Nicholas was bedridden and suffered grievously. Among his hearers could be seen the tears and heard the sighs of people detesting their sins and repenting of their past lives."ĭuring the last years of his life St. "Sweetly he preached the divine word, and the words that came from his lips fell like flames of fire. "He spoke of the things of heaven," says his biographer St. Nicholas saw only one remedy to the violence: street preaching, and the success of this apostolic work was astounding. He spent the last thirty years of his life in Tolentino, where the Guelfs and the Ghibellines were in constant strife. I am only a vessel of clay, a poor sinner." "Say nothing of this," he would insist, "give thanks to God, not to me. His preaching, instructions and work in the confessional brought about numerous conversions, and his many miracles were responsible for more, yet he was careful not to take any credit for these miracles. He was ordained in 1271 and said his first Mass with exceptional fervor thereafter, whenever he celebrated the holy Mystery he seemed aglow with the fire of his love. On account of his kind and gentle manner his superiors entrusted him with the daily feeding of the poor at the monastery gates, but at times he was so free with the friary's provisions that the procurator begged the superior to check his generosity. Already at seven he would hide away in a nearby cave and pray there like the hermits whom he had observed in the mountains.Īs soon as he was old enough he was received into the Order of Augustinian friars. When her wish was granted, she named the boy Nicholas and he soon gave unusual signs of saintliness. Nicholas of Bari to ask for a son whom she promised to dedicate to God's service. Childless and in middle age, she had made a pilgrimage with her husband to the shrine of St. This Nicholas was born in answer to his mother's prayers.
After giving away her wealth to the poor and to the Church, she died peacefully at the age of fifty-four in the year 453. Throughout her life she defended the Faith against various heresies. Pulcheria, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Arcadius (395-408), was coregent and adviser of her brother Theodosius the Younger (408-450). Today is his feast according to the previous liturgical calendar (1962). His whole life was remarkable for its great austerity which was inspired by his great love of the cross. At first he lived at the hermitage of Pesaro and then at Tolentino where he died in 1305. Augustine and decided to enter this newly-founded Order. As a young man, but already endowed with a canon's stall, he was one day greatly affected by a sermon preached by a Hermit of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, a native of Sant' Angelo, in the diocese of Fermo, was born about the year 1245. » Enjoy our Liturgical Seasons series of e-books!
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