POLYDORE, RELIGIOUS AND GARDENER - 5 MARCH

 

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POLYDORE, RELIGIOUS AND GARDENER

Polydore (Polydorus), a lay brother of the Order of the Friars Minor, who was born in Rome and died a godly death in Scarlino in Tuscany about A.D. 1454, is listed among the Praetermissi by the Bollandists*.

Polydore had held the office of mayor of Siena, but renounced this dignity, all honours and riches, in order to do the work of a gardener with the greatest humility and self-denial. Hueber* tells us that Polydore was graced with visions and raptures. (I.359).

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 4, Augsburg, 1875, p. 958)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

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