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We've had quite a number of feasts recently which commemorate characters assigned to the first or early second century. Can someone give us a quick guide to what has been published on these characters as a group or groups?
Graham
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Dr Graham Jones
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From: Phyllis Jestice [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 13. July
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (13. July) is the feast day of:
Silas (1st cent.) Silas was a Jerusalemite early disciple who joined Paul
on his second missionary journey. Legend reports that he was first bishop
of Corinth.
Myrope (d. c. 251) Myrope was a native of Chios in the Aegean. She buried
some Christians who had been killed in the Decian persecution, most notably
St. Isidore. Caught at it, she was flogged and died of her injuries in
prison.
Dogfan (5th cent.) Dogfan was a kinsman of St. Brychan. He founded a
church at Llanrhaiadr yn Mochnant in Wales. He was killed near Cardiff by
non-Christian Saxons.
Eugenius of Carthage and companions (d. 505) Eugenius became bishop of
Carthage in 481 but he and many of his flock were almost immediately driven
to flight in the desert by the Arian Vandals who ruled North Africa. E.
was allowed to return to his see twice, but he and two companions were
finally exiled to Albi (Gaul) in 496. They were venerated as martyrs, but
weren't actually killed.
Mildred of Thanet (d. c. 700) The subject of a popular medieval cult,
Mildred was a daughter of St. Ermenburga. She was educated in Francia at
Chelles and on her return became a nun at Minster in Thanet, eventually
becoming abbess. In 1030 the monks of St. Augustine's, Canterbury stole
Mildred's relics; after the Reformation they were taken to Deventer
(Netherlands).
Henry (Heinrich) II (d. 1024) Henry was duke of Bavaria and then became
king of the Germans in 1002 after Otto III died; he became emperor in 1014.
H. relied heavily on bishops and monasteries for his government, besides
being a genuine reformer (often to the extreme disgruntlement of monks whom
he reformed, who thought they had been doing just fine before). He and his
wife Kunigunde also founded the see of Bamberg out of H's own patrimony.
His greatest claim to sanctity, though, is the claim that he and Kunigunde
had a chaste marriage (a story that apparently started because they failed
to have children). H. was canonized in 1146.
Jacopo della Voragine (d. 1298) Jacopo became a Dominican at a young age,
served as provincial superior of Lombardy 1267-1286, and became archbishop
of Genoa in 1292. He is mostly known today as the author of the Golden
Legend, that great compilation of weird and wonderful stories about saints.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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