Sanctulus of Nursia

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Sanctulus of Nursia[1][2][3](6th century)[4] is a priest mentioned[5] by Pope Gregory the Great in his work called Dialogues (Dialogi de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum).[6]

Gregory said of Sanctulus:

Ignorant I am not, that this venerable man Sanctulus could scant read well, and that he knew not the precepts of the law: yet because charity is the fulfilling of the law, by loving God and his neighbour, he kept the whole law: and that which outwardly lacked in knowledge, did inwardly by charity live in his soul.[7]

The feast day of Saint Sanctulus is observed on 15 December in the Catholic Church.[8]

References

  1. 1.Darras, Joseph Epiphane (1888). Histoire générale de l'Eglise depuis la création jusqu'à nos jours. Paris : L. Vivès. p. 318.
  2. 2.D. McCready, William (1989). Signs of Sanctity: Miracles in the Thought of Gregory the Great. Pontifical Inst of Medieval studies. pp. 100, 147. ISBN 088844091X.
  3. 3.Smith, William (1877–1887). A dictionary of Christian biography, literature, sects and doctrines: being a continuation of 'The dictionary of the Bible'. Boston : Little, Brown & Co. p. 584.
  4. 4.Trzeciak, Frances (2020). "Frances Trzeciak, Cult of Saints, E04506: Gregory the Great, in his Dialogues (3.37), describes some miracles of *Sanctulus ..." University of Oxford - The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity.
  5. 5.de Voragine, Jacobus (2012). The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints. Princeton University Press; Reprint edition. pp. 525–526. ISBN 978-0691154077.
  6. 6.St Gregory the Great: Dialogues (Fathers of the Church). The Catholic University of America Press. 2002. ISBN 0813213223.
  7. 7.Pearse, Roger (2004). "Gregory the Great, Dialogues (1911) Book 3. pp. 105-174". Gregory the Great, Dialogues (1911) Book 3. pp. 105-174.
  8. 8.Bollandus, Joannes (2012). Acta Sanctorum: Quotquot Toto Orbe Coluntur, Vel A Catholicis Scriptoribus Celebrantur... Nabu Press. ISBN 978-1279321041.