The lives of the saints . FIESOLI.(about 874.) [Roman Martyrology. Dempsters Scottish Menology. Authority :—A Life published by the BoUandists, late, and of no great authority.] S. Donatus, according to Tuscan traditions, was a Scottish,or rather Irish, pilgrim, who visited the tomb of the apostlesat Rome. On his way home, he arrived at FiesoU when thebishop was dead, and the people and clergy were assembledin the church to elect a successor. As Donatus, a manshort of stature, entered the cathedral, all the bells began <^- —* 576 Lives of the Saints. [Oct. 22. to ring, and every lamp a
The lives of the saints . FIESOLI.(about 874.) [Roman Martyrology. Dempsters Scottish Menology. Authority :—A Life published by the BoUandists, late, and of no great authority.] S. Donatus, according to Tuscan traditions, was a Scottish,or rather Irish, pilgrim, who visited the tomb of the apostlesat Rome. On his way home, he arrived at FiesoU when thebishop was dead, and the people and clergy were assembledin the church to elect a successor. As Donatus, a manshort of stature, entered the cathedral, all the bells began <^- —* 576 Lives of the Saints. [Oct. 22. to ring, and every lamp and candle in the church kindledsupernaturally. The people took this as a sign that thelittle stranger was to be their bishop, and forthwith electedhim. One day after a confirmation, a boy returning to hismother from the church was carried off by a wolf. Sheran shrieking to the bishop, who prayed, and the wolfreturned from the wood into which it had carried the child,and deposited its burden unhurt at the altar *- -* ^ ^ Oct. 23.] ^- Romanus. 577 October 23. SS. Theodota and Socrates, MM. at Nicaa in Biihynia; circ, 230, S. Geatian, M, at Amiejts ; circ, 285. SS. Servandus and Germanus, ilO/. ai Cadiz in Spain; \ih cent,S. Theodore, at Antioch in Syria; Severinus, B. of Cologne; circ. Severinus, B. of Bordeattx ; circ. RoMANUS, B. of Rouen; circ. CoLUMBA, hi Coi-TVwalL See Nov. LuGLius AND LuGDiAN, MM. at Lillers and Monididier in France; end of jth, or beginning of ^tk Oda, W. at Amay near Liige ; Elfleda, VV. at Glastonbury ; -middle of Ignatius, Pair, of Constanti-nople; John Capistran, at Villachin Carintkia; 1456. S. ROMANUS, B. OF ROUEN.(about 639.) [Modem Roman Martyrology. Gallican Martyrologies. Authori-ties :—Four Lives, one metrical, perhaps the most ancient; another byFulbert, archdeacon of Rouen in the nth cent. ; ano
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