A Knight of the First Crusade who retired to a monastery after the Crusade.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Adjutor
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
According to what I saw online, the chain he holds is from his captivity by the Saracens.
He was bound with chains and imprisoned but God delivered him and transported him back to his estate in Vernon, France. He later used the chain to miraculously stop a whirlpool that had been endangering barge traffic on the river, hence his patronage to bargemen etc.
The lives of the saints are one of the greatly neglected treasures of Catholicism. Many quail at the stories because they can’t be “verified.” Our modern demand for indisputable proof is seriously injurious to faith. We must believe the testimony of good men and women if we are to be saved, indeed even if we are to merely live.
We accept that the Starbucks cup holds coffee not poison on the testimony of a single stranger. In our increasingly anonymous society we constantly accept the testimony of people we know nothing about or never met. How sad that we refuse to accept testimony from saints who have loved us far more than our baristas do. (Of course, no offense is meant to any saintly barista whose name is known only in Heaven.)