medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (14. March) is the feast day of:
Boniface Curitan (d. c. 660) Boniface may have been a Roman and was
certainly bishop of Ross in Scotland. He did missionary work among
the Picts and Scots and is credited with founding many churches and
introducing Roman customs.
Eutychius the Patrician and Companions (d. 741) A large group of
Christians, massacred at Carrhae (upper Mesopotamia) by Muslim Arabs.
Matilda of Germany (d. 968) Matilda was the wife of King Henry I of
Germany. She was a great monastic founder and a model royal widow,
founding the great royal nunnery of Quedlinburg and devoting her 30
years of widowhood to praying for her husband's soul and being a
generally sweet person (well, she seems to have instigated a civil
war by favoring her younger son (Henry of Bavaria) over her elder son
(Otto I), but. . .).
Arnold de'Cattenei (d. 1254) Arnold was a Paduan who became abbot of
the Benedictine monastery of St. Justina in that city. But Italian
power politics caught up with A.: the ruler of the city persecuted
him for years, then chained him up in prison, where he died eight
years later. He is venerated as a martyr.
Eve of Liege (blessed) (d. c. 1266) Eve was a hermit at Liege. When
Juliana of Cornillon died, Eve took over the task of campaigning for
the creation of the feast of Corpus Christi. E's cult was confirmed
in 1902.
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Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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