medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (28. June) is the feast day of:
Irenaeus of Lyons (d. 200) Irenaeus was of eastern origin, perhaps born in
Smyrna. He studied in Rome and became a priest at Lyons. Irenaeus was
sent on a mission to the bishop of Rome at the time of the Lyons
persecutions; on his return in c. 178 he became bishop, since the bishop he
had served was one of the martyrs of the persecution. I was an important
theologian. His shrine was kept in the crypt of St-Irenee in Lyons until
it was destroyed by Calvinists in 1562.
Potamiaena (d. c. 202) Potamiaena was a young woman of Alexandria. After
resisting sexual advances, her would-be seducer denounced her to the
authorities as a Christian. She was duly sentenced and executed. The
officer who took her to execution (Basilides) treated her kindly, upon
which Potamiaena said that once she was dead she would supplicate God on
his behalf. Shortly after, Basilides was arrested as a Christian; he was
baptized in prison and martyred soon afterwards.
Austol (6th cent.) Austol (Austell) was the companion and probably godson
of St. Meen, and the two were both active missionaries in Brittany.
Paul I (d. 767) Paul was elected pope in 757, succeeding his brother
Stephen II. He had been his brother's trusted negotiator and continued the
new papal policy of Frankish alliance. Paul's pontificate was mostly taken
up in the struggle to defend the papal state against the Lombard King
Desiderius. He assisted eastern refugees of the iconoclast controversy,
even turning over the monastery he had founded to Greek monks. There is no
evidence of Paul's cult before the fifteenth century, but he is now
recognized as a saint.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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