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February 28/29 Saint Romanus & Saint Oswald of York. Saints Romanus and Lupicinus his brother Founder and Abbots (†460 and †480) Saint Romanus, born in the late fourth century, left his relatives and …More
February 28/29 Saint Romanus & Saint Oswald of York.
Saints Romanus and Lupicinus his brother
Founder and Abbots (†460 and †480) Saint Romanus, born in the late fourth century, left his relatives and spent some time in the monastery of Ainay at Lyons, near a large church at the conflux of the Saône and Rhone. The faithful had built it in honor of the famous martyrs of that region, whose ashes were thrown into the Rhone. His purpose for this retreat was to study all the practices of monastic life, and he obtained from the Abbot of Ainay some recently written books on the lives of the Desert Fathers.
At the age of thirty-five, Romanus retired into the forests of Mount Jura, between France and Switzerland, and fixed his abode at a place called Condate, at the conflux of the rivers Bienne and Aliere, where he found a plot of ground fit for culture, and some trees which furnished him with wild fruit. Here he spent his time in praying, reading, and laboring for his subsistence. Lupicinus, his …More