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   March 13th -  St. Ansovinus, Bishop of Camerino   
      
   St. Ansovinus was born at Camerino in Umbria, but no details of his early   
   life   
   have been preserved. After his ordination to the priesthood he retired into   
   a   
   solitary spot at Castel-Raimondo, near Torcello, where he soon acquired a   
   reputation for sanctity and miracles. It was even believed that when he came   
   to   
   church he crossed the river on his cloak which he cast into the water, and   
   that,   
   when the rays of the sun dazzled him as he was offering the holy sacrifice,   
   he   
   hung the linen purificator in the air and it shaded his eyes. The Emperor   
   Louis   
   the Pious when in Italy chose him as his confessor, and ratified his   
   election to   
   the see of Camerino. The saint, however, had no wish to accept the dignity,   
   and   
   when he did consent it was with the proviso that he should not be expected   
   to   
   provide soldiers for the imperial army. Although such military service was   
   usual   
   in feudal and semi-feudal states, he considered it unsuitable and contrary   
   to   
   the law of the Church.   
      
   Ansovinus proved himself a wise and prudent pastor. Not only was he liberal   
   to   
   the poor, but in seasons of dearth he husbanded all the resources at his   
   command   
   with such sagacity that he was able to relieve the sufferings of the needy.   
   Indeed, it was said that when he had entirely emptied a granary, it was   
   supernaturally refilled. The saint had the gift of healing and was   
   instrumental   
   in curing many sick persons. He was in Rome when he was seized with a form   
   of   
   fever which he and those about him recognized as likely to prove fatal. In   
   spite   
   of the protests of his friends he insisted upon returning home to die   
   amongst   
   his own people. They carried the sick man out to his horse, and when the   
   animal   
   saw him that strange instinct which dumb creatures often possess impelled   
   him to   
   kneel down to enable his master to mount. Ansovinus reached Camerino and was   
   able to give a last blessing and to receive the viaticum before he quietly   
   expired.   
      
   A singular miracle with which he is credited is worth relating, if only to   
   account for the attribute commonly connected with St. Ansovinus. He was on   
   his   
   way to Rome to be consecrated when he and his friends arrived at Narni,   
   where   
   they stayed for refreshment. They called for wine, and the innkeeper brought   
   some. Ansovinus, detecting that it had been watered, remonstrated with the   
   man,   
   who answered rudely that they could take it or leave it-it was all they   
   would   
   get. The saint then asked for cups, but the innkeeper said that he only   
   provided   
   wine and that visitors were expected to bring their own drinking-cups. So   
   St.   
   Ansovinus took off his cape and told the host to pour the wine into the   
   hood. He   
   did so, under protest, and the hood retained the wine, whilst the water with   
   which it had been mixed ran away.   
      
   The life printed in the Acta Sanctorum, March, vol. ii, which purports to   
   have   
   been written by a certain Eginus not less than a century after the death of   
   the   
   saint, is a wordy and unconvincing document consisting mainly of miracles.   
   But   
   the cultus of St. Ansovinus is recognized, and his name is entered in the   
   Roman   
   Martyrology. See also M. Santoni, Culto di Sant' Ansovino (1883).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Nothing is anything more to me; everything is nothing to me, but Jesus:   
   neither   
   things nor persons, neither ideas nor emotions, neither honor nor   
   sufferings.   
   Jesus is for me honor, delight, heart and soul.   
   -- Saint Bernadette of Lourdes   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent   
   me. 17   
   If any man do the will of him; he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be   
   of   
   God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself, seeketh   
   his   
   own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true,   
   and   
   there is no injustice in him. (John 7:16-18)   
      
      
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   From The Passion And Death Of Jesus Christ, by Saint Alphonsus de Liguori:   
      
   My sweet Lord, if others banish Thee, I will not banish Thee. there was once   
   an   
   unhappy time when I ungratefully banished Thee from my soul; but now I set a   
   greater value on being united with Thee than on the possession of all the   
   kingdoms of the earth. Oh my God, who shall ever be able again to separate   
   me   
   from Thy love?   
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)