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Saint Venantius Fortunatus
Popular devotion December 14Bishop and poet

Saint Venantius Fortunatus

Italian poet who became bishop of Poitiers and wrote the great hymns of the Cross still sung in Holy Week.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Venantius Fortunatus Reading His Poems to Radegonda VI, 1862 · Dordrechts Museum (public domain)

Who was Saint Venantius Fortunatus?

Venantius Fortunatus was born around 530 near Treviso, Italy, and studied in Ravenna. After his eyes were healed, he believed through the intercession of Saint Martin, he traveled to Martin's tomb at Tours in thanksgiving and settled in Gaul. In Poitiers he became a friend and adviser of Saint Radegund and her nuns, and when a relic of the True Cross arrived there in 569 he wrote the hymns "Vexilla Regis" and "Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis." He was ordained a priest and, around 600, became bishop of Poitiers, dying in the early 7th century.

Feast day and traditions

His hymns are still sung in the Church's liturgy during Lent and Holy Week, especially on Good Friday. He also wrote poems and lives of the saints of Gaul.

Prayer

Saint Venantius, singer of the Cross, help us praise Christ with our voices and our lives. Amen.

Novena

To pray a novena that ends on the eve of the feast, begin on December 5 and finish on December 13.

Mass readings

Read the Mass readings for December 14 from the US bishops (USCCB).

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Celebrate as a family

Sing a favorite hymn together after dinner, or write a short poem of thanks to God as a family.

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