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And another six-sainter!!! Are there any seven-sainters somewhere in the
liturgical year, John?
Henk
Today (12. April) is the feast day of:
1) Vissia (?). The early modern tradition of Fermo (FM) in the Marche
records two virgin martyrs of whom nothing of substance is known: St. Sophia
of Fermo (30. April) and today's V. They have very similar baroque
reliquaries containing cranial fragments and at Fermo are now celebrated
jointly on this day along with two other local saints. In the RM, where
they have been since Baronio, each has her own day.
2) Julius I, pope (d. 352). J. became bishop of Rome, his native city, on
6. February 337. For most of his pontificate he was in conflict with Arian
and Arian-leaning bishops, primarily in the East. J. is credited in the
_Liber Pontificum_ with the erection of the church that later became Santi
Apostoli as well as of two buildings bearing the name of Julius: the
_basilica Iulii_, a ceremonial hall later demolished to create space for the
erection of_Aula concilii_ in front of the Lateran palace, and the _titulus
Iulii_, later Santa Maria in Trastevere. During J.'s pontificate, Christmas
came to be celebrated in Rome on 25. December. Today is his _dies natalis_.
He was buried in the cemetery of Calepodius on the Via Aurelia.
3) Zeno of Verona (d. ca. 371). Well educated and seemingly from a
Latin-speaking part of northern Africa, Z. became bishop of Verona in 362.
He is the author of a body of sermons of some literary polish and, as
Verona's principal patron saint, a fixture in the city's historic folklore.
4) Damian of Pavia (d. 697). According to Paul the Deacon (_Historia
Langobardorum_, 6. 4), Damian bishop of Pavia was the author of a highly
praised doctrinal letter sent to Constantinople by a synod of Milan under
its bishop St. Mansuetus in 679 for consideration by the Sixth Ecumenical
Council. Paul's attribution of that letter to D., who at the time was not
yet bishop of Pavia, has been contested but the letter itself survives to
show that, regardless of who actually wrote it, Italy still had polished and
effective writers even in the later seventh century when the general quality
of its surviving literary production is not high.
5) Erkembode (d. 742). E. entered the abbey of Sithiu/St.-Bertin at
today's Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) after 707 and became its abbot in 717.
He is credited both with completing his house's conversion from Columbanian
to Benedictine and with effecting a significant increase in its territorial
holdings. In 723 E. became the fifth bishop of Thérouanne but continued to
hold his abbey in plurality. Today is his _dies natalis_. E.'s brief Vita
(BHL 2599) by a fourteenth-century historian and abbot of St.-Bertin, Jean
LeLong, is refreshingly honest in its avoidance of invention and in its
sketch of the importance of E.'s cult for the history of St Omer's church
dedicated to the BVM, an abbatial possession where E. was buried.
6) Alferius (d. 1050). Today's less well known saint of the Regno was a
noble of the principality of Salerno who in the early years of the eleventh
century founded the initially rupestrian abbey of the Santissima Trinità at
today's Cava de' Tirreni (SA) in coastal Campania. He and his three
immediate successors are all considered saints. Their cults were confirmed
in 1893.
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