Today, 27 May, is the feast of ...
* Restituta of Sora, virgin and martyr (271?)
- a Roman noble, she was taken to Sora by an angel; there, she
worked miracles and converted many to Christianity
* Julius and companions, martyrs (302?)
- Julius and his fellow martyrs were all soldiers who refused to
give up their faith
* Eutropius, bishop of Orange (c. 476)
- after dissolute youth and a more sober marriage, was widowed and
joined the clergy; Sidonius Apollinaris was one of his correspondents
* John I, pope and martyr (526)
- imprisoned during reign of Theodoric, in Ravenna
* Bede, doctor (735)
- venerable; much of what we know of him is in Cuthbert's account
of his last hours, and in the closing chapter of his own ecclesiastical
history of the English
- the only Englishman in Dante's *Paradiso*
* Melangell, or Monacella, virgin (?)
- earliest extant vita is from the early sixteenth century
- abbess for 37 years, during which time all could find sanctuary
at the site of her community -- particularly hares, known as 'Melangell's
lambs' (I don't know why they were called 'lambs' if everyone knew they
were hares; for symbolic purposes, I suppose...)
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George Ferzoco
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