Today, 16 November, is the feast of ...
* Eucherius, bishop of Lyon (449)
- he had two sons, Salonius and Veranus, who both became bishops and
were venerated as saints; he left his family and retired to Lerins
before living as a hermit on the island of Sainte-Marguerite, where
he wrote a book on the solitary life; served as bishop for last
fifteen years of his life
* Afan, bishop (sixth century?)
- known only by a tombstone near Builth Wells in the county of
Brecknock, reading: 'Hic Iacet Sanctus Avanus Episcopus'
* Edmund of Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury (1240)
- as a schoolboy in Oxford, he had a vision of the boy Jesus, who
told him that whoever should before sleeping trace the words 'Jesus
of Nazareth' on his or her forehead should be preserved that night
from sudden and unprepared death: this was supposedly the origin of a
custom of tracing the initials 'INRI' on the forehead while praying;
in the late 1220s, he was commissioned by pope Gregory IX to preach
the crusade against the Saracens; later, as archbishop, he had many
troubles with monks of his diocese as well as with king Henry III,
going into exile in France, where he stayed with Cistercian monks of
Pontigny; canonized in 1246
* Agnes of Assisi, virgin (1253)
- sister of St Claire of Assisi; abbess of convent of Monticelli in
Florence, she supervised many foundations
* Luigi Morbioli (1485)
- after a near-death experience, he changed his lifestyle, left his
wife, stopped curling his hair, and lived as a beggar in Bologna; he
may have become a Carmelite tertiary
* Gratia of Kotor (1508)
- a Dalmatian sailor, he converted after hearing a sermon by the
Augustinian friar, Simon of Camerino
* Lucia da Narni (1544)
- after three years of chaste marriage, she joined a community of
Dominican tertiaries in Rome; she then moved to Viterbo, where she
received the stigmata
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Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
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Bristol BS8 1TB
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