medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (4. August) is the feast day of:
Ia (d. c. 360) One of the many victims of Sassanian Persian
persecution under the unfortunately long-lived Sapur II. Ia's legend
tells that she was a Greek who had converted some Persian women. She
was arrested and imprisoned for some time, with spells of torture,
before finally being decapitated. According to tradition, there were
at least 9000 victims of this persecution.
Molua (d. 608) Molua (or Lughaidh, Lugaid) was an Irishman from
Ossory. A late hagiographical account tells that he was a herdsboy
until he worked so many miracles that he was sent off to be a monk in
Wales. He founded a number of monasteries, and legend reports that
he went to Rome to present his monastic rule to Gregory the Great for
approval. The best part of the legend tells that M. never killed a
living thing and the birds wept when he died.
William Horn (blessed) (d. 1540) William Horn was the last of the
English Carthusian martyrs who refused to accept Henry VIII's Act of
Succession. He was a laybrother, locked up in the Marshalsea prison
under atrocious circumstances with nine of his brethren. The others
died, but WH survived, was imprisoned in the Tower of London for
three years, and was finally hanged, drawn, and quartered. He was
beatified in 1886.
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