Today, 12 June, is the feast of ...
* Basilides and companions, martyrs (third century?)
- it seems that the stories of these martyrs were somehow brought
together from several different sources; Basilides was buried by the
fourth milestone of the Via Aurelia
* Antonina, martyr (304?)
- her tortures are quite differently described in various
accounts; claimed as patron or native of Bithynia, Galicia and Aegean
island of Cea
* Onophrius (400?)
- a hermit of the Egyptian desert
- is this the saint whose hair was so long that he didn't need to
wear clothes?
* Ternan, bishop (fifth or sixth century)
- one of the earliest bishops of the Picts; Aberdeen Breviary
states he was a native of the Mearns, and was baptized by St Palladius
* Peter of Mount Athos (eighth century?)
- Peter lived on the slopes of this mountain long before there
were any monasteries; a vision of the Virgin Mary led him to live there as
a hermit
* Leo III, pope (816)
- in 799 he survived an attack of in which conspirators tried to
cut out his tongue
- crowned Charlemagne on 25 December 800
* Odulf (c. 855)
- missionary of Friesland
* Eskil, bishop and martyr (c. 1080)
- after breaking up a pagan feast, the pagans up and killed him;
buried in town named after him, Eskilstuna
* Stephen Bandelli (1450)
- in 1487, the image of this one-time professor at Pavia and
renowned preacher was seen in the sky over the town where he had died,
Saluzzo
* John of Sahagun (1479)
- supposedly poisoned by a woman whose affair with a local
dignitary of Salamanca was broken up by John
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George Ferzoco
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