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SAINT FEAST DAY 27 NOVEMBER: ST VIRGIL


ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER 

Saints celebrated on the 27th of November

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SAINT VIRGIL, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR

Saint Virgil [Vergilius] was born in Ireland, and distinguished at home for his learning and virtue. 

Travelling into France in the reign of King Pepin, he was courteously received by that prince, who kept him two years near his person, till the see of Juvave, since called Salzburg, falling vacant, he recommended him to that bishopric, and wrote in his favour to Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, his friend and brother-in-law.

VIRGIL TREMBLED AT THE PROSPECT

Virgil trembled at the prospect, and, for two years, commissioned Dobda, a bishop whom he had brought with him from Ireland, to perform the episcopal functions, reserving to himself only the office of preaching and instructing, till he was compelled by his colleagues to receive the episcopal consecration in 766. 

HE REBUILT THE ABBEY

He rebuilt magnificently the abbey of St Peter at Salzburg, of which he had been himself for some time abbot, and he translated thither the body of St Rupert founder of that see. This church became afterwards the cathedral. 

St Virgil baptised at Salzburg two successive dukes of Carinthia, Chetmar, and Vetune, and sent thither fourteen preachers under the conduct of Modestus, a bishop who planted the faith in that country. 

VIRGIL SENT FOURTEEN PREACHERS TO PLANT THE FAITH

Having settled the affairs of his own church, he made a visitation of that of Carinthia, as far as the borders of the Huns, where the Drave falls into the Danube. 

Soon after his return home he was taken ill of a slow fever, and, after a fervent preparation, cheerfully departed to our Lord on November 27, 784.

Among the many saints who governed the see of Salzburg, whose lives Canisius has collected, there is none to whom that church and its temporal principality are more indebted than to St Virgil. 

From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints




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