Memorial of Saints (September 24)

Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints

• Our Lady of Ransom;
• Geremarus or Germer, abbot;
• Gerard of Canaad, bishop and martyr;
• Pacifico of San Severino

St. Geremarus or Germer (d. ca. 658 A.D.) was a Frankish nobleman from Beauvais, France. He married Domana and had three children. Their two daughters died. When their son Amalbert was grown, Geremarus and Domana decided to enter religious life. Geremarus soon became abbot at Pentale monastery. When an attempt on his life was made because of the strictness of his rule, he left and became a hermit. In 655 A.D., when his son Amalbert died, Geremarus used whatever was left of his estate to build a monastery at Flay, of which he was abbot until his death.