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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Desiderius

WHEN Queen Brunehaut governed the courts of her two sons, Theodebert, king of Austrasia, and Theodoric of Burgundy, this zealous pastor boldly reproved her for her incests and cruelties; but a sermon which he preached before her and Theodoric on chastity, chiefly in the words of St. Paul, procured him the crown of martyrdom; for, in his return home, he was by their order and contrivance murdered by three assassins in a village now called St. Didier de Chalaraine, near the brook of that name in the principality of Dombes, in 612.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints

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Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Monday, February 11, AD 2019 10:14am

Brunehaut/Brunhilde is the great villainess of Gregory of Tours History of the Franks.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Monday, February 11, AD 2019 10:18am

Or was it Fredegund?

Hard to keep the Merovingians straight.

Straight-up Game of Thrones is what it is.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Monday, February 11, AD 2019 10:21am

D—m. I should pitch a popular history of the Merovingians with that.

All the intrigue, murder and incest of GoT, except the only dragon is the sea-monster that begot Merovech.

David WS
David WS
Monday, February 11, AD 2019 10:58am

Any chance Cardinal Dolan will preach a sermon on adultery, abortion and infanticide! with Gov. Cuomo present…..

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