Saints celebrated on the 22 May
SAINT BOBO, CONFESSOR
Saint Bobo was a gentleman of Provence and a great soldier, the father of the poor, and protector of his country against the Saracens, whom he often defeated when they poured into Provence by sea from Spain and Africa.
A PILGRIMAGE TO ROME
He afterwards led a penitential contemplative life for many years; and being on a pilgrimage to Rome, died at Voghera, near Pavia, in 985.
HE IS VENERATED IN PROVENCE
His name is in great veneration in Provence, and his festival a holiday of precept in most cities in Lombardy. See his exact life in the Acta Sanctorum.
From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints
PRAYER:
May the intercession of the blessed Bobo commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. 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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