The Sanctoral Cycle

An instructive "vita" today on the virtue of obedience taken from Engelbert's Lives of the Saints

Blessed Gauthier of Bruges (1307)

"This learned Franciscan was named bishop of Poitiers against his will. As such, he had to excommunicate Bertrand de Got, bishop of Bordeaux, who had disobeyed pontifical orders and remained obdurate. When the latter became pope under the name of Clement V, he deposed Gauthier, who humbly submitted and committed himself at his death to the judgement of God. Clement V repented of his conduct after the death of the servant of God, and had a tomb built for him in the church of the friars minor at Poitiers."