Saint of the Day – 24 March – Saint Bernulf (9th/10th Century) Bishop and Martyr of Mondovi, Piedmont, Italy. We have no certainty about the life of our Saint today but tradition believes that he was the said Bishop and also that he had received the Crown of Martyrdom. Also known as – Bernolfo.
Sources relating to the life of St Bernulf, the Bishop of the Piedmontese Diocese of Mondovì, are very scarce.
In 1514, during the Consecration of the Cathedral’s High Altar, Bishop Lorenzo Fieschi recounts placing there the Relics of St Donatus, to whom the Cathedral was dedicated and also of St Bernulf, the martyr.
The tradition declares Bernulf the Bishop of the City, killed during one of the many Saracen raids which occurred in south-western Piedmont during the 9th and 10th Centuries. The cult dedicated to St Bernulf was centered at a Chapel erected in the locality of Priola, near the Casina Saracina, not far from Mondovì. This Chapel erected on the presumed site of Bernolfo’s Martyrdom, contained a painting, perhaps from the 13th Century, depicting his death by flaying and a wooden Statue in Bishop’s Vestments was also venerated there.
The Chapel which a noble family from Mondovì had built in his honour no longer exists but a silver Reliquary believed to contain his head is still venerated in the Cathedral.
Based on this scant information, it is not easy to reconstruct Bernulf’s true biography, nor to establish, with greater precision, the time and circumstances of his Martyrdom.
The Archangel Saint Gabriel The Feast of Saint Gabriel was included by Pope Benedict XV in the General Roman Calendar in 1921, for celebration on 24 March. The Archangel Saint Gabriel’s name means “the Power of God” He appeared to the Prophet Daniel (Dan 8:16; 9:21), to the priest Zachary to announce the forthcoming birth of Saint John the Baptist (Luke 1:11, 19) and, most importantly, to the Blessed Virgin Mary to announce the birth of Our Saviour (Luke 1:26). St Gabriel! https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/24/saint-of-the-day-24-march-the-archangel-saint-gabriel/
St Agapitus (Died 3rd Century) Bishop of Synnada, Phrygia, in Asia Minor. Its site is now occupied by the modern Turkish Town of Suhut. We have no further information on the life of St Agapitus..
St Latinus of Brescia St Macartan of Clogher St Mark of Rome St Pigmenius of Rome St Romulus of North Africa St Secundus of North Africa St Seleucus Confessor of Syria – No other information has survived.
Martyrs of Africa – 9 Saints: A group of Christians murdered for their faith in Africa, date unknown. The only details about their that survive are the names – Aprilis, Autus, Catula, Coliondola, Joseph, Rogatus, Salitor, Saturninus and Victorinus. .
Martyrs of Caesarea – 6 Saints: A group of Christians Martyred together in the persecutions of Diocletian. We know little else but six of their names – Agapius, Alexander, Dionysius, Pausis, Romulus and Timolaus. They were martyred by beheading in 303 at Caesarea, Palestine.
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