Saints celebrated on the 25th of June
SAINT WILLIAM OF MONTEVERGINE
Saint William, having lost his father and mother as a child, was brought up by his friends in great sentiments of piety.
At fifteen years of age, out of an earnest desire to lead a penitential life, he left Piedmont, his native country, made an austere pilgrimage to St James' in Galicia, and afterward retired into the kingdom of Naples, where he chose for his abode a desert mountain, and lived in perpetual contemplation and the exercises of most rigorous penitential austerities.
HE SETTLED IN MONTEVERGINE
Finding himself discovered and his contemplation interrupted, he changed his habitation and settled in a place called Montevergine, situated between Nola and Benevento, in the same kingdom; but his reputation followed him, and he was obliged by two neighbouring priests to permit certain fervent persons to live with him and to imitate his ascetic practices.
Thus, in 1119, was laid the foundation of the religious congregation called Montevergine. The Saint died on June 25, 1142.
From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 The Sanctuary of Montevergine
PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint William 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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