January 23
Bernard
Bishop
Practical advice
In the midst of your ordinary work, be grateful for the good received through the sacraments, remembering that holiness is built in the ordinary.
Biography
(777-842) Archbishop of Vienne, France, a good and pious man, he was involved in Charlemagne's succession conflicts, in which he did not prove to be a great diplomat. He resigned after thirty years in the episcopate, and died peacefully in the abbey of Romans-sur-Isère, founded by him.
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