Saints celebrated on the 18th of June
SAINT AMAND, BISHOP OF BORDEAUX
We read in Saint Paulinus of Nola that St Amand served God from his infancy; that he was educated in the knowledge of the scriptures, and that he preserved his innocence from those stains which are generally contracted in the commerce of the world.
HE INSTRUCTED ST PAULINUS
Being ordained priest by St Delphin, bishop of Bordeaux, who employed him in his church, he manifested great zeal for the glory of God. It was he who instructed St Paulinus in the mysteries of faith, to prepare him for baptism. From this time there subsisted between them a friendship.
MANY LETTERS
Paulinus wrote him many letters, and we see by those that remain of them that he paid the greatest veneration to Amand’s virtue. After the death of St Delphin, St Amand was elected to the see of Bourdeaux, but shortly after resigned the dignity in favour of St Severinus, upon whose death he was again prevailed upon to reassume it.
A ZEALOUS GUARDIAN OF THE FAITH OF CHRIST
St Paulinus tells us that he always conducted himself as a zealous guardian of religion, and of the faith of Christ. He is mentioned this day in the Roman Martyrology. The precise year of his death is not known. It is to him we are indebted for the preservation of the writings of St Paulinus, who died in the year 431.
From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints
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