medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (9. June) is the feast day of:
Vincent of Agen (d. c. 300) Vincent was a deacon of Agen (Gascony).
He was arrested for disrupting a druidical ceremony (? I thought the
Romans had outlawed the druids centuries before this) and the
governor had him executed.
Pelagia of Antioch (d. c. 311) Pelagia was a 15-year-old Antiochene
girl who committed martyrdom by throwing herself of the roof (to
protect her virginity, of course) when soldiers came to arrest her as
a Christian.
Ephraem (d. c. 373) Ephraem was a Mesopotamian Christian. He became
head of the school in Nisibis and got a reputation as a holy man.
But Nisibis was ceded to the Persians in 363---at a time when good
Zoroastrian Persians didn't like Christians. So E. moved to a cave
near Edessa. He spent the rest of his life writing---voluminously.
He wrote against heretics, on the Last Judgment, popularized the use
of hymns in public worship, etc. In 1920 he was declared a doctor of
the church, the only Syrian on the list.
Columcille (Columba) (d. 597) One of the great saints of the Irish
church. He spent the first half of his life as a monk and monastic
founder in Ireland, but then in 563 left in peregrinatio---legend
tells that he got into a dispute with St. Finnian because he
surreptitiously made a copy of Finnian's Vulgate psalms, which
culminated in a very bloody war, which C. then repented, vowing to
leave Ireland and never return. C. and 12 companions founded the
monastery of Iona off the coast of Scotland, which became the most
important center for evangelization of Scotland and northern England.
Adomnan's vita of C. is one of the earliest extant works of Irish
hagiography.
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