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January 15th - Sts. Placid and Maurus

Various traditions have developed about these two saints, but the only valid
historical data available is what we read in the 2nd Dialogues of Pope St.
Gregory the Great. In chapter 3 of the Dialogues, two Roman noblemen brought
their sons to St. Benedict for schooling in the Lord's service.

Euthicius brought his son Maurus and Tertullus, his son Placid. Maurus was
the older boy and had already begun to develop a sense of virtuous living.
Placid was still a young child. In chapter 4, Benedict asks Maurus if he
sees the devil leading a young monk out of the chapel during private prayer
time. After praying for two days the young boy does see him. St. Benedict
then chastises the monk and he returns to prayer.

In chapter 5, St. Benedict takes the young boy Placid up the mountain with
him to a rocky place where they spend a long time praying for some monks who
needed a closer source of water. The following day these monks dug at the
spot where Benedict and Placid had prayed and a stream began to flow.

January 14th - St. Kentigern of Glasgow B (AC)
(also known as Mungo)

Died c. 603-612; Farmer lists feast day as January 13. Most of what we know
about Saint Kentigern mixes fact and fiction, because the only sources date
from the 11th and 12th centuries. Many of the folkloric...

January 11th - Sts. Ethenea and Fidelmia VV (AC)
(also known as Ethna and Fedelma)

Died 433. The story is told that one summer day the little daughters of King
Laoghaire of Connaught, Ethna and Fedelma, who were barely out of childhood
and full of fun, went for their daily bath in a private place near the
palace, a place to which no one ever came so early in the morning. But this
special day they were surprised to hear voices and see tents encamped on the
grassy slope near the pool.
There was a drone of a strange language and every now and again a sweet
voice broke into song and mingled with that of the birds in the nearby woods
and the murmuring of the river. Saint Patrick and his companions, who had
arrived during the night with a message for the King of Connaught, were
praying the Divine Office in Latin. Finally, each group spied the other.

The older princess asked, "Who are you, and where do you come from?"

Patrick hesitated, then said: "We have more important things to tell you
than just our names and where we're from. We know who the one true God is
whom you should adore. . . ."

January 10th - St. Peter Orseolo [Urseolus],

St. Peter Orseolo, born in 928, had an exciting life. Son of a noble and
wealthy family of Venice, at age 20 he commanded the Venetian fleet in a
successful effort to conquer the pirates that infested the Adriatic Sea.

He probably played a role in a revolution that led to the murder of Doge
Peter Candiano IV in 976. During the overthrow, the Doge's Palace was burned
and part of Venice destroyed. Peter Orseolo then was chosen the next Doge of
Venice. He revealed himself to be an energetic, skillful, and indefatigable
administrator. As soon as he accepted the office, he began to rebuild the
edifices damaged by the fire. He rebuilt at his own expense the Doge's
Palace and the Church of St. Mark.

He had a passionate and complex personality. On September 1, 978, he left
Venice secretly and traveled to Roussillon at the foot of the Pyrenees on
the borders of France and Spain, and asked to enter the Abbey of Cuxa as a
monk. Even his wife did not know where he was going.

Under the direction of the Abbot Guarinus, he lived a holy life and
dedicated himself to prayer and penance until he died in 987. Many miracles
were worked at his tomb. His only son became one of the greatest and most
celebrated Doges of Venice.

January 9th - St. Adrian of Canterbury, OSB, Abbot (AC)

Born in Africa; died at Canterbury, England, January 9, 710. Saint Adrian became
abbot at Nerida near Naples, Italy. Upon the death of Saint Deusdedit, the
archbishop of Canterbury (England), Pope Saint Vitalian chose Adrian to replace
the bishop because of his great learning and piety. Adrian seemed to be the
perfect leader for a nation new in its Christianity. Yet Adrian demurred saying
that he was not fitted for such a great dignity. He said that he would find
someone else more suited for the task.

The first substitute was too ill to become archbishop. Again the pope urged the
post on Adrian. Again Adrian begged permission to find someone else. At that
time a Greek monk from Tarsus named Theodore was in Rome. Adrian nominated
Theodore to the pope. Theodore was willing to become archbishop of Canterbury,
but only if Adrian agreed to come to England and help him. Adrian readily
consented to this compromise. It was agreed that Adrian would accompany Theodore
to England as his assistant and adviser. On March 26, 668, Theodore was
consecrated archbishop of Canterbury and two months later the two set sail for
England.

January 7th - St. Canute Lavard, Martyr
(also known as Knud)

Born at Roskilde, c. 1096; died 1131; canonized in 1169; feast of the
translation of his relics is July 25 in Denmark.

Nephew of King Saint Canute of Denmark and the second son of King Eric the
Good of Denmark, Canute spent part of his youth at the Saxon court. When he
came of age and returned to Denmark with ideals of feudalism and military
organization, his uncle King Niels (Nils) of Denmark made him duke of
southern Jutland. Canute ruled from Schleswig, which he fortified, and
defended the whole territory against the Wends. In fact, most of his life
was spent fighting against the viking pirates, but he finally brought peace
and order to the territory. Canute also encouraged and aided the missionary
activities of Saint Vicelin, evangelizer of the Wends, who was afterwards
bishop of Staargard, now Oldenburg.

While duke of Schleswig, Canute was recognized by Emperor Lothair III in
1129 as sovereign over the western Wends. This infuriated his uncle, King
Niels, who began to regard Canute as a rival. Two years later, this jealousy
led to Canute's murder in an ambush by Magnus Nielssen and Henry Skadelaar
(his cousins) in the forest of Haraldsted near Ringsted in Zealand.

January 5th - St. Simeon Stylites

Stylites comes from the Greek word stylos, which means pillar, or column. It
was on top of a pillar that St. Simeon spent the largest part of his
extraordinary life.

Simeon was born at Sisan near the northern border of Syria and began life as
a shepherd boy for his father's flock of sheep. When he was just
13-years-old, he heard the Gospel passage: "Blessed are they that mourn;
blessed are the clean of heart." He went to a wise old man and asked him the
meaning of these words. He explained to the boy that eternal happiness can
only be achieved with suffering, and that solitude is the most secure way to
attain it. Impressed with this explanation, the young man joined some
hermits who lived in a nearby monastery.

After some years in different monasteries, however, he retired to live alone
and avoid the numerous visitors who were constantly seeking him out. He
determined to take up his abode on the top of a pillar. There he remained
most of the time standing, exposed to inclement weather, and absorbed in
continuous prayer. He died in 459 at age 69, having lived 36 years of his
life on the top of different pillars.

Comments of late Prof. Plinio Corr

January 1st - St. Odilo of Cluny, OSB, Abbot (RM)

Born in Auvergne, France, c. 962; died at Souvigny, c. 1049. Saint Odilo was
a scion of the very aristocratic French family of Mercoeur. He joined the
monastery of Cluny when he was still very young. About 991, the abbot, Saint
Mayeul, named him coadjutor. Upon the Mayeul's death in 994, Odilo became
Cluny's fifth abbot.

During his 54 years in office he brought the other Cluniac houses into
closer and closer dependence upon the mother house, and increased the number
of foundations from 37 to 65. Among his general activities was the support
he gave to Abbot Richard of Saint-Vanne for the acceptance in France of the
institution called the Truce of God (Treuga Dei), whereby military
hostilities were regularly suspended at certain times (Fridays through
Mondays, Advent, and Lent). This measure had economic as well as religious
and social significance and also guaranteed sanctuary to those seeking
refuge in a church. Odilo also effectively promoted the Pactum Dei, whereby
ecclesiastical persons and property were protected against attack in war.