This week, St .Thomas Aquinas and St. John Bosco steal the saintly show, and with good reason: Thomas for his intellect and John for the work he did for children.
We shouldn’t ignore them, but as always when we see famous saints on the calendar, we might also let them inspire us to look at who else, among the less famous of their number, has their
feast day this week.
With that in mind, I turn to St. Julian the Hospitaller. He is one of those saints who may not even be a saint. According to Catholic Saints Info, the story of how a stag prophesied that he would kill his parents, and of the (accidental) killings themselves happened, may be a fiction.
This doesn’t automatically mean that Julian never became a saint or even lived. Maybe the story of his life that we have now is simply a mythologised version of what really happened. Maybe. Whatever the truth of the matter, he is still worth praying to because our prayers, if not picked up, as it were, by St. Julian, will be taken by the Holy Spirit to God the Father, and answered by Him. Let’s keep praying and keep silence as we listen out for His voice!
image: St. Thomas Aquinas (Great Thinkers)
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