John the Hermit

ON ST. JOHN THE HERMIT, OF RUSELLO IN ABRUZZO OF ITALY,

John the hermit of Rusello in Abruzzo of Italy (St.)

J. P.

Ferrari in the Catalogue of the Saints

of Italy thus praises him at

this day: John the hermit

of Rusello, a village of Hither Abruzzo,

of the diocese of Trivento, among whom

he is reported to have led a solitary life

and to have shone with miracles, has veneration

on this day: whose body is kept there.

But in the Catalogue of the Saints who are not in

the Roman Martyrology he thus announces him again: At Rusello

in Abruzzo, of St. John the hermit.

But in the notes he confirms the matter from his

Ms. Life, which is kept in the church of Rusello, a village of Abruzzo,

of the diocese of Trivento, where he rests and

has veneration. Castellan in

his universal Martyrology also relates him

in this manner: In the diocese of Trivento, on the borders of Abruzzo

and of the County of Molise, St. John of Rusello,

a solitary. I have sought in vain among us a copy of the Life

mentioned above by Ferrari: yet upon the credit

of that same hagiologist asserting that this Hermit

is honored, I have thought a place should be given him in our Work

among the other heavenly ones of the present day,

even though from elsewhere he is utterly unknown to me.