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  Gerald of Aurillac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerald was born into the Gallo-Roman nobility as the son of the Count of Aurillac, to which title he succeeded.
Saint Gerald, considered by his Church and his followers as a great example of a celibate Christian aristocrat, is the patron saint of counts and bachelors.
University of Kansas Lecture on Gerald of Aurillac
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 17
Saint Landry was the eldest of the saintly children of SS.
Saint Gerald of Aurillac, was a canon of Saint Julian's Church at Brioude.
Saint Stephen, one of the founders of the Cistercians, was an Englishman of unknown parentage.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0417.htm   (3565 words)

  
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Today is the feast day of Saint Odo of Cluny, Abbot, who was the son of Abbo, a nobleman, and brought up in the households of Fulk II, Count of Anjou, and William, Duke of Aquitaine, who founded the abbey of Cluny.
Saint Odo was an intense young man and he arrived at Cluny with his entire library of about 100 books.
Saint Odo's relics were all burned by evil Huguenots during the Protestant Reformation and he is usually depicted stripping himself to clothe the poor.
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 Gerald of Aurillac| Lectures in Medieval History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Gerald managed to avoid this by commending his nephew, Rainald, and a number of Auvergnese fighting men to the Duke's service, and joining the Duke on expeditions himself when it was necessary.
Gerald had gotten the reputation for mercy, and when his men captured a group of bandits, they suspected that Gerald would set them free, and took the precaution of blinding them before they came to trial.
Gerald adopted a compromise, shaving his beard with the complaint that it irritated him, and tonsuring in such a manner that long hair and a cap would hide the shaven spot.
www.ku.edu /kansas/medieval/108/lectures/gerald.html   (2914 words)

  
 Saints' Names (boys F-I) & Their Meanings - Good News Ministries Online
Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen was a lawyer who grew disgusted by the greed, corruption, and lack of interest in justice by his colleagues.
Saint Gregory the Great was the first pope who referred to himself as "the servant of the servants of God," and all the popes since then have used the same title.
Saint Ivo of Kermartin was a lawyer and a priest, often defending the poor for free.
wordbytes.org /saints/names-boys-fi.htm   (1356 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of October 13
Saint Coloman, an Irish or Scottish monk of royal lineage who began a penitential pilgrimage to Jerusalem and was stopped at Stockerau, about six miles from Vienna.
The belief that Edward was a saint was supported by his general reputation for religious devotion and for generosity to the poor and infirm, by the relation of a number of miracles and, too, by the assertion that he and his wife were so ascetic as always to have lived together as brother and sister.
According to legend, as Saint Edward was returning from Mass one day, he gave his ring as an alms to Saint John the Baptist, who appeared to him as a poor pilgrim.
www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1013.htm   (1978 words)

  
 Prayer in time of sickness
He was distinguished for the justice and efficiency with which he discharged the duties of a wealthy nobleman.
Saint Odo of Cluny wrote a Life of Saint Gerald that made him celebrated in medieval France.
A later member of Saint Gerald of Aurillac's family was Saint Robert of Chaise-Dieu (d.
www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/alt.religion/messages/196691.html   (1398 words)

  
 Calendar of saints - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with a saint, and referring to the day as the saint's day of that saint.
Many children acquire baptismal or confirmational names from the saint associated with their date of birth, baptism or confirmation, and believing Eastern Orthodox Christians mark the "name day" of the saint whose name they bear with special attention.
October 29: Saint Colman of Kilmacduagh and Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Feast_day   (1792 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Gerald of Aurillac
Suffered from several illnesses in his youth, and eventually went blind.
Count of Aurillac who, upon his ascension to the position, gave away his possessions and dedicated himself to God and service.
Built a church and abbey on his property.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintg41.htm   (79 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Robert of Chaise-Dieu
Canon of Saint Julian's church at Brioude where he founded a hospice for the poor.
Monk at Cluny under the direction of Saint Odilo.
Retired to Brioude near Auvergne where he attracted so many followers that the great Benedictine abbey of Casa Dei (House of God) or Chaise-Dieu (Chair of God) with 300 monks.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintr88.htm   (54 words)

  
 Saint Georges - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Saint Georges
After the American invasion of 1775 along the Chaudière, the area was settled by the British.
Saint George, UT, USA - St George (Airport Code)
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Saint+Georges   (122 words)

  
 Re: Prayer in time of sickness
When he succeeded his father as count > of Aurillac in Auvergne, and owner of considerable estates, he continued his > life of devotion and became noted for his piety and generosity to the poor.
He is the patron saint of Upper > Auvergne.
A later member of Saint Gerald of Aurillac's family was > Saint Robert of Chaise-Dieu (d.
www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/alt.religion/messages/196696.html   (1528 words)

  
 CONQUES : history of the abbey
In those days the fame of the miracles of Saint Foy was enough to make Conques be selected as a stopping place on one of the four great French routes, the one which started at Puy en Velay.
From Estaing through the villages of Golinhac where a stone cross still bears the picture of a pilgrim armed with his staff, then Espeyrac and Saint Marcel, they were arriving at Conques after a thirty-kilometres walk.
Until then limited to Rouergue and its bordering provinces, the cult of Saint Foy spread in the whole Christendom carried by the pilgrims devotion and, at the beginning of the XIth century, increased by a great literary work, The Book of Miracles of Saint Foy, written by Bernard, the head of the Angers' episcopal college.
www.conques.com /histoire9.htm   (486 words)

  
 hst410-510/index.html
This course examines the spectrum of medieval belief in the relationship between the natural and supernatural worlds by focusing on two of its extreme, though commonly occurring, points of conjuncture: the bodies and persons of “saints” and “deviants”.
Proceeding from the assumption that a culture’s deeply held values and fears—from which stem its sense of corporate identity—are often revealed by those individuals and groups it seeks to lionize or demonize, we will strive to understand the necessity and role of sanctity and deviance within the medieval world, and the inter-relation of the two.
Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1988), chs.
web.pdx.edu /~ott/hst410-510   (1346 words)

  
 Pathways Awareness Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
God, source of all holiness, you have enriched your Church with the gifts of many saints whose lives were touched by disability.
By following the example of our brothers and sisters, may we come to realize that in accepting our vulnerabilities we are drawn closer to You through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Adapted from the Litany of the Saints, English translation of The Roman Missal copyright 1973, ICEL.
www.pathwaysawareness.org /open_IAD_litany.php   (193 words)

  
 Rachel Fulton - The University of Chicago
Thomas F.X. Noble and Thomas Head, eds., Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints’ Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995).
Priscus of Panium, An Embassy to the Court of Attila (449) (Murray, pp.
Odo, Life of Saint Gerald of Aurillac (Noble and Head, pp.
home.uchicago.edu /~rfulton/earlymiddleages.html   (864 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Soldiers of Christ : saints and saints lives from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Find in a Library: Soldiers of Christ : saints and saints lives from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Soldiers of Christ : saints and saints lives from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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 Burr Tillstrom oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
- RC Saints - translation (1163) of Saint Edward the Confessor; memorial of Saint Gerald of Aurillac
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