10th SEPTEMBER: ST NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINO
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1. St Nicholas was born at Sant' Angelo, near Fermo, about 1246; he died September 10, 1306.
His parents, Compagnonus de Guarutti and Amata de Guidiani, were pious folk, living
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2. content with a small substance. Nicholas was born in response to prayers, his mother a model of holiness.
He excelled so much in his studies that even before they were over he was made a canon of St Saviour’s church; but hearing a sermon by a hermit of St Augustine
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3. upon the text: "Nolite diligere mundum, nec ea quae sunt in mundo, quia mundus transit et concupiscentia eius", he felt a call to embrace the religious life. He besought the hermit for admittance into his order. His parents gave a joyful consent.
Even before his ordination
4. he was sent to different monasteries of his order as a model of generous striving after perfection. He made his profession before he was nineteen.
After his ordination he preached with wonderful success, notably at Tolentino,
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5. where he spent his last thirty years and gave a discourse nearly every day.
Towards the end diseases tried his patience, but he kept up his mortifications almost to the hour of death.
(Excerpts from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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