medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (17. February) is the feast day of:
Julian of Caesarea (d. 308) Eusebius tells that Julian was a Cappodocian
who was visiting Caesarea (Palestine) when Pamphilus and his ten companions
were being martyred. He offered himself to the executioners to make the
number up to an even dozen, and was slowly roasted to death.
Guevrock (Gueroc) (6th cent.) Guevrock was from Wales. He accompanied St.
Tadwall from there to Brittany, and succeeded him as abbot of Locquirec.
Fintan of Clonenagh (d. 603) Fintan was from Leinster. He became a hermit
at Clonenagh (Co. Laois) and founded a monastery of such austerity that,
according to legend, the other monasteries in the area complained.
Finan of Lindisfarne (d. 661) Finan was an Irish monk of Iona who
succeeded Aidan as bishop of Lindisfarne. He continued Aidan's missionary
work in Northumbria, also sending missionaries to Mercia and East Anglia.
Constabilis (d. 1124) Constabilis, from Lucania, was a child oblate at the
moanstery of Cava near Salerno. In 1122 he became abbot, and is credited
with founding the town of Castelabbate.
Evermod (d. 1178) Evermod was a disciple of Norbert of Xanten. He became
superior of the Premonstratensian canonry of Gottesgnaden in 1134 and of
Magdeburg in 1138, going on from there to evangelize the Elbe Slavs. E.
became bishop of Ratzeburg in 1154, building up a Christian flock by
inviting Saxon colonists to dispossess the Slavs in the area.
Andrew Conti of Anagni (d. 1302) Andrew was a noble of Anagni, a newphew
of Pope Alexander IV. He became a Franciscan lay brother and after that a
hermit in the Apennines, refusing to be made a cardinal. A. was so
troubled by demons that his is invoked against them (!) His cult was
confirmed in 1724.
Servite founders (13th-early 14th cent.) A group of Florentine noblemen
withdrew to a hermitage on Mt. Senaria, where they founded the order of
"Servants of Mary" (Servites). The order was approved in 1304. The seven
founders were canonized as a job lot in 1887.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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