Mass for Jan. 15: St. Paul the First Hermit

Jan 15 2009 12:10 pm

St. Paul, the First Hermit, Confessor
Commemoration of St. Maurus, Abbot
The founder of the eremitical life retired at the age of fifteen into the desert and lived there in the exercise of prayers and penances more than a hundred years.  He died A.D. 343.