#saintclement

Happy Feast Day

Pope St. Clement I of Rome

35-99

Feast Day: November 23

Patronage: stonecutters, marble-workers, mariners, sailors, tanners, sick children

Saint Clement was an early successor to St. Peter, installed as Pope in the year 88 and one of the 5 Apostolic Fathers, who provide a direct link between the Apostles and later generations of the church fathers. He’s a contemporary of St. Paul and is mentioned in Philippians 4:3. St. Clement's First Epistle to the Corinthians, condemned the unauthorized and unjustified division between the laity and clergy, urging charity to heal this riff. It’s said that he was miraculously saved from martyrdom when he was cast in the sea with an anchor bound to him.battle with the disease.

Pope St. Clement I of Rome 

35-99

Feast Day: November 23

Patronage: stonecutters, marble-workers, mariners, sailors, tanners, sick children

Saint Clement was an early successor to St. Peter, installed as Pope in the year 88 and one of the 5 Apostolic Fathers, who provide a direct link between the Apostles and later generations of the church fathers. He’s a contemporary of St. Paul and is mentioned in Philippians 4:3. St. Clement's  First Epistle to the Corinthians, condemned the unauthorized and unjustified division between the laity and clergy, urging charity to heal this riff. It’s said that he was miraculously saved from martyrdom when he was cast in the sea with an anchor bound to him.

Saint Columban (Columbanus)

c.543 - 615

Feast Day: November 23

Patronage: motorcyclists, Columban Missionaries, Derry, Ireland

Saint Columban was Ireland's great missionary to Europe. He was classicly taught, lived as a hermit monk, and after 12 years in seclusion and prayer, traveled to Europe with 12 companions to preach the faith.  He established many monasteries, the greatest being Bobbio Abbey which adhered to a disciplined, austere religious life. Columban wrote treatises on penance, poetry, the monastic rule and against Arianism.  He died at Bobbio Abbey.

Saint Clément

Ça va être court pour notre saint du jour, un pape romain du 1er siècle, parce que clairement on ne sait pas trop trop trier le vrai du faux de la légende de sa vie. On vous a gardé l'essentiel, pas le temps pour les controverses historiques.

Ce qu'on sait c'est qu'il était le 4ème pape après saint Pierre mais l'église catho n'était pas vraiment bien installée à l'époque, et on a trouvé qu'il avait une trop grande influence sur le pouvoir italien. Du coup hop, il s'est fait exiler manu militari en Crimée.

Pour être sûr qu'il passe un bon moment on l'a mis aux travaux forcé dans une carrière de marbre et on a fini par l'achever en le jetant à la mer avec une ancre autour du cou. Radical.

Plus tard des papes ont ramené ses reliques à Rome où il a sa petite basilique, construite là où était sa maison.