If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you. Hi readers, it seems you use Catholic Online a lot that's great! It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. He would become their parent, their family. All the loved ones who would have protected them and comforted them had been taken by sickness or starvation. He felt a special call to help the orphans who had no one to care for them. Jerome devoted himself to service again - this time, not to the military but the poor and suffering around him. The war may have been over but it was followed by the famine and plague war's devastation often brought. When he finally was able to escape, he hung his metal chains in the nearby church of Treviso - in gratitude not only for being freed from physical prison but from his spiritual dungeon as well.Īfter a short time as mayor of Treviso he returned his home in Venice where he studied for the priesthood. He let go of his worldly attachments and embraced God. There in the dungeon, Jerome decided to get rid of the chains that bound him. When Venice's enemies, the League of Cambrai, captured the fortress, he was dragged off and imprisoned. He didn't care much about God because he didn't need him - he had his own strength and the strength of his soldiers and weapons. Only a short time before he had been a military commander for Venice in charge of a fortress. Jerome Emiliani lay chained in the dark dirty dungeon.

Darkest dungeon all saints day