October
8Saints of the Day...and Events
October
8
Saints of the Day...and Events
In obedience to her father, she was married to Prince Ulpho of Sweden. Saint Bridget became the mother of eight children, four boys and four girls, one of whom, Saint Catherine of Sweden, is honored as a Saint. Their four sons died young, two during one of the crusades.
After some years she and her husband separated by mutual consent; he entered the Cistercian Order, where he died thirty years before his holy spouse.
After his death, her life became still more austere; for her guide she had a celebrated Doctor of Theology, a Canon of the cathedral of Linkoeping. Severe for herself, Saint Bridget remained gentle for the poor and nourished twelve persons every day, serving them herself; she established hospices for the sick and the convalescent. She founded the Order of the Most Holy Saviour (Bridgettines), for sixty nuns, at the Abbey of Wastein or Wadstena in Sweden. She joined the Franciscan tertiary. Cistercian. Mystic, visionary, and mystical writer. She recorded the revelations given her in her visions, and these became hugely popular in the Middle Ages.
Saint Bridget received a series of sublime revelations, all of which she scrupulously submitted to the judgment of her confessor. During a famous pilgrimage which she made to Rome at the command of her Lord, He dictated to her the “Fifteen Prayers of Saint Bridget,” in honor of His Passion. The Fifteen Prayers of...
Saint Bridget also went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land with her daughter, Saint Catherine, and amid the very scenes of the Passion was further instructed in the sacred mysteries. She died in Rome, after her return from this pilgrimage, in 1373.
St. Pelagia
The Actress of Antioch who became a hermitess, "the beardless monk"
Pelagia, more often called Margaret, on account of the magnificence of the
pearls for which she had so often sold herself, was an actress of Antioch,
equally celebrated for her beauty, her wealth and the disorder ofher life.
During a synod at Antioch, she passed Bishop St. Nonnus of
Edessa, who was struck with her beauty; the next day she went to hear him
preach and was so moved by his sermon that she asked him to baptize her which he
did. She gave her wealth to Nonnus to aid the poor and left Antioch dressed in
men's clothing. She became a hermitess in a cave on Mount of Olivette in
Jerusalem, where she lived in great austerity, performing penances and known as
"the beardless monk" until her sex was discovered at her death. Though a young
girl of fifteen did exist and suffer martyrdom at Antioch in the fourth century,
the story heretold is a pious fiction, which gave rise to a whole set of similar
stories under different names. Her feast day is October 8th.
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=811
http://www.gvanv.com/compass/arch/v1404/saint.html
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