BLESSED JOHN, HERMIT - 24 JUNE

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE

Saints celebrated on the 24th of June

BLESSED JOHN, HERMIT

Blessed John led a hermit's life in vallibus Attini and died on June 24, 1550. After his passing, his coffin was transported by a yoke of young cattle which had not ever been used for work (a vitulis indomitis) and brought to the convent of Augustinian hermits in Cassia, Umbria. According to Jacobillus*, the above was to be read under a picture of the blessed in the said monastery. Jacobillus* does not mention anything about public veneration. Also we could not locate the place where Blessed John is said to have spent his hermit's existence.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869, pp. 307-08)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

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PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of the blessed John 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.