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Sunday, 8 May is the feast day of:
Victor Maurus (d. c. 303) One of the patrons of Milan, Victor Maurus
was a Mauretanian who converted to Christianity at a young age. As
an old man he was arrested as a Christian, tortured, an decapitated.
Gibrian (d. c.515) Legend tells that Gibrian was an Irish priest who
led his six brothers and three sisters to Brittany, where all ten of
them became hermits.
Desideratus (d. c. 550) The brother of SS Desiderius and Deodatus,
Desideratus (aka Désiré) was a courtier at the court of Merovingian
King Clothar. He took a strong stand against heresy and simony, and
in 541 was made bishop of Bourges.
Boniface IV (d. 615) Boniface may have been a monk in Rome before he
entered papal service. He was elected pope in 608. He's known in
the annals of history for converting the Pantheon into a Christian
church and for his correspondence with St. Columbanus, in which the
Irish saint expressed himself quite freely on the subject of papal
theology.
Benedict II (d. 685) Benedict was a native Roman, elected pope in
683. He wasn't consecrated for almost a year, because of the need to
get imperial permission. In the little bit of pontificate that was
left to him he got an imperial decree allowing the exarch of Ravenna
to confirm papal elections in future. He also restored several Roman
churches and converted a major monothelite leader back to orthodoxy.
Wiro, Plechelm, and Oteger (d. c. 739) These three Northumbrians
went off to be missionaries on the continent. Wiro and Plechelm were
consecrated as regionary bishops. They worked in the lower Meuse
valley.
Innocent V (blessed) (d. 1276) Peter of Tarentaise became a
Dominican at the age of 16, studied theology, and became a professor
at Paris. He was famous as a preacher and a theologian, and soon
rose first in the order's hierarchy and then in the church more
widely. P became archbishop of Lyons in 1272 and a cardinal in 1273.
In 1276 he became the first Dominican pope, taking the name Innocent
V. Innocent had a five-month pontificate, mostly working to
reconcile all the people who liked to fight all the time in Italy in
the thirteenth century. Innocent's cult was confirmed in 1898.
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