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SAINT FULGENTIUS OF ECIJA
San Fulgencio



He was a Spanish Bishop at Visigoth time, brother of Saint Leander, Saint Isidore and Saint Florentina.
Son of nobleman, his parents were exiled to Seville because of their faith and Fulgencio was born there.
His parents entrusted him to Bishop Eterius, Benedictine Father, to be educated within the Christian Faith.
As consequence of this Fulgentius chose monastic life at St. Benedict’s Order in Seville.
He dedicated there to the study of the Sacred Scriptures profitably: he writes comments on the Pentateuch, the Book of Kings, the twelve Minor Prophets, Isaiah, the Psalms and the Gospels. 
He also writes a treatise about the Faith (De Fide), the book “Of mythologies or fictions” and another book of Sermons.
Besides spreading his faith through his written work, he took an active part at the dialectic battle against Arian heresy. 
At the war between kind Leovigild and his son Saint Hermenegild, Fulgentius took side with the last one so he was exiled to Cartagena.
When the Cartagena’s Bishop died, Fulgentius occupied the Episcopal Chair at the request of the king.
He remained eight years at the head of this diocese until the king remembered him to resolve the serious conflicts and dissension existing in Ecija.
As soon as Fulgentius occupied the Episcopal See of Ecija his sweet, indulgent and compassionate disposition made the miracle of break up the irritated hatred there was in Ecija.
  He put in order the priests and monasteries costumes until changing Ecija into a peaceful backwater.
Back again in Cartagena, his days finished there in 658.

His day is celebrated on January the 16th.

SAINT FLORENTINA (ALSO FLORENTIA)

SANTA FLORENTINA


She is the eldest sister of a devoted family, three of her brothers are venerated as Saint Bishops: Saint Isidore (Doctor of Church), Saint Leander and Saint Fulgentius of Ecija.

She consecrated her life to God since she was a girl at VIIth century Spain, becoming what her name means: a perfumed flower sacrificed in sincere adoration; she was the Mother for many nuns, as she founded the Convent of El Valle, the first feminine community in Andalusia.

Her devotion also got perpetuated at the Nunnery of her name in Ecija and in the Berzocana Parish of Plasencia Diocese, where her relics are preserved together with her bother Saint Fulgentius’.



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