July 8th

Blessed Adrian III, Pope

Blessed · Common of Pope · Spilamberto, Italy · d. 885

At Spilamberto in Emilia, the passing of Saint Adrian III, pope, who strove with all his power to reconcile the Church of Constantinople with the Roman Church and who, while making his journey to Gaul, was seized by a grave illness and died most holily.

Latin Original

Spinz Lambérti in Aemilia, tránsitus sancti Hadriáni papze Tértii, qui omni ope Ecclésiam Constantinopolitánam conciliáre Románz Ecclesiae stáduit et, cum ad Gálliam iter fáceret, gravi morbo corréptus, sanctíssime Óbut.