Today, 27 May, is the feast of ...
* Restituta of Sora, virgin and martyr (271?) - a Roman noble, she was
taken to Sora by an angel; there, she worked miracles and converted many
to Christianity
* Julius and companions, martyrs (302?) - Julius and his fellow martyrs
were all soldiers who refused to give up their faith
* Eutropius, bishop of Orange (c. 476) - after dissolute youth and a more
sober marriage, was widowed and joined the clergy; Sidonius Apollinaris
was one of his correspondents
* John I, pope and martyr (526) - imprisoned during reign of Theodoric, in
Ravenna
* Bede, doctor (735) - venerable; much of what we know of him is in
Cuthbert's account of his last hours, and in the closing chapter of his
own ecclesiastical history of the English - the only Englishman in Dante's
*Paradiso*
* Melangell, or Monacella, virgin (?) - earliest extant vita is from the
early sixteenth century - abbess for 37 years, during which time all could
find sanctuary at the site of her community -- particularly hares, known
as 'Melangell's lambs'
Carolyn Muessig
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