You're listening to the SSPX Podcast. We're happy to present another installment of true heroes.

Stories of the lives of the saints, delivered by Father Thomas Tam. Father is also put together a

video of each of these episodes. You can see the video at SSPX Podcast.com. Now here's Father Tam.

Behold a great priest who in his days pleased God and was found just.

There was not found the like to him who kept the law of the Most High.

Hello my friends and welcome to true heroes.

Today we are going to talk very briefly about St. Ubald, a bishop of Umbria.

I say very briefly because there doesn't seem to be

much about him.

So it is what it is.

Let us begin his story.

Ubald Baldassini was born in 1084

of a noble family in Gubeo, Italy.

He was orphaned in his youth and was educated by his uncle, the bishop of Gubeo.

Eubald himself was ordained and named a deacon of the cathedral,

and also reformed the canons and then left a few years later to become a hermit.

He was dissuaded from this life as a hermit by Peter of Rimini and returned to Gubio and in

1126 was named Bishop of Perugia, but refused the position.

Two years later, in 1128, he became Bishop of Gubeo.

He truly believed that one must lead by example,

and that the only way that his faithful would have the grace to practice the virtues

is if he himself made them the foundation

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