medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (14. March) is the feast day of:
Leobinus (Lubin) (d. 556) Leobinus was born near Poitiers to a peasant
family. He became a hermit at a young age, and in time a priest and abbot
of Brou. Finally he was elected bishop of Chartres.
Diaconus (6th cent.) Diaconus was, appropriately, a deacon. He served the
church of Marsi (central Italy). Gregory the Great reports that D. and two
monks were killed by Arian Lombards.
Boniface Kyrin of Ross (d. c. 630) Boniface was a Roman. He appears to
have been moved to imitate the missionary venture of Augustine of
Canterbury (at least according to legend), and went to Scotland. There he
evangelized several provinces, introducing Roman practices. According to
the Aberdeen Breviary, B. founded 150 churches and oratories in Scotland,
and his relics worked many miracles after his death.
Matilda of Saxony (d. 968) Matilda was a daughter of the count of
Westphalia and became the wife of King Henry I of Germany. According to
her two vitae, she was pious in every way proper to a tenth-century
queen---humble, a peacemaker, generous to the poor and sick, etc. After
she was widowed, she also paid for the construction of several churches and
four monasteries, including the great imperial convent of Quedlinburg.
Arnold of Padua (blessed) (d. 1254) Arnold was a noble who became a monk
and then abbot at the Benedictine monastery of St. Justine, Padua.
However, he gained the enmity of the local tyrant, Ezzelino da Romano, who
persecuted Arnold for years, and finally imprisoned him in chains for the
last eight years of his life.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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