St. Didicus

Catholic Saints

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Saint Didacus of Alcalá (c. 1400–1463), also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother celebrated for his humility, charity, and deep spirituality. Born in San Nicolás del Puerto, Andalusia, he initially lived as a hermit before joining the Franciscan Order. Didacus served as a missionary in the Canary Islands, where he was appointed guardian of the Franciscan community on Fuerteventura, an exceptional role for a lay brother. In 1450, he traveled to Rome for the canonization of Saint Bernardine of Siena and remained there to care for friars afflicted by an epidemic, reportedly performing miraculous healings. After returning to Spain, he spent his remaining years in contemplation and service, passing away in Alcalá de Henares on November 12, 1463. Canonized in 1588, he is the patron saint of the city of San Diego, California, which was named in his honor.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:05.5	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:19.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Catholic Saints podcast.
0:22.5	My name is Taylor Kemp.
0:23.5	I am the vice president of content here at the Augustine Institute.
0:26.8	And with me today is Dr. Scott Heffelfinger, a faculty member and our director of content development.
0:33.1	Scott, welcome to Catholic Saints.
0:34.6	Thank you for having me.
0:35.9	It's great to have you on.
0:37.0	Today we are talking
0:38.1	about St. Didicus, who, up until last week when you told me about doing an episode on St. Didicus,
0:45.6	I don't think I had ever heard of him, nor do I know anything about him. So I am excited to learn
0:50.8	about St. Didicus. When is his feast day? So his feast day is November 7th,
0:57.8	and, you know, with the feast day approaching and realizing I also didn't know hardly anything
1:03.2	about St. Didicus, started to look into it and found some fun, fun things as usual. I mean,
1:09.1	some wonderful things, but then also some fun tidbits that
1:12.0	we can talk about. Fun and wonderful. The saints are fun and wonderful. I think they'd appreciate that
1:16.0	nomenclature. So, okay, so who is St. Dedicus? Where to begin? Yeah, okay, so he's born around the
1:22.4	year 1400 in kind of southwest Spain, getting close to Portugal. It's San Nicolas Spain. And he's
1:31.3	born into a pious family. Okay, so he's got like this good formation. And, you know, they must
1:37.4	have been really pious because he, as a child, he starts to live the aramidical life. He becomes
1:43.4	a child hermit. Now, okay, i don't claim to have sort of like
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