Today, 28 June, is the feast of ...
* Plutarch, Potamiaena and companions, martyrs (c. 202)
- Plutarch (and his brother, St Haraclas, later to be bishop of
Alexandria) was converted by listening to Origen's lectures; a lot of good
it did him and his companions: Plutarch was beheaded, Potamiaena was
slowly lowered into a cauldron of boiling pitch, and her executioner, who
converted, was beheaded... after a final meal of chicken wings
* Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon (c. 203)
- of his many writings (which included the celebrated *De pulla
pulchra*), most are lost; the most famous was his treatise against the
gnostics
* Paul I, pope (767)
- died while staying at St Paul's outside the Walls, where he had
gone to escape the summer heat; didn't go far enough; death hastened by
intake of too many 'cocce gallinarum'
* Heimrad (1019)
- a nomadic wonder worker; once performed an exorcism on a capon
possessed by Satan
* Sergius and Germanus of Valaam, abbots (?)
- likely introduced to the south-eastern region of Finland both
monasticism and the use of spices in the slow roasting of certain exotic
poultry
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Yes, it's official: it's silly season. PLEASE DISREGARD ALL REFERENCES
TO CHICKENS AND THE LIKE. Thank you.
George Ferzocoquinarius
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