Interim Saints - June 8th
CALLIOPE, martyr (2nd cent.)
This martyr, according to the Greek Menæa, was as beautiful in soul as
she was in body. Her breasts were cut off, she was dragged over
potsherds, then salt was rubbed into her wounds, and they were fretted
with hair-cloth. As none of these tortures shook her constancy, her
head was struck off.
MAXIMUS, bishop of Aix (2nd or 3rd century)
S. Maximus, it is pretended, was one of the disciples of our Blessed
Lord, who founded the bishopric of Aix, in Provence. There is not,
however, the smallest evicence to support this assertion.
THE FOUR MARTYRS OF GERONA (about A.D. 300)
The following story is devoid of foundation in truth.
[So I won't tell it - ed.]
MEDARD, bishop of Noyon (A.D. 545)
To S. Medard is attributed the institution of the festival of the Rose
at Salency, where he is said to have charged his family estate with a
sum of money to be given annually with a crown of roses to the most
virtuous girl in the village. He is said to have accorded the first
crown to his sister . . .
Obviously a most impartial judge.
CHLODULF, bishop of Metz (about A.D. 692)
Chlodulf for some time filled several offices of responsibility in the
palace of the king of Austrasia, and he acquired such renown for his
probity and virtue, that, on the death of Godo, bishop of Metz, in
spite of his resistance, he was elected in his place by the clergy and
people.
WILLIAM, archbishop of York (A.D. 1154)
Disowned by Eugenius III on the advice of the odious Bernard of
Clairvaux, but confirmed in office by Anastasius IV, he was returning
to York, where the people greeted him with great enthusiasm, when the
Ouse Bridge collapsed, precipitating several persons into the river.
Fortunately they were preserved from drowning; the cynical say this
was because the river is not very deep, or because they could swim;
but we, the faithful, know that it was through the prayers of St
William.
William the not very saintly, of York.
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