Today, 13 June, is the feast of ...
* Felicula, martyr (90?)
- offered the choice of marrying someone (Flaccus, rejected suitor
of St Petronilla) or sacrificing to idols, she chose to starve herself,
until eventually tortured and suffocated in the sewers of Rome
* Aquilina, martyr (end of third century?)
- after her execution, it was ordered that her body be mutilated;
but instead of blood, there was milk that flowed from her
* Triphyllius, bishop of Nicosia (c. 370)
- described by Jerome as 'the most eloquent of his age'
* Gerard of Clairvaux (1138)
- Bernard's second and favourite brother, but not among the party
of young relatives and friends who had accompanied Bernard when he entered
Citeaux
* Antony of Padua, doctor (1231)
- a journal, *Il Santo*, is dedicated to the study of Antony
- patron of those seeking lost objects; invoked incessantly by
some who will go unnamed
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