Today, 27 August, is the feast of ...
* Marcellus and companions, martyrs (287?) - died at Tomi, on the Black Sea
(where Ovid ended his days); when bears were let loose, they would not harm
these people, and it was not possible to set a fire to burn them... so that
got their heads chopped off
* Poemen, abbot (fifth century) - even though he would go for up to a week
without food, he told his fellow Egyptian desert hermits that they should
eat: 'We fast to control our bodies, not to kill them', he would say
* Caesarius, bishop of Arles (543) - earliest writer to show familiarity
with the Athanasian creed, Caesarius was a renowned preacher
* Syagrius, bishop of Autun (600) - entertained Augustine and companions on
their way from Rome to England
* Hugh of Lincoln (1255) - this is 'Little' Hugh, a boy supposedly killed by
Jews
Two years ago Christoph Cluse wrote:
On Hugh of Lincoln, see the seminal account by Gavin I. Langmuir, 'The
Knight's Tale of Young Hugh of Lincoln,' *Speculum* 47 (1972), 459-482. On
his shrine, David Stocker, 'The shrine of little St. Hugh,' in: *Medieval
Art and Architecture at Lincoln Cathedral*, eds. T. A. Heslop, V. A.
Sekules, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 8, for
1982 (London 1986), pp. 109-117. The ballads of little St. Hugh have been
treated by Mary Diane McCabe, 'A Critical Study of Some Traditional
Religious Ballads' (unpublished M.A. thesis, Durham/UK, 1980), pp. 277-298,
397-430.
And then John Arnold added:
Dear All see also J.M. McCulloh, 'Jewish Ritual Murder: William of Norwich,
Thomas of Monmouth and the early Dissemination of the Myth', Speculum 72: 3
(1997) - dealing obviously with a different boy, but suggesting some
alterations to Langmuir's overall thesis about medieval antisemitism.
Thanks guys!
* Angelo of Foligno (1312) - that's 'Angel_O_', not the more famous Angela
of the same place; he was an Augustinian friar, close to saints Giovanni
Buono and Nicola da Tolentino
* Margaret the Barefooted, widow (1395) - even while married, she would walk
around her native San Severino (in the March of Ancona) barefoot, like the
beggars she liked to help
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