ON BLESSED EUSEBIUS, MONK OF ST. GALL, MARTYR.
Year 884.
CommentaryEusebius, monk of St. Gall, Martyr in Switzerland (Bl.)
From various sources.
[1] The noble monastery and town of St. Gall in Switzerland, of which we shall treat more fully in the Life of St. Gall on October 16. Here the memory of Blessed Eusebius, monk and Martyr, is observed on the day before the Kalends of February. Feast of Bl. Eusebius, Concerning whom we received the following from the Necrology of that same monastery, through our colleague Daniel Feldner at Constance.
[2] Today the honorable memory of our blessed monk and Martyr Eusebius is observed. He was of Scottish origin, homeland, and embraced the religious life in the monastery of St. Gall. Afterward, inflamed with desire for the solitary life, solitary life, he withdrew to the mountain of St. Victor, where he lived most holily for up to fifty years and advanced so far in sanctity that he foretold many things by the spirit of prophecy. At length, when he reproved the crimes of the local inhabitants with words, martyrdom, one of them cut off his head with a sickle, around the year of Christ 884. But he himself, taking up his severed head in his hands, carried it back to his cell on the mountain, relics. where his relics are now preserved and visited by the devout concourse of pious people.