Monday, November 18, 2019

SAINT RAMIRUS AND COMPANIONS

St. Ramirus and Companions

Feast day: March 13
Death: 6th century

Died  554 or  630.
Martyrs of Spain. Ramirus served as prior of St. Claudus Monastety in Leon, Spain. The community was set upon by the Visigoths who, as Arians, opposed orthodox Christianity. The abbot, St Vincent, was put to death, followed two days  after the martyrdom of his abbot, Saint Vincent, by the Arian Visigoths, Saint Ramirus, the prior of Saint Claudius Abbey in Léon, Spain, and all his monks were massacred while chanting the Nicene Creed in the choir of the abbey church

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