Today, 24 May, is the feast of ...
* Donatian and Rogation, martyrs (289 or 304)
- natives of Nantes, where they are popularly known as 'les
enfants nantais'
* Vincent of Lerins (c. 445)
- known for his *Commonitorium* against heresies, he has at times
been credited with authorship of the Athanasian Creed
* Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury (1089)
- received no public cultus, but frequently called 'beatus'
* David I of Scotland (1153)
- born about 1080, the youngest of six sons of Scottish king
Malcolm Canmore and queen, St Margaret; became king in 1124; Aelred of
Rievaulx, who as a young man served as master of David's household, wrote
his *vita*, in which David is criticized for failure to control savagery
of Scottish troops at the Battle of the Standard
* Nicetas of Pereaslav, martyr (1186)
- converted from collecting taxes to wearing metal shirts and
living on a pillar; his metal shirt became so worn it resembled silver,
and robbers, trying to take this 'silver', killed him
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George Ferzoco
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