The Lives of the Saints, Volume 03 (of 16): MarchBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 03 (of 16): March
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Christian saints
"My good friend," answered the maid, "I would gladly refresh you, were
it not that I am under orders. But come home to my master, and he will
give you food and drink of the very best." "I cannot stir from this
place, I am far too ill," said Hymelin; "I pray you let me taste the
cool water. I am consumed with thirst." She looked at the man's ghastly
countenance with fiery spots on the cheek, and was unable to refuse any
longer, so she held her pitcher to his lips; he drank, thanked her, and
she went to her master with the vessel. The curate took the pitcher,
set it to his lips, and drawing it suddenly away, exclaimed, "Thou
hast brought me wine, not water!" And it was so. The water had been
converted into wine. Then she told him all that she had done; and he
ran and brought the wayfarer to his house, and laid him on his bed, and
nursed him till he died. And as the soul of Hymelin fled, the chimes of
the church began to play sweetly in the air, though no man touched the
bells. Hymelin was buried in the parish church of Vissenaeken, where
his body still remains, and every year, on March 10th, attracts a large
concourse of pilgrims.
[Illustration: DECEITFULNESS AND VANITY. Symbolic carving at the Abbey
of S. Denis.]
March 11.
S. GORGO, _M. at Tours_.
S. ALBERTA, _V.M. at Agen_, A.D. 286.
SS. TROPHIMUS AND THALUS, _MM. at Laodicea, circ._ A.D. 300.
S. VINCENT, _Ab., M. at Leon, in Spain, circ._ A.D. 555.
S. CONSTANTINE, _K., Monk and M., in Scotland, circ._ A.D. 576.
S. SOPHRONIUS, _Patr. of Jerusalem_, A.D. 638.
S. VIGILIUS, _B.M. of Auxerre_, A.D. 689.
S. VINDICIAN, _B. of Cambrai and Arras, circ._ A.D. 712.
S. EUTHYMIUS,_ B.M. at Sardis, circ._ A.D. 827.
S. ANGUS OF KELD, _B. and Ab. in Ireland, circ._ A.D. 824.
S. EULOGIUS,_ P.M. at Cordova_, A.D. 859.
S. PETER THE SPANIARD, _H. at Babuco, in the Campagna of Rome_.
S. AURIA, _V. in Spain, circ._ A.D. 1100.
S. GORGO, M.
(DATE UNKNOWN.)
[Gallican Martyrology. Authority:--An account of the Translation of
his relics by an eye-witness in 847, published by Bollandus.]
At Tours, on this day is celebrated the festival of S. Gorgo the
martyr, whose body, found at Rome, on the Appian way, near that of S.
Cecilia, was transported to the great monastery of Tours in 847, and on
the way worked many miracles of healing. The Roman Martyrology names on
the same day another Gorgo, martyr at Antioch, of whom nothing further
is known.
S. ALBERTA, V. M.
(A.D. 286.)
[Venerated at Agen. Authority:--The Agen Breviary.]
Alberta, the sister of S. Faith in blood and religion, and one of the
first martyrs of the Agenois, earned the double crown of virginity
and martyrdom. Her relics, long preserved at Périgueux with those of
S. Phebadas, were translated to the church of Benerque, on the Ariége,
where they are preserved to this day.
S. VINCENT, AB. M.
(ABOUT A.D. 555.)
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