Another catholidorkerrific idea from Yours Truly! 🙂

I was looking at that nice, big Christian dictionary on my shelf and thought about what a shame it was that I didn’t pull it out more often. Then, I was struck with an idea! I had been toying with the concept of reading it from cover to cover, but really, what is the fun in that if you cannot share your findings with friends? So I thought that I would bless you nice folk with the fruits of my reading and select a “word of the day” — something that piques my interest or an entry with which I was previously unfamiliar. I won’t recreate the entire entry, but just lay out some basics.

Let’s get started! 🙂

St. Abbo

• c. 945 – 1004
• Abbot of Fleury, France
• Helped in the restoration of monasticism in England
• Notable works:  Passio S. Eadmundi and Quaestiones Grammaticales
• Supported the Cluniac Reform, was an ardent defender of Papal authority and the freedom of monasteries from episcopal and secular interference
• He was killed in a revolt occasioned by the reform of a priory
• He also wrote on logic, math, astronomy and the lives of the Popes
• Feast day:  13 Nov