ON ST. JOHN THE HERMIT, OF RUSELLO IN ABRUZZO OF ITALY,
CommentaryJohn the hermit of Rusello in Abruzzo of Italy (St.)
J. P.
Ferrari in the Catalogue of the Saints of Italy thus praises him at this day: John the hermit of Rusello, a village of Hither Abruzzo, of the diocese of Trivento, among whom he is reported to have led a solitary life and to have shone with miracles, has veneration on this day: whose body is kept there. But in the Catalogue of the Saints who are not in the Roman Martyrology he thus announces him again: At Rusello in Abruzzo, of St. John the hermit. But in the notes he confirms the matter from his Ms. Life, which is kept in the church of Rusello, a village of Abruzzo, of the diocese of Trivento, where he rests and has veneration. Castellan in his universal Martyrology also relates him in this manner: In the diocese of Trivento, on the borders of Abruzzo and of the County of Molise, St. John of Rusello, a solitary. I have sought in vain among us a copy of the Life mentioned above by Ferrari: yet upon the credit of that same hagiologist asserting that this Hermit is honored, I have thought a place should be given him in our Work among the other heavenly ones of the present day, even though from elsewhere he is utterly unknown to me.