November 16
Omar (+759)
Abbot
Practical advice
Trusting in the grace of God, prudently fulfill a responsibility that others have entrusted to you with external order and internal recollection.
Biography
Abbot of Saint Gall, Switzerland, was a great friend of the lepers of that territory: at night and secretly he went to take care of them to avoid being reproached. Falsely accused of who knows what crime in front of Pepin the Short, by the thieves of monastic property that Omar opposed, he was exiled to an island in the Rhine, in Aargau, Switzerland, where he died from the mistreatment to which he was subjected.
Example of
PrayerCare for the sickPastoral leadership