Today, 26 May, is the feast of ...
* Quadratus, bishop of Athens (c. 129)
- wrote a treatise (now lost) to emperor Hadrian in defence of
Christians; in it, he claimed to have known persons healed or resurrected
by Jesus
* Priscus or Prix, and companions, martyrs (c. 272)
- during Aurelian persecution, they fled from Besancon to Auxerre,
but were killed there; their bodies were discovered by Germanus in the
early fifth century
* Lambert, bishop of Vence (1154)
- oblate and monk of Lerins before serving as bishop for 40 years
* Eva of Liege, virgin (c. 1265)
- helped institute the feast of Corpus Christi; pope Urban IV sent
her the bull authorizing the feast
* Philip Neri (1595)
- founder of the Oratorians; one of the earliest of its priests
was Baronius, the historian
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George Ferzoco
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