medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today, February 27, is the feast day of:
Baldomerus (d. c660) Baldomerus (Galmier, Baudemir, or even Waldimer) was a
blacksmith (or locksmith) of Lyons. He was very pious and in the habit of
giving everything he had away to the poor. A local abbot offered to take B.
into his monastery of St. Justus; at the monastery, he would tame the wild
birds of the air, saying to them 'Take your refreshment and always bless the
Lord of Heaven'. He is the patron saint of locksmiths.
Alnoth (d. c700) was a cowherd of the convent of Weedon (England). He was
renowned for his holiness and became a hermit in the woods at Stowe near
Bugbrooke. Bandits murdered him.
Luke of Messina (d. 1149) was a monk at what was at the time the leading
Greek-rite house in Roger II's domains, Bartholomew of Simeri's Nea
Hodegetria outside of Rossano in Calabria. At some time before Bartolomew's
death in 1130 Roger asked him to direct the monastery he had been building
since 1122. Bartholomew, who was getting on in years, declined but proposed
Luke instead. Roger seems to have accepted, for shortly before 1130 Luke
crossed the Strait of Messina with a dozen other monks and the material
items (vessels, service books, etc.) required for establishing a functioning
monastery. They found no monks to greet them at the still unfinished complex
but settled in and began work at what under Luke's direction and Roger's
command would, from 1131 on, be the mother house ('mandra') of many Greek
monasteries in Sicily and of a number in Calabria as well. There was already
a small church here, vowed by Roger I in gratitude for his conquest of
Messina and dedicated to the Holy Savior. It became the island's leading
exponent of Greek-language religious culture.
Anne Line, martyr (1601) - killed for providing refuge to Catholic priests.
happy reading,
Terri
--
"It's not the verbing that weirds the language -- it's the renounification."
- Mahk Leblanc
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