The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): FebruaryBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Christian saints
"May God pardon thee, my sister, but what hast thou done?" "Ah, yes,"
she answered him, "I prayed thee, and thou would'st not listen to me;
then I prayed God, and he heard me. Go now, if thou canst, and send me
away, to return to thy monastery." He resigned himself, against his
will, to remain, and they passed the rest of the night in spiritual
converse. S. Gregory, who has preserved the tale to us, adds that it
is not to be wondered at, that God granted the desire of the sister
rather than that of the brother, because, of the two, it was the
sister who loved most, and that those who love most have the greatest
power with God.
In the morning they parted, to see each other no more in this life.
Three days after, Benedict, being at the window of his cell, had a
vision, in which he saw his sister entering heaven under the form of a
dove. Overpowered with joy, his gratitude burst forth in songs and
hymns to the glory of God.
Her body was translated to Le Mans, in France, of which city she is
patroness, but her relics were dispersed by the Huguenots, in 1562.
However, some portions have been preserved, some in the Jesuit Church
at Antwerp, and a bone in the Carthusian Church at Cologne.
S. SURA, V. M.
(DATE UNKNOWN.)
This Saint, called in Dutch, Zuwardt, is said to have built the first
Christian Church at Dordrecht. She was murdered by some ruffians, who
hoped to possess themselves of her money, wherewith she paid for the
edification of the house of God, but found only three pennies in her
purse, whence arose the tradition that she had only that sum the whole
time, and that as often as she paid it away, the same sum remained in
her purse.
S. WILLIAM OF MALEVAL, H.
(A.D. 1157.)
[Roman Martyrology. Authority:--His Life, by his friend and
disciple, Albert, in whose arms he died. Several modern writers have
confused S. William of Maleval with S. William of Mariemont, and
even with S. William I., Duke of Aquitaine, and S. William IX., Duke
of Guienne, who died 1137.]
Nothing is known of the birth of this saint, or of his early life, on
which he preserved an impenetrable secrecy. It is said that he made a
pilgrimage to S. Jago of Compostella, but even this is uncertain, as
S. William of Guienne, his contemporary, is known to have made this
expedition, and it is quite possible that the act of one S. William
has been transferred to the other.
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