Today, 3 December, is the feast of ...
* Lucius (second century?)
- supposedly was a British king who wrote to Marcus
Aurelius, asking to be made a Christian
* Claudius, Hilaria and companions, martyrs (?)
- the tribune Claudius was drowned in the Tiber; his wife
Hilaria died in prison; his sons and seventy soldiers were
beheaded
* Cassian, martyr (298?)
- while recording the testimony of the trial of St
Marcellus the Centurion, Cassian was so enraged by the
death sentence accorded to Marcellus that he protested,
resulting in his death
* Sola (794)
- an English disciple of St Boniface who became a hermit
near Eichstatt
* Francis Xavier (1552)
- one of the seven men who were the first Jesuits; a
determined diplomat and missionary never too busy to work
miracles (on which, see *Analecta Bollandiana* 16 (1897)
52-63
* * * * * * * *
Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
3 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
fax: +44.117.929.7850
phone: +44.117.928.8168
[log in to unmask]
|