Today, 7 January, is the feast of ...
* Lucian of Antioch, martyr (312)
- his edition of the Bible was among the most widely
respected one before that of Jerome
- in prison, he would answer all questions with the words
'I am a Christian'; while bound and chained on his back, he
consecrated the divine mysteries upon his own chest
* Valentine, bishop (440?)
- according to Arbeo of Freising, the abbot-turned-bishop
Valentine was buried at Mais in the Tirol, translated to
Trent c. 750, and again to Passau in 768
* Tillo or Theau or Tilman (c. 702)
- a Saxon slave in the Low Countries, he was ransomed and
baptized by St Eligius, who eventually ordered Tillo to
convert the area around Iseghem, near Courtrai
* Aldric, bishop of Le Mans (856)
- chaplain and confessor to Emperor Louis at the court of
Aachen
* Reinold (960?)
- a monk at monastery of St Pantaleon in Cologne, he so
enraged the stonemasons working on the place that they
attacked and killed him with their hammers; he has been
honoured as patron of stonemasons
* Canute Lavard, marytr (1131)
- his uncle, king Niels of Denmark, became enraged with
Canute's political alliances, and arranged for his murder,
in the forest of Haraldsted (near Ringsted), by his cousins
- canonized, at the request of his son, Valdemar I of
Denmark, by pope Alexander III in 1169
Four years ago Phil Feller added:
My calendar also gives this day as the feast of someone no doubt dear to
them hearts of many on this list - Raymond of Penafort - whom it lists
as "Patron der Kirchenrechtsgelehrten."
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
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