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Icon of St. Romanus, abbot of
Condat
Feast: Feb. 28
St. Romanus was born in about
the year 390 in upper Bugey. At the age of 35 he undertook to live as a
hermit, in prayer and asceticism, in the region of Condat in the Jura
mountains of southeastern France. His younger brother Lupicinus
followed him there. They became leaders of a community of monks which
included St. Eugendus. Romanus and Lupicinus founded several
monasteries. These included Condat Abbey, which was the nucleus of the
later town of S.-Claude, Jura), Lauconne (later S.-Lupicin, as
Lupicinus was buried there), La Balme (Beaume) (later
S.-Romain-de-Roche), where Romanus was buried, and Romainmôtier (Romani
monasterium) in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Romanus was ordained a priest
by St. Hilary of Arles in 444. He reposed in the grace of Christ the
God-Man, in about the year 460. Holy Venerable Romanus, pray to
God for us!
Icon from the Atelier S.-Andre
in France.
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