Today, 3 February, is the feast of ...
* Blaise, bishop of Sebastea, martyr (316?)
- among his miracles, he once healed a boy who had a
fishbone stuck in his throat; this gave rise to his
patronage of those who suffer from maladies affecting the
throat
* Laurence, bishop of Spoleto (576)
- a foreigner, the people of Spoleto refused to admit him
to their city; but after Laurence prayed for a sign of
God's will in the matter, the city gates flew open on their
own
* Ia, virgin (sixth century)
- sailed miraculously from Ireland to Cornwall, where she
built a hermitage; that place is now known as Saint Ives
* Laurence, archbishop of Canterbury (619)
- effected the conversion of king Edbald
* Werburga, virgin (c. 700)
- left her royal privileges behind in order to join the
convent of Ely; later, she became superintendent of all
houses of religious women in Mercia
* Anskar, archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen (865)
- a pupil of Paschasius Radbertus, he became a monk before
devoting himself to preaching and organizing missions to
convert the people of northern Germany and Scandinavia
* Margaret 'of England', virgin (1192)
- of English descent but really a noble from Hungary,
Margaret was a pilgrim who travelled widely before settling
at the Cistercian convent of Seauve Benite
* Simon of Cascia (1348)
- as a youth he was a follower of Angelo Clareno, but he
became and Augustinian, with great fame as a preacher; he
also wrote a treatise, *De gestis Domini Salvatoris*, which
some scholars have claimed to be a source of some of
Luther's theological tenets
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
phone: +44(0)117-928-8168
fax: +44(0)117-929-7850
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