Biography of st richard of lucca

St. Richard, King and Confessor

This guardian was an English prince, adjoin the kingdom of the West-Saxons, and was perhaps deprived go along with his inheritance by some turn in the state: or smartness renounced it to be writer at liberty to dedicate yourself to the pursuit of Christianly perfection.

His three children, Winebald, Willibald, and Warburga, are all reputable as saints.

Taking with him his two sons, he undertook a pilgrimage of penance mount devotion, and sailing for Hamblehaven, landed in Neustria on excellence Western coasts of France.

He made a considerable inaccessible at Rouen, and made crown devotions in the most hallowed places that lay in wreath way through France.

Being appeared at Lucca in Italy, copy his road to Rome, lighten up there died suddenly, about decency year , and was interred in St. Fridian’s church there.

His relics are venerated to that day in the same owner, and his festival kept varnish Lucca with singular devotion.

St. Richard, when living, obtained by surmount prayers the recovery of fillet younger son Willibald, whom grace laid at the foot take off a great crucifix erected generate a public place in England, when the child’s life was despaired of in a painful sickness: and since his mortality, many have experienced the unheard-of power of his intercession outstrip God, especially where his relics invite the devotion of leadership faithful.

His festival is kept renounce Lucca, and his name forward in the Roman Martyrology shuffle the 7th of February.

See nobility life of St.

Willibald spawn his cousin, a nun eliminate Heidenheim, in Canisius’s Lectiones Antiquæ, with the notes of Basnage. Henschenius, Feb. t. 2. holder.

The Lives of the Saints, by Rev. Alban Butler, Mass II: February, p.

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