Today, 23 November, is the feast of ...
* Clement I, pope and martyr (c. 99)
- third successor of Peter, yet a contemporary of his;
famous for a letter (found in some early biblical
manuscripts) he wrote to the Christians of Corinth
* Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium (c. 400)
- gave up a promising career as a lawyer to become a
hermit, but was soon elected to be bishop; often assisted
St Basil the Great, and well known to Sts Gregory of
Nazianzen and Jerome; known for his theological works
defending the divinity of the Holy Spirit
* Gregory, bishop (c. 603)
- a Sicilian, he went on pilgrimage to Palestine, where he
lived as a monk; after ordination, went to Constantinople
and Rome, where he was made bishop of Girgenti (Agrigento);
there, he made enemies, who reportedly placed a woman of
ill repute in his chambers, where she was duly
'discovered'; however, Gregory was cleared of all charges
by the pope
* Columban, abbot of Luxeuil and Bobbio (615)
- considered the greatest of the Irish missionary monks to
the continent; he became a monk in order to escape the
attentions of women; founded his first monastery in the
Vosges, c. 590, then another nearby at Luxeuil; he was
later ordered deported to Ireland, but circumstances
prevented this, and he ended up going to the Alps, then
Milan, where the Lombard king gave him a ruined church and
some land at Bobbio, between Genova and Piacenza
Two years ago Stan Methany helped get rid of the confusion regarding
the actual feast day of Columban:
The last edition of the _Martyrologium Romanum_ (recently reprinted by
the CLV in Rome) lists Columbanus on 21 Nov. However, the current
_Calendarium Romanum Generale_ assigns the feast to 23 Nov. So the
current feast day would be today, 23 Nov. [Just to remind new comers to
the list. The main source of information for the saint postings is
Butler's *Lives of the Saints*. ]
And John Wickstrom added that:
Many, many feasts have changed their dates since the middle
ages, primarily owing to the triumph of the rationalists and modernists at
Vatican II over, in many cases, 1500 years or more of tradition. So what
else is new?
* Trudo or Trond (c. 690)
- preached and founded a monastery and a nunnery in his
native Brabant
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Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
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