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SAINT FEAST DAY 19 FEBRUARY: ST CONRAD OF PIACENZA

 

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SAINT CONRAD OF PIACENZA, HERMIT


Saint Conrad of Piacenza was a hermit of the Third Order of Saint Francis. He belonged to one of the noblest families of Piacenza, and having married when he was quite young, led a virtuous and God-fearing life. 

On one occasion, when he was engaged in his usual pastime of hunting, he ordered his attendants to fire some brushwood in which game had taken refuge. The prevailing wind caused the flames to spread rapidly, and the surrounding fields and forest were soon in a state of conflagration. 

ST CONRAD WAS STRICKEN WITH REMORSE

A mendicant, who happened to be found near the place where the fire had originated, was accused of being the author. He was imprisoned, tried, and condemned to death. As the poor man was being led to execution, Conrad, stricken with remorse, made open confession of his guilt; and in order to repair the damage of which he had been the cause, was obliged to sell all his possessions. 

HE GAVE UP ALL HIS POSESSIONS

Thus reduced to poverty, Conrad retired to a lonely hermitage some distance from Piacenza, while his wife entered the Order of Poor Clares. Later he went to Rome, and thence to Sicily, where for thirty years he lived a most austere and penitential life and worked numerous miracles. He died at Noto in Sicily on February 19, 1351 He is especially invoked for the cure of hernia. 

In 1515 Leo X permitted the town of Noto to celebrate his feast, which permission was later extended by Urban VIII to the whole Order of Saint Francis. Though bearing the title of saint, Conrad was never formally canonised. His feast is kept in the Franciscan Order on February 19. 

(Information from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Conrad may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.





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