✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: February 19

St. Conrad of Piacenza

Hermit · 1290–1354

Patron of Against hernias

A nobleman whose careless hunting fire burned the countryside; when an innocent man was condemned for it, Conrad confessed, gave away his fortune in restitution, and became a hermit.

His hunt set a forest ablaze and nearly hanged an innocent man — so he gave away everything he owned to make it right and lived the rest of his life as a penitent.

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