medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (10. October) is the feast day of:
Gereon (3rd cent.?) Gereon's legend links him to the Theban Legion. He
DOES seem to have been a soldier (perhaps two soldiers), martyred at Xanten
and/or Bonn. In the developed legend, he was one of 678 soldiers martyred
near Cologne.
Victor of Xanten and companions (d. c. 286?) Also connected to the legend
of the Theban Legion, Victor and 330 other soldiers are supposed to have
been martyred at Xanten.
Maharshapur (d. 421) Maharshapur was a Persian nobleman, caught in Shah
Varanes V's persecution of Christians. After three years' imprisonment he
was shut up in a small cell to die of starvation.
Patrician (5th cent.) Patrician was a northern British bishop who fled
from Saxon invaders and ended up settling on the Isle of Man.
Cerbonius (d. c. 580) Cerbonius was a Roman African bishop who moved to
Italy to escape Vandal persecution. He became bishop at Populonia
(Tuscany)---only to have the Lombards (also Arians) exile him to Elba.
Paulinus of York (d. 644) Paulinus was a monk of Rome, sent to England in
601 as part of the reinforcements shipped off to Augustine of Canterbury.
He worked for 24 years in Kent, but was then sent on as bishop of York when
the Kentish princess Ethelburga married Edwin of Northumbria. Paulinus had
to flee in the anti-Christian reaction after Edwin's death and ended up as
bishop of Rochester.
Alderic of Sens (d. 841) Alderic was a monk of Ferriers. He became head
of the imperial palace school and then archbishop of Sens in 828. He was
an important transmittor of Carolingian renaissance ideas, strongly
encouraging ecclesiastical education.
Paulinus of Capua (d. 843) Paulinus was an English pilgrim. On his way to
Jerusalem he stopped at Capua---and the inhabitants forced him to become
their bishop. To continue the refugee theme of the day, he died as a
refugee after Capua was destroyed by Muslim raiders.
Hugh of Macon (blessed) (d. 1151) Hugh became a monk of Citeaux under
Stephen Harding. He went on to be abbot of Pontigny in 1114, and in 1137
was consecrated bishop of Auxerre, the first Cistercian bishop.
Daniel of Belvedere & companions (d. 1227) This was a group of
missionaries, six in all, sent to Morocco to convert Muslims. They got to
Ceuta, preached in public, and were promptly arrested. At first they were
imprisoned as insane. But then they were given a choice of converting to
Islam or dying; when they refused they were decapitated. They were
canonized in 1516
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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