ST ALDEBRAND, BISHOP OF FOSSOMBRONE

ST ALDEBRAND, BISHOP OF FOSSOMBRONE - 1 MAY

SAINT ALDEBRAND, BISHOP OF FOSSOMBRONE

As a priest in Rimini, Italy, Aldebrand was unafraid to say what his congregation would have preferred not to hear.

On one such occasion, while preaching in the street outside the church, his audience, enraged by his words, rose to kill him.

Aldebrand fled from the city. Scarcely had he left Rimini when, in a strange turn of events, a delegation from the city of Fossombrone came and entreated him to become their bishop.

Aldebrand was consecrated bishop of Fossombrone in 1170. Once, while he was preaching, a flock of swallows that had entered the church began singing so noisily that the people could no longer hear him. Realising this, Aldebrand commanded the birds to be quiet, and they promptly obeyed.

Aldebrand lived to about the age of a hundred. Those attending him in his final illness (in A.D. 1219) hoped to strengthen his failing health by serving him as a meal a partridge. But when Aldebrand saw the dish, he remembered his penitential habit of permanently abstaining from the consumption of any flesh. He thereupon made the sign of the cross over the cooked bird, and the creature came back to life and flew away.

“My soul clings to you, your right hand holds me fast.” (Ps 62:9)

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Aldebrand 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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