  =C2 A single heart and soul in all who believe Scripture says that
God's love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit he has
given us. The Holy Spirit, who is the one Spirit of the Father and the
Son, produces in those to whom he gives the grace of divine adoption
the same effect as he produced among those whom the Acts of the
Apostles describes as having received the Holy Spirit. We are told
that the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul,
because the one Spirit of the Father and the Son, who with the Father
and the Son is one God, had created a single heart and soul in all
those who believed.
=C2  =C2 God makes the Church itself a sacrifice pleasing in his sight =
by
preserving within it the love which his Holy Spirit has poured out.
Thus the grace of that spiritual love is always available to us,
enabling us continually to offer ourselves to God as a living
sacrifice, holy and pleasing to him for ever.
--Fulgentius of Ruspe:

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