medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (9. August) is the feast day of:
Emygdius (Emidius) (d. c. 303) I include this saint
in honor of my old
home, California, where there is an active cult of
Emygdius as a protector
against earthquakes. E. is supposed to have been a
martyr at Ascoli Piceno
(Italy).
Samuel of Edessa (d. c. 496) A priest of Edessa
(Syria; now Urfa, Turkey),
Samuel was an active writer against the Nestorians
and Monophysites. He
was author of one of the "Three Chapters" that
sparked the sixth-century
"Three Chapters Controversy."
Bandarid (Banderik) (d. 566) Bandarid was bishop of
Soissons from 540 on.
He was banished for seven years by Frankish king
Clothar I; legend says
that he spent the time working anonymously in the
garden of a monastery in
Britain-he was then discovered and triumphantly
recalled to his office.
Julian, Marcian, and companions (d. 730) The first
heroes of the
iconoclast struggle. One of Byzantine emperor Leo
III's first public acts
when he started an iconoclast policy was to order
the removal of the great
icon of Christ over the gate of the imperial palace.
A soldier was sent to do the dirty deed, but was
lynched by a group of about ten citizens-Julian,
Marcian, etc. They were seized and executed.
Amadeus of Portugal (d. 1482) Amadeus was a
Portuguese noble who joined
the Hieronomyte order and then the Franciscans,
eventually becoming a lay
brother at Assisi. After a time as a hermit, A.
founded several reformed
friaries, which in the sixteenth century were joined
to the Franciscan
Observants.
Dr. Phyllis Jestice
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