St Alexius The Man of God | Gold and Silver foiled lithography print | Size: 5 1/4"x4 1/2"

St Alexius The Man of God

The particular St Alexis whom the Alexian Brothers adopted as their principal patron is the St Alexis who lived around 410-460 AD. His relics, with those of St Boniface, rest in the Church of St Boniface and Alexis on the Aventine Way in Rome. His Feastday is July 17^th.

Being one of the very early saints many legends have grown up around the life of St Alexis and were much embelished in the Middle Ages. Legends, however, are not just fairy tales; they can be an extremely useful art-form or media for conveying some special truth or quality about a person in a symbolic way which illustrates a message about the person which ordinary language or narration would fail to convey.