Saint Conrad of Piacenza Feb 19 breski1 | February 19, 2008 Saint Conrad (1290 – February 19, 1351) was a noble-born Piacenzan hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis.More
Saint Conrad of Piacenza Feb 19
breski1 | February 19, 2008 Saint Conrad (1290 – February 19, 1351) was a noble-born Piacenzan hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis.
breski1 | February 19, 2008 Saint Conrad (1290 – February 19, 1351) was a noble-born Piacenzan hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis.
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Saint Conrad (1290 – February 19, 1351) was a noble-born Piacenzan hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis.
[edit] Biography
Conrad's date of birth is uncertain. He belonged to one of the noblest families of Piacenza, and having married when he was quite young, led a virtuous and God-fearing life.
One day, when he was engaged in his usual pastime of hunting, he ordered his attendants to set fire …More
Saint Conrad (1290 – February 19, 1351) was a noble-born Piacenzan hermit of the Third Order of St. Francis.
[edit] Biography
Conrad's date of birth is uncertain. He belonged to one of the noblest families of Piacenza, and having married when he was quite young, led a virtuous and God-fearing life.
One day, when he was engaged in his usual pastime of hunting, he ordered his attendants to set fire to some brushwood in which game had taken refuge. The prevailing wind caused the flames to spread rapidly, and the surrounding fields and forest were soon in a state of conflagration. A peasant who happened to be found near the place where the fire had originated, was accused of being the author of the blaze. He was imprisoned, tortured to confess and condemned to death. As the poor man was being led to execution, Conrad, stricken with remorse, made an open confession of his guilt; and in order to repair the damage he had caused, was obliged to sell all his possessions.
Thus reduced to poverty, and seeking penance for his act of cowardice, Conrad and his wife saw the hand of God in this event. As a result, they agreed to separate and Conrad retired to a hermitage some distance from Piacenza, joining a community of hermits, who were Franciscan tertiaries, while his wife became a nun of the Order of Poor Clares.
Later he went to Rome, and thence to Sicily, where for thirty years he lived a most austere and penitential life, and worked numerous miracles, until he died at Noto on February 19, 1351, while kneeling before a crucifix. He was canonized in 1625 and his liturgical feast day is celebrated in the Franciscan Order on the day of his death.
[edit] Veneration
Saint Conrad is especially invoked for the cure of hernia. In the year 1515, Pope Leo X permitted the town of Noto to celebrate his feast. Later permission was granted by Pope Urban VIII for his feast to be celebrated throughout the whole Order of St Francis. In Vietnam there is a popular devotion to St Conrad.
[edit] External links
Catholic Encyclopedia: "St. Conrad of Piacenza"
Saints.Spqn.com
Saint of the Day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_of_Piacenza
[edit] Biography
Conrad's date of birth is uncertain. He belonged to one of the noblest families of Piacenza, and having married when he was quite young, led a virtuous and God-fearing life.
One day, when he was engaged in his usual pastime of hunting, he ordered his attendants to set fire to some brushwood in which game had taken refuge. The prevailing wind caused the flames to spread rapidly, and the surrounding fields and forest were soon in a state of conflagration. A peasant who happened to be found near the place where the fire had originated, was accused of being the author of the blaze. He was imprisoned, tortured to confess and condemned to death. As the poor man was being led to execution, Conrad, stricken with remorse, made an open confession of his guilt; and in order to repair the damage he had caused, was obliged to sell all his possessions.
Thus reduced to poverty, and seeking penance for his act of cowardice, Conrad and his wife saw the hand of God in this event. As a result, they agreed to separate and Conrad retired to a hermitage some distance from Piacenza, joining a community of hermits, who were Franciscan tertiaries, while his wife became a nun of the Order of Poor Clares.
Later he went to Rome, and thence to Sicily, where for thirty years he lived a most austere and penitential life, and worked numerous miracles, until he died at Noto on February 19, 1351, while kneeling before a crucifix. He was canonized in 1625 and his liturgical feast day is celebrated in the Franciscan Order on the day of his death.
[edit] Veneration
Saint Conrad is especially invoked for the cure of hernia. In the year 1515, Pope Leo X permitted the town of Noto to celebrate his feast. Later permission was granted by Pope Urban VIII for his feast to be celebrated throughout the whole Order of St Francis. In Vietnam there is a popular devotion to St Conrad.
[edit] External links
Catholic Encyclopedia: "St. Conrad of Piacenza"
Saints.Spqn.com
Saint of the Day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_of_Piacenza