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Homeless… it can happen
From the Martyrologium Romanum:
1. Commemoratio sancti Valeriani, episcopi Avensani in Africa, qui, octogenarius amplius, in persecutione vandalica a Genserico rege ariano expetitus, ut Ecclesiae utensilia traderet, cum hoc facere constanter renuisset, extra civitatem singularis iussus est pelli; et cum praeceptum esset, ut nullus eum neque in domo sua neque in agro habitare sineret, diutissime in via publica sub nudo aere iacuit et ita, confessor orthodoxae veritatis, cursum beatae vitae complevit.
Perhaps you readers can add your flawless English versions of this interesting entry for 15 December.
Comment by mpm — 15 December 2009 @ 11:53 amThe commemoration of St. Valerian, bishop of Avenza in Africa. He was over eighty years old when he was pressured to hand over the Church’s precious objects during the Vandals’ persecution by King Genseric [an Arian, btw]. When he strongly refused to do this, he was forced out of the city alone, and it was ordered that no one should allow him to live in a house or in a field. He lived on a highway in the open. Thus, this confessor of the orthodox truth fulfilled the path of his blessed life.
Salutationes omnibus.
Comment by Tom in NY — 15 December 2009 @ 11:54 amWith my scant knowledge of Latin I was only able to tell that this was about Bishop Valerian, and that he was eighty plus years old and had no home. May his reward be great in Heaven. Thank you Fr. Z. for this post, I am humbled to share my birthday with such a great and Holy Saint.
Comment by wanda — 15 December 2009 @ 12:24 pmAnte scribendum cogitandum.
Comment by Tom in NY — 15 December 2009 @ 3:26 pmErratum: “ariano” omittendum. “Lived” ante “lay” metonymia anglica erat; S. Valerianus ne subito gladio exiit.
Mihi apparet MR historias heroicas sanctorum praepositionibus firmat, e. g. “ex-petitus” et “extra…pelli” potius quam “petitus” aut “expelli.”
Salutationes omnibus.
It is very timely for me to learn of St. Valerian’s brush with “the law” here; I will be asking him to intercede for me tomorrow in a bit of adventure I’m facing otherwise on my own.
Sancte Valeriane, intercede pro me in via publica!
Comment by mpm — 15 December 2009 @ 4:37 pmThe commemoration of Saint Valerian, Bishop of Avensanus in Africa, who, at more than eighty years old, was sought out by King Genseric in persecution of the Vandals, that he might hand over the sacred things of the Church, and seeing as he constantly refused to do so, he was ordered to be thrown outside of the city, alone; and when it was ordered, that no one permit him either in their home nor to dwell in their field, he lay for a very long time on the public road under the bare sky and thus, as a confessor of orthodox truth, he completed the course of his blessed life.
Comment by Marius2k4 — 15 December 2009 @ 7:17 pmAck… “by the [Arian] King Genseric”
Comment by Marius2k4 — 15 December 2009 @ 7:27 pm