Today, 24 June, is the feast of ...
* the birthday of John the Baptist - it's a holiday in Quebec; salut la
bas!
In relation to the feast Butler writes:
St Augustine remarking that the Church celebrates the festivals of
saints on the day of their death, which in the true estimate of things
is their great birthday, their birthday of eternal life, adds that the
birthday of St John the Baptist forms an exception because he was
sanctified in his mother's womb, so that he came into the world
sinless.
* martyrs under Nero (64) - scapegoats for the great fire of Rome
* Simplicius, bishop of Autun (fourth or fifth century) - after his
election to the episcopate, Simplicius and his wife, to prove themselves
to the public, voluntarily submitted to an ordeal by fire
* Bartholomew of Farne (1193) - spent 42 years on this island off the
Northumbrian coast
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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
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