At Amarante in Portugal, Blessed Gonsalvo, a priest of Braga, who after a long pilgrimage to the Holy Land entered the Order of Preachers, and then withdrawing into a hermitage, saw to the building of a bridge and was of service to the local people by his prayer and preaching.
January 10th
Blessed Gonsalvo of Amarante
Latin Original
Amarántii 1n. Lusitánia, beáti Gundisálvi, presbyteri Bracarénsis, qui post longam in Terram Sanctam peregrinatiónem Ordinem Praedicatórum ingréssus est, deinde in erémum secédens, pontem zedificándum curávit et oratióne praedicationéque áccolis prófuit.