Saint Gontran

Saint Gontran

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : King

Saint Gontran

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Gontran: March 28
  • Description / Title of the Saint : King
  • Date of Death: Saint Gontran died 23rd March, 593
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Gontran
The story and history of Saint Gontran. Saint Gontran was the son of King Clotaire, and grandson of Clovis I. and St. Clotildis. Being the second son, whilst his brothers Charibert reigned at Paris, and Sigebert in Ostrasia, residing at Metz, he was crowned king of Orleans and Burgundy in 561, making Chalons his capital. When compelled to take up arms against his ambitious brothers and the Lombards, he made no other use of his victories, under the conduct of a brave general called Mommol, than to give peace to his dominions. The crimes in which the barbarous manners of his nation involved him he effaced by tears of repentance.

The prosperity of his reign, both in peace and war, condemns those who think that human policy cannot be modelled by the maxims of the Gospel, whereas nothing can render a government more flourishing. He always treated the pastors of the Church with respect and veneration. He was the protector of the oppressed, and the tender parent of his subjects. He gave the greatest attention to the care of the sick. He fasted, prayed, wept, and offered himself to God night and day as a victim ready to be sacrificed on the altar of His justice, to avert His indignation which he believed he himself had provoked and drawn down upon his innocent people. He was a severe punisher of crimes in his officers and others, and, by many wholesome regulations, restrained the barbarous licentiousness of his troops; but no man was more ready to forgive offences against his own person. With royal magnificence he built and endowed many churches and monasteries. This good king died on the 23rd of March in 593, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, having reigned thirty-one years and some months.

Feast Day of Saint Gontran
The Feast Day of Saint Gontran is March 28. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Gontran

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Gontran
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Gontran
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Gontran - March 28
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 23rd March, 593
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Gontran
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : King
 
 

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Saint Gontran