TomThumb
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 Saint of the Day: Thursday, August 30, 2007
St. Pammachius
Feastday: August 30
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=807
Of the Furii family, Pammachius was a Roman senator and a friend of St. Jerome. Pammachius married St. Paula's daughter Paulina in 385. His denunciation to Pope St. Siricius of Jovinian, who was later condemned at a synod at Rome, and by St. Ambrose at Milan, caused Jerome to write a treatise against Jovinian's teachings that Pammachius criticized, which led to two more letters from Jerome defending his treatise. Paulina died in 397, and Pammachius devoted the rest of his life to study and charitable works. With Fabiola he built a hospice at Porto for poor and sick pilgrims coming to Rome (the first such in the West) and had a church in his house (a site now occupied by the Passionists' SS. Peter and Paul Church). He often tried unsuccessfully, to tone down the polemics of some of Jerome's controversial treatises and particularly the bitterness of Jerome's controversy with Rufinus. Pammachius urged Jerome to translate Origen's DE PRINCIPIIS, and Pammachius' letter to tenants on his estate in Numidia in 401 to abandon Donatism evoked a letter of thanks from St. Augustine. Many of St. Jerome's commentaries on Scripture were dedicated to Pammachius. After his wife's death Pammachius built, in conjunction with St. Fabiola, a hospice for poor strangers at Porto, at the mouth of the Tiber. The site has been excavated, and the excavations have disclosed the plan and the arrangement of this only building of its kind. Rooms and halls for the sick and poor were grouped around it. Pammachius died in Rome. His feast day is August 30.
Last edited by TomThumb, Aug/29/2007, 8:28 pm
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