Procopius of Sázava [SEP] canonization status
Procopius of Sázava
Saint Procopius of Sázava (died March 25, 1053) was a Bohemian canon and hermit, canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic church in 1204.
Little about his life is known with certainty. According to hagiographical tradition, he was born in 970, in a Central Bohemian village near Kouřim. He studied in Prague and was ordained there.
He was married and had a son, called Jimram (Emmeram), but later entered the Benedictine order, presumably at Břevnov Monastery, and
) in the 2000s.
Hugo Fabricius, a monk at Sázava, wrote a new life of St. Procopius in the 18th century, "Požehnaná Památka Welikého Swěta Diwotworce Swatýho Prokopa" ("The Blessed Legacy of the Great Miracle Worker of the World, St. Procopius").
The "Cave of St. Procopius", the supposed site of his original hermitage, was discovered by Method Klement OSB in the 1940s.
Memory.
Numerous churches in Bohemia are dedicated to him, and many Baroque-era statues