Saint Rudesind
- Also known as
- Rosendo
- Memorial
- 1 March
- Profile
- Born to the Spanish nobility, son of Count Gutierre de Mendenez.
Relative of Saint Senorina.
Benedictine monk.
Reluctant bishop of Mondonedo, Spain at age 18.
Reforming bishop of Compostela, Spain replacing his corrupt cousin Sisnand.
Led armies against invading Norsemen and Moors.
When Sisnand escaped prison, he attacked Rudesind during Christmas Mass, and threatened to murder him.
Rather than live as a prisoner himself, Rudesind retired from the bishopric.
He founded several monasteries and abbeys, all under strict Benedictine Rule, including Saint John Caveiro and Celanova abbey at Villar; he lived as a humble monk at each of these.
Abbot of Celanova.
Advisor to Church and political leaders.
Reported miracle worker.
Legend says that during prayers at the church San Salvador on Mount Coruba, his mother received the knowledge that her son would be a holy man.
She insisted that the boy be baptized at the church.
It had no font, so one was loaded into a cart and hauled up the mountain.
Halfway up the cart broke down - so the font continued up the hill under its own power.
- Born
- 907 in Galicia, Spain
- Died
- 977 at Celanova, Spain of natural causes
- Canonized
- 1195
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
Lives of the Saints, volume 3, by Sabine Baring-Gould
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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