Chris Kenny

St Sebaldus

Construction with found twig

£365.00 (framed)

16cm x 20cm

August 19th

Sebaldus was of Franconian origin.

He married a French princess while studying in Paris but abandoned his bride on the wedding night to go on a pilgrimage to Rome.

In Rome he met and worked with the missionaries Willibald and Winibald.

Sebaldus next lived as a hermit in the woodland of Poppenreuth, west of Nuremberg.

When visiting a peasant couple in their cottage in the wood one snowy night, Sebaldus transformed icicles into firewood and saved them all from freezing to death.

Sebaldus was merciful - one day when he was being heckled by a profane blasphemer, the earth opened up to swallow the pagan. As he fell into the hole, the heckler asked for forgiveness and was spat back out.

Sebaldus is the patron saint of cold weather.

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