SAINT JOSEPH, ABBOT - 18 OCTOBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER

Saints celebrated on the 18th of October

SAINT JOSEPH, ABBOT

On October 18, Joseph's name is entered in the handwritten book of the dead (necrologium) of the first abbots of the Casulae monastery he founded in 1099, with the addition that on October 18, 1127 his mortal remains were raised from the grave and placed in a special container, as well as that he died on September 4, 1125 and that a later translation took place on July 16, 1198. 

Incidentally, this monastery S. Nicolai Casularum (τῶν Kασονλων) was not, as the Bollandist Papebroch* states in the Life of the Hymnographer Josephus on April 4 (I. 286. no. 11), the one in Constantinople where this hymnographer had stayed for a long time (St Joseph, Hymnographer). Where the monastery in question is located is not specified in the article about our holy abbot and founder Joseph.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

PRAYER:

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