....is the day on which is commemorated John Chrysostom (Orthodox calendar) and Frances Xavier Cabrini (Roman Catholic calendar). What you may not know is that Orthodox and Catholic calendars today both commemorate Britius (Brice) of Tours (444), about whom you can learn more at the website for Brize Norton parish in England. An excerpt:
In reading Holy Scripture and the lives of the saints, we are reminded of how often God takes sinful, fallen men whose lives have been anything but exemplary and, through his merciful kindness, brings them to repentance and change of heart so that others may revere them and look to them for help toward sanctification. The thief on the cross, through his penitent cry to our Lord Jesus Christ, “Remember me in your kingdom” was forgiven by God, admitted to Paradise, and is known to us as St. Dismas. The militant enemy of the Church, Saul of Tarsus, was so converted by a vision of the risen Christ that he became St. Paul, the great missionary and teacher. For some, such as St. Britius of Tours, this transformation of life came gradually through many years, and sometimes through suffering great penance.
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