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18th JULY: ST ARNULF

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1. St Arnulf (Arnoul, Arnulph, Arnold), having been educated in learning and piety, was called to the court of King Theodebert. Having married a noble lady called Doda, he had by her two sons, Clodulf and Ansegisus. He passed
#StArnoulOfMetz #Jul18

2. to the court of King Clotaire, and was consecrated bishop of Metz in 614, and his wife Doda took the religious veil at Triers.

St Arnulf always wore a hair shirt under his garments; he sometimes passed three days without eating, and his usual food was only barley and water.

3. His alms to the poor seemed to exceed all bounds.

In 622 Clotaire II. divided his dominions, and making his son Dagobert king of Austrasia, appointed St Arnulf chief counsellor. St Arnulf was anxious to leave the public business.
#StArnulfOfMetz #history #medievaltwitter

4. Dagobert long refused his consent; but at length, out of a scruple lest he should oppose the call of heaven, granted it.

St Arnulf resigned also his bishopric, and retired into the deserts of Vosge, near the monastery of Remiremont, on the top of a high mountain,
#hermit

5. where a hermitage is at this day standing.

Here St Arnulf laboured daily with fresh fervour to advance in the path of Christian perfection; for the greater progress a person has already made in virtue, the more perfectly does he see how much is yet wanting in him. #virtue

6. Who will pretend to have made equal advances with St Paul towards perfection? yet he was far from ever thinking that he had finished his race.

St Arnulf died in 640. His remains were brought to Metz, and enrich the great abbey which bears his name. The Roman Martyrology

7. mentions him on the 18th of July, on which day the translation of his relics was performed. (Excerpts from Butler's "Lives of the Saints")

#Christian

St Arnulf is the patron saint of anything to do with beer and brewers. #lager #beer #ale #pubs