TODAY'S SAINT

JUNE 25

ST. PROSPER OF REGGIO, Bishop

This 5th century saint is shrouded in obscurity; beginning with the 9th century he was venerated in the Italian province of Emilia, although he may have been a native of Spain originally. A questionable tradition asserts that St. Prosper distributed all his goods to the poor in order to fulfill our Lord's precept to the rich young man. He became a Bishop and his beneficent episcopate lasted twinty-two years.

On June 25, 466, he passed on to his heavenly reward, surrounded by his priests and deacons, and he was buried in the church of St. Apollinaris, which he had built and consecrated, outside the walls of Reggio. In 703, his relics were transferred to a great new church erected in his honor be Bishop Thomas of Reggio. And fittingly enough he is the principal patron of that city.

PARYER:

God, You made St. Prosper an outstanding

exemplar of Divine love and the Faith that

conquers the world, and added him to the

role of saintly pastors. Grant by his interc-

ession that we may persevere in Faith and

love, and become sharers of his glory. Amen