Today, 4 July, is the feast of ...
* Bertha, widow (c. 725) - built a nunnery at Blangy in Artois
* Andrew of Crete, archbishop of Gortyna (740?) - was unable to speak
until he received his first communion; went on to be a great homilist,
particularly as regards Mary
* Odo, archbishop of Canterbury (959) - made his native East Anglia into
a separate diocese, and encouraged Dunstan's reforms at Glastonbury
* Ulric, bishop of Augsburg (973) - the first person to be canonized by
a pope (of whom we have record); the pope was John XV, the year 993
* William of Hirsau, abbot (1091) - active in a variety of pursuits;
he introduced Cluniac reform to the abbey of Hirsau; there he instituted
the Constitutiones Hirsaugienses which were inspired by the
Consuetudines Cluniacenses; he wrote a treatise on music (De musica) and
one on astronomy (De astronomia); he invented an ingenious clock
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Carolyn Muessig
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