Desideratus (? - 550) was a French saint in the Christian church from Soissons. Unusually, he came from a family of saints, as his father, Auginus, mother, Agia, and brother, Deodatus, were all canonized. The parents taught the two boys to care for the poor and to give away all of their material possessions to aid others. Events By Place Byzantine Empire Silk reaches Constantinople (approximate date). ... In traditional Christian iconography, Saints are often depicted as having halos. ... Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ... Soissons is a town and commune in the Aisne département, Picardie, France, located on the Aisne River, about 60 miles northeast of Paris. ... In Hindu and Sikh traditions, the term Agya or Agia refers to commandment or order [1] of a spiritual Master or guru to a disciple[2] [3]. Other uses Agya chakra or third eye chackra at the eye-brow junction. ... Deusdedit (literally god-given; its variant is Deodatus) is the name of several important ecclesiastical figures of the Middle Ages: Pope Adeodatus II (died 676) several Saints, including: Deusdedit of Canterbury (Adeodatus) (died 664) Pope Deusdedit I (died 618) Deodatus of Blois (Dié) Deodatus of Lagny Deodatus of Nevers (Deodatus... Icon of St. ...

Desideratus worked as a secretary for King Clotaire and sought to eliminate simony and heresy in Clotaire's lands. According to legend, Desideratus wanted to retire to a monastery but served Clotaire in order to put the needs of others ahead of himself. He was made Bishop of Bourges in 541 and served until his death. At the fifth Council of Orleans and second Council of Auvergne he combated Nestorianism. He died on May 8, 550. May 8th is his feast day in the west. Chlothar I (or Chloderic, Chlothachar, Chlotar, Clothar, Clotaire, Chlotochar, or Hlothar, giving rise to Lothair; 497 – 561), called the Old (le Vieux), King of the Franks, was one of the four sons of Clovis. ... Simony is the ecclesiastical crime and personal sin of paying for offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church, named after Simon Magus, who appears in the Acts of the Apostles 8:18-24. ... The Archdiocese of Bourges is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. ... Events January 1 - Flavius Basilius Junior appointed as consul in Constantinople, the last person to hold this office January 2 - Earthquake strikes Laodicea. ... Nestorianism is the doctrine that Jesus exists as two persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than as a unified person. ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (129th in leap years). ... The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with a saint, and referring to the day as the saints day of that saint. ...

References

• Hoever, Hugo. Lives of the Saints. New York: Catholic Book Publishing, 1977.