October 24, 2018

"Choose a saint and create a poem about his or her life."

(Note: All details summarised from Wikipedia)

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Saint Augustine of Hippo who wrote The City of God, On Christian Doctrine and Confessions;

Balthere of Tyninghame (later Baldred) was a Northumbrian hermit and abbot.

Saint Caesarius of Arles was a popular preacher of great fervour and enduring influence;

Saint Damian was an Egyptian soldier and martyr.

Enfleda was a Deiran princess, queen of Northumbria[1] and later, an abbess;

Saint Fachanan (also known as Fachtna), about whom little is known with certainty.

Pope Gabriel I of Alexandria was the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark;

Helena, or Saint Helena the mother of the future Emperor Constantine the Great.

Saint Ignazio da Laconi known as something of a wonder worker;

Jacob de Marchia was an Italian Friar Minor, preacher and writer.

Kassia or Kassiani was an Eastern Roman abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer;

Saint Ladislas has legends depicting him as a pious knight-king.

Magdalene of Canossa formed the Canossian Daughters;

Saint Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán was known for her charitable giving and strict devotion to Jesus Christ.

Saint Odile of Alsace, is a patroness saint of good eyesight;

Pope Paul VI beatified after the recognition of a miracle attributed to his intercession.

Quinidius was a French hermit, deacon, and bishop, who acquired the reputation of being a saint;

Rabanus Maurus Magnentius became archbishop of Mainz in Germany and authored the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis ("On the Natures of Things").

Saint Sabbas the Sanctified, a Cappadocian-Syrian monk, priest and saint, lived mainly in Palaestina Prima;

Tekle Haymanot or Takla Haymanot was an Ethiopian monk who founded a major monastery.

Saint Ulrich of Augsburg was the first saint to be canonized, not by a local authority but by the Pope;

Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a Latin poet and hymnodist.

Werburgh was an Anglo-Saxon princess who became the patron saint of the city of Chester in Cheshire;

Saint Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg is a patron saint of St. Petersburg.

Yaropolk Izyaslavich was a Knyaz (prince) during the eleventh-century in the Kievan Rus' kingdom and the King of Rus;

Zosimas of Palestine, also called Zosima best known for his encounter with St. Mary of Egypt.

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The above are twenty six saints, in alphabetical orders, with details about them taken from Wikipedia  

Considering the topic what I have done is not correct, I cheated though I could justify that since I am not a Christian I really do not know much about Saints. I could have read up on a couple and written a poem but I guess I decided to take the easy path.