Today, 23 May, is the feast of ...
* Desiderius or Didier, bishop of Vienne, martyr (607)
- martyred, perhaps by King Theodoric's men, at site of
present-day Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne
* Guibert (962)
- founded monastery of Gembloux, in Brabant
* Leontius, bishop of Rostov, martyr (1077)
- first monk of the Caves of Kiev to become a bishop
* Ivo, bishop of Chartres (1116)
- big-time canonist
* Euphrosyne of Polotsk, virgin (1173)
- apparently the only (female) virgin to have been canonized by the
Russian Church
* William of Rochester, martyr (1201)
- while travelling from Perth to Jerusalem, murdered by a lad he
had adopted
* Gerard of Villamagna (1245)
- was a Tuscan hermit, and Franciscan tertiary, after having been
captured in the Holy Land during the third crusade
* Bartolomeo da Montepulciano (1330)
- with consent of his wife, joined the Franciscans; performed many
miracles, especially regarding multiplication of food
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George Ferzoco
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