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BL. THEOBALD OF ALBA, CONFESSOR - 1 JUNE


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 BLESSED THEOBALD OF ALBA, CONFESSOR

Blessed Theobald, Confessor, is venerated at Alba in Liguria (Alba Pompeia, in the former Duchy of Montferrat, now the Province of Cuneo in Piedmont) on the Tanaro River, and at Mondovì, but especially in his birthplace, Vico (also located in Liguria). His parents are said to have been wealthy; yet, for Christ's sake, he chose the poor and lowly life of a cobbler. With the earnings from his labour, he supported a sickly shoemaker and his family in Alba for several years. Before he died, the master offered him his daughter Verida in marriage; however, the pious cobbler declined the offer because he had taken a vow of perpetual chastity. After the master had died, Theobald bestowed his savings upon the master's widow and then undertook a pilgrimage to Compostela in Spain. He spent the remainder of his life in Alba working as a porter, amidst prayer and acts of penance. He covered his few needs with the earnings from his work and gave whatever remained to the poor. The story - that he once gave a beggar some sand entrusted to him (which he was carrying in a sack) which then miraculously turned into flour - appears to have been just a non-factual legend (Menzel, Symbolik*, II. 290). Blessed Theobald went to his eternal reward in the year 1150. Many miracles occurred at his grave. Depictions show him as a cobbler; he is the patron saint of that trade.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, pp. 449-450)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

PRAYER:

May the intercession of Blessed Theobald commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. 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.

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org



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