Saint’s Stories #10

SAINT VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMENTIANUS FORTUNATUS

A poet and hymn writer, this saint with a long name lived around 530-610 AD.

Saint’s Stories #9

SAINT JULIAN OF NORWICH

Though identified with a boys name, Julian probably wasn’t her real name but she took it from her church in Norwich.

Saint’s Stories #8

SAINT PIRAN

Having failed to write a saint’s story last month due to a holiday to Cornwall, Piran is our 8th saint, the patron saint of Cornwall.

Saint’s Stories! #7

SAINT MOSES THE BLACK

Living 330-405 AD, Moses the Black has one of those testimonies that gets paraded in church mission weeks.

The Rule of Saint Benedict

By Saint Benedict of Nursia

I don’t know how I came across this book, probably a free give away from WEST whilst I was there! I’ve got a 1909 translation with introduction by Abbot Gasquet! You can also read an online 1949 version translated by Rev. Boniface Verheyen, here. It was originally written sometime shortly after 429 AD and has been the most influential Rule and order of monks in the West ever since. The idea of the Rule is that it is basically a rule book for how monks of the Benedectine order were and are to live.

Saint’s Stories! #6

SAINT BASIL THE ELDER

Dying around 341 AD, we know more about his offspring than we do about Basil himself.

Saint’s Stories! #5

SAINT GARMON (Germanus of Auxerre)

A Frenchman, Garmon appeared in the film, King Arthur! He lived 378-448.

Saint’s Stories! #4

SAINT POLYCARP

Perhaps the most famous and earliest Saint I’ll be covering, Polycarp was an Elder in Smyrna and lived around 69-155.