September 24
On this day the Catholic Church remembers
St. Gerard

St. Gerard

bishop and martyr · c. 980 – 1046
Go into all the world and preach the gospel.
— Mark 16:15

A Venetian monk who stopped in Hungary on his way to the Holy Land. King Stephen entrusted him with the education of his son Emeric and later made him Bishop of Csanád. During a pagan uprising he was thrown from a hill in Buda into the Danube. Faith unites us in Central Europe.

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