medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (19. November) is the feast day of:
Barlaam (4th cent.) Barlaam was a martyr of Antioch. Legend tells
that he was a peasant arrested for his faith. When the judge
couldn't force B. to sacrifice to the state gods (thus runs the
story), he had B's hand held over red-hot coals and then sprinkled
hot incense on the hand---assuming that the heat would make B. shake
his hand. But B. didn't flinch and held his hand steady until it was
burned to a crisp.
Nerses (d. 343) Nerses was bishop of Sahgerd in Persia. He and his
disciple Joseph were arrested during Sapur II's persecution and
beheaded.
Ebbe of Minster-in-Thanet (d. 694) Ebbe was a Kentish princess,
married off to a minor king, and producer of several saintly
offspring. When her cousin Egbert became king of Kent, he murdered
E's brothers as potential threats to his throne. Then he felt sorry
and offered E. weregeld for her brothers in the form of as much land
as her tame doe could run around. She got a large chunk of Thanet
that way and founded a convent there, which she joined as abbess when
her husband died.
A modern beatus: Salvatore Lilli (d. 1895) Lilli was a Franciscan
missionary in Jerusalem and then Armenia. He seems to have done
really exemplary work, founding schools and clinics, building homes,
teaching sanitation methods, etc. But in 1895 the area where L. was
working was occupied by the Turks. They arrested L. along with 7
other Franciscans; they wouldn't convert and were killed. L. was
beatified in 1982 as one of the martyrs of Armenia.
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