Saint Simon Stock

Saint Simon Stock

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : Hermit

Saint Simon Stock

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Simon Stock: July 16
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Hermit
  • Date of Death: Saint Simon Stock died 1265
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Simon Stock
The story and history of Saint Simon Stock. Simon was born in the county of Kent, England, and left his home when he was but twelve years of age, to live as a hermit in the hollow trunk of a tree, whence he was known as Simon of the Stock. Here he passed twenty years in penance and prayer, and learned from Our Lady that he was to join an Order not then known in England. He waited in patience till the White Friars came, and then entered the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. His great holiness moved his brethren in the general chapter held at Aylesford, near Rochester, in 1245, to choose him prior-general of the Order. In the many persecutions raised against the new religious, Simon went with filial confidence to the Blessed Mother of God. As he knelt in prayer in the White Friars' convent at Cambridge, on July 16, 1251, she appeared before him and presented him with the scapular, in assurance of her protection. The devotion to the blessed habit spread quickly throughout the Christian world. Pope after Pope enriched it with indulgences, and miracles innumerable put their seal upon its efficacy. The first of them was worked at Winchester on a man dying in despair, who at once asked for the Sacraments, when the scapular was laid upon him by St. Simon Stock. In the year 1636, M. de Guge, a cornet in a cavalry regiment, was mortally wounded at the engagement of Tobin, a bullet having lodged near his heart. He was then in a state of grievous sin, but had time left him to make his confession, and with his own hands wrote his last testament. When this was done, the surgeon probed his wound, and the bullet was found to have driven his scapular into his heart. On its being withdrawn, he presently expired, making profound acts of gratitude to the Blessed Virgin, who had prolonged his life miraculously, and thus preserved him from eternal death. St. Simon Stock died at Bordeaux in 1265.

Feast Day of Saint Simon Stock
The Feast Day of Saint Simon Stock is July 16. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Simon Stock

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Simon Stock
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
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  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Simon Stock - July 16
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 1265
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Simon Stock
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Hermit
 
 

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Saint Simon Stock