St Norbert of Xanten

Norbert (whose feast-day is June 6th) was born into an aristocratic family c. 1080 at Xanten on the bank of the Rhine. Ordained a subdeacon, he was summoned to the imperial court, and seemed destined for a glittering ecclesiastical career. His refusal of the bishopric of Cambrai was due not to unworldliness but to the fact that he was even more committed to luxury and pleasure than he was to easy preferment, and it seemed that his weakness of character was set to prevent him not only from being a holy priest but even from being a successful worldly priest. Read more here on the Saints and Blesseds Page...