2021-03-01 15:37:13
Today is Saint Rudesind, Rosendo.
"Heaven, however, had in store for him, not one but many occasions with which Rosendo was to demonstrate the greatness of his heart for great enterprises, contemplating with pain the outrages committed by the Normans, Rosendo rises with his people, and invoking the Lord of the armies with confidence, he launches himself after the pirates, whom he defeats and puts to shameful flight.
Count Gonzalo Sanchez, moved by God, seconded the bravery of Saint Rosendo and together they ended up destroying them, burning the whole army and putting most of them to the sword, including their king Gunderado.
At that unfortunate time, the Saracens also entered through Portugal almost at the same time as the Normans, cutting everything down with blood and fire like another Attila, and, at once, our leader Saint Rosendo launched himself against them and did not cease to harass them tenaciously until he made them take refuge well inside his dominions. Pope Celestine III confirms these feats in the Bull of the cult of Saint Rosendo... He freed the Portuguese lands with the help of the divine grace from the Saracen irruption...
Rosendo returned to Compostela laden with the laurels of a double victory that won him the applause and support of all his compatriots. He only longs to bury himself in the retreat of the cloister, leaving the government of the Church of Compostela which, according to his own confession attested in a document from León, he had governed by delegation, and in his beloved Celanova he gave up his spirit on the 1st of March 967. Defend your double patriotic and national descent from the enemies' attacks, with the same energy that you squandered in your mortal life, to assure them victory and freedom from the tenacious adversaries conspired to lose them. " The Liturgical Year.
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