medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (28. October) is the feast day of:
Simon and Jude (1st cent.) Apostles, culted together in the West perhaps
because their relics were translated to St. Peter's, Rome together on this
day. Simon was called either the Canaanite of the Zealot in the gospels.
He disappears from history after Pentecost. Traditions about his later
activities includes a possible death in Edessa, but in the western legend
he first preached in Egypt and then joined Jude in Mesopotamia; they went
together to Persia were they were martyred together. Similarly, Jude
(usualy identified with Thaddaeus and the author of the Epistle of Jude) is
little known after Pentecost, except for the martyrdom story I just
mentioned. Jude's special patronage of hopeless causes is modern.
Honoratus of Vercelli (d. c. 410) Honoratus was trained by St. Eusebius,
and followed his master into exile and long wanderings in Egypt,
Cappadocia, etc. Eventually H. returned to the west, where in 396 he
became bishop of his home town of Vercelli at the recommendation of St.
Ambrose.
Abraham of Ephesus (6th cent.) Abraham built the monastery of the
Abrahamites by the Golden Gate at Constantinople, and also a Byzantine
monastery near Jerusalem. In time, he became archbishop of Ephesus, and
was a noted writer on religious topics.
Faro of Meaux (d. c. 675) Faro was a Burgundian who spent some years as
chancellor to the Merovingian Dagobert I. But he had a midlife crisis
(apparently), and his sister Burgundofara (also a saint) persuaded hime to
become a monk. By 637 Faro was bishop of Meaux, an office he held for the
rest of his long life.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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